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UPS Worldport

Operating Company · Louisville, KY

UPS's global air-hub package sorting facility at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, the largest package handling facility in the world at 5.2 million sq ft, processing about 2 million packages a day with 13,000 workers.

Founded

1980

Region

Kentucky

Investors

People

About Kentucky

This edition covers the real Kentucky outside the Cincinnati metro's northern border counties, which already have their own dedicated coverage. Louisville, in Jefferson County, is Kentucky's largest city, home to UPS's global air-cargo hub (Worldport) and a real logistics economy built around it. Lexington, in Fayette County, anchors the Bluegrass region's horse and bourbon industries. Frankfort, in Franklin County, is the state capital. Bowling Green, in Warren County, is the only place in the world where the Chevrolet Corvette is manufactured. None of these are the Cincinnati border counties, and this edition doesn't treat them as smaller versions of that edition.

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Region Stats

Total firms 45

VC / investors 7

Companies 28

Schools 10

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