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UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet

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UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet

Starts 04/30/2010ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCENo source gives an exact completion date. UPS's own first-quarter release of 27 April 2010 (the pin's reference) says the second phase of the Worldport expansion opened during the quarter, while PARCEL Industry (28 April 2010) and Wikipedia place the completed expansion in April 2010. Dated to the last day of April 2010 as an estimate; the previous 2010-04-27 was the press release date.^[1]

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

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UPS Completes $1 Billion Expansion of Worldport to 5.2 Million Square Feet