UPS 747-44AF/SCD N572UP (35669/1396) arrives in Anchorage. (Photo by Michael Carter)UPS said it has adopted a plan to cut the carbon dioxide emissions of UPS Airlines by an additional 20% by 2020 to bring its cumulative reduction to 42% compared to 1990 levels. The company said its jet aircraft "are the source of 53%" of UPS's total CO2 output. The delivery giant also operates fleets of trucks and vans and manages warehouses. It added that it intends to achieve the 2020 goal "by investing in more fuel-efficient aircraft types and engines, fuel-saving operational initiatives, and the introduction of biofuels."
Separately, UPS completed the first phase of expansion on its Worldport sorting facility at its Louisville hub. The complex's hourly sorting capacity has been increased 15% to 350,000 packages per hr. The expansion, to be fully completed by next year, will ramp up the high-tech building's hourly capacity to 487,000 pieces. The company said this week that the project is progressing under budget and "UPS will spend less than the anticipated $1 billion for the expansion."
(Air Transport World - ATWOnline)
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