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    1. Global Supply Chain

    Tour UPS Worldport Freight Operations

    Oct. 23, 2014
    Regulations keep many pharmaceutical executives up at night. UPS employees at the company's Worldport air freight hub in Louisville, Ky., stay up to help make product shipments one less thing to worry about.

    UPS invited journalists on a tour of Worldport, one of the largest fully automated package facilities in the world. This operation in Louisville, Ky., turns 130 aircraft a day and processes an average of 1.6 million packages a day. A record 4.2 million packages were processed on Peak Day 2012. Here are some tour highlights.

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    Tom Andel | Editor-in-Chief

    Tom Andel is an award-winning editorial content creator and manager with more than 35 years of industry experience. His writing spans several industrial disciplines, including power transmission, industrial controls, material handling & logistics, and supply chain management.