UPS took delivery of its first 747-400 freighter this morning at the company’s global air hub in Louisville, Ky.
The cargo carrier will use the jet on long-range international routes, it said in a press statement released Thursday.
“As we continue to see strong international growth, the 747-400 is a perfect fit for UPS,” said Mike Eskew, UPS’s chairman and CEO, in a prepared statement. “It has tremendous range and payload capacity so we can satisfy the need of customers to move packages and freight to overseas markets.”
Earlier this year, UPS gave Boeing’s ailing 767 line a boost when it ordered 27 Boeing 767 freighters. A month later, UPS canceled the only remaining order for Airbus’s A380 Freighter as Airbus halted work on the cargo jet in order to focus on its delayed passenger version of the superjumbo jet.
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