UPS's Louisville Worldport hub is UPS's largest package handling facility, employing more than 20,000 people in the region, handling about 300 flights daily and sorting more than 400,000 packages per hour.
November 08, 2025
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operational
Operational capacity and staffing metrics for the UPS Worldport hub in Louisville as reported in 2025.
The UPS package handling facility in Louisville handles about 300 flights daily and sorts more than 400,000 packages per hour.
November 07, 2025
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statistical
Operational throughput metrics for UPS's Louisville hub
UPS Worldport, UPS's primary air hub in Louisville, handles about 300 flights per day and sorts more than 400,000 packages per hour.
November 06, 2025
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operational
Throughput and capacity statistics for UPS's Louisville air sorting hub.
UPS Worldport is UPS's largest shipping hub and is located at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky.
November 05, 2025
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organizational
Identifies the location and status of UPS's primary air cargo hub.
UPS Worldport has the capacity to sort about 416,000 packages per hour.
November 05, 2025
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operational_capacity
Sorting throughput capacity reported for UPS's largest air hub.
UPS shifted its strategic focus toward business-to-business deliveries and away from Amazon-focused deliveries as part of a corporate turnaround.
November 05, 2025
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business_strategy
Describes a change in UPS's delivery focus associated with its turnaround strategy.
UPS Worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is UPS's largest package-handling facility, employs thousands of workers, handles about 300 daily flights, and sorts more than 400,000 packages per hour.
November 04, 2025
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statistical
Operational characteristics of UPS's Louisville package-handling hub.
Bethel functions as a regional hub in western Alaska and is commonly used as a staging point for air shipments and relief supplies to nearby remote villages.
October 21, 2025
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logistics
Role of Bethel in regional supply and relief operations for western Alaska.
The Rafah Crossing is a key border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip that serves as a primary overland gateway for movement of people and delivery of humanitarian supplies.
October 15, 2025
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geographic
Describes the role of the Rafah Crossing in Egypt–Gaza movement and aid delivery.
The United States maintains only a limited number of ground-based launchers capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles.
October 14, 2025
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logistical
Availability of U.S. ground launch systems for Tomahawk missiles affects the feasibility of land-launched Tomahawk strikes.
In 2025, the United Nations reported having about 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid ready to enter the Gaza Strip pending authorization.
October 12, 2025
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temporal
Quantity of humanitarian supplies staged for entry into Gaza subject to clearance.
Aid trucks entering Gaza from Egypt are routed to an inspection area at the Kerem Shalom crossing for screening by Israeli troops.
October 12, 2025
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procedural
Describes the inspection process for cross-border humanitarian deliveries into Gaza.
Military personnel staffing civil-military coordination centers commonly include personnel with expertise in transportation, planning, security, logistics, and engineering.
October 09, 2025
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operational
Lists common skill sets assigned to military components of civil-military coordination efforts.
The United States recorded 1,643 ton-miles of air shipments in October 2024, a metric of the volume of goods transported by air.
October 01, 2024
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temporal
Monthly air shipment volume reported as ton-miles.
Nuclear power systems can provide continuous 24/7 electricity output, which can reduce reliance on fuel resupply and logistical fuel chains for remote or contested military installations.
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operational
Capability and operational advantage of using nuclear energy for sites with limited or contested fuel access.
UPS Worldport, the United Parcel Service (UPS) international air hub in Louisville, Kentucky, is a 5.2 million-square-foot facility.
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infrastructure
Physical size of UPS's main air hub facility.
UPS Worldport processes more than 400,000 packages per hour.
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operational_statistic
Throughput capacity of UPS's main air hub.
UPS Worldport is home to approximately 20,000 UPS workers.
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workforce
Approximate number of employees based at UPS's main air hub.
UPS Worldport supports about 300 daily flights.
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operational_statistic
Typical number of daily flights serving UPS's main air hub.
UPS Worldport in Louisville is United Parcel Service's largest package-handling facility and sorts more than 400,000 packages per hour while employing thousands of workers.
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temporal
Operational capacity and scale of UPS's Louisville sorting hub.
The UPS facility at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport handles roughly 300 flights per day.
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temporal
Daily flight activity associated with the Louisville UPS hub.
United Parcel Service (UPS) operates its largest air cargo hub, called Worldport, in Louisville, Kentucky.
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organizational
Location and name of UPS's primary air cargo hub.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics uses 'ton-miles' as a metric to benchmark the volume of goods transported by air through airports.
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definition
Ton-miles measure freight volume by multiplying weight transported by distance flown.
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is the second-largest cargo hub in the United States.
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ranking
Anchorage serves as a major U.S. air cargo gateway connecting goods internationally.
Cargo (shipping) flights and commercial passenger flights compete for runway access and air traffic control resources at airports, and the intensity of that competition varies by airport.
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operational
Runway and air traffic control capacity are shared resources that can create scheduling and priority conflicts between cargo and passenger operations.