UPS Giving $25,000 to Help Fill Hub

By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio

Apr. 25–DAYTON — United Parcel Service Inc. is giving the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce $25,000 to help it find new uses for the air freight hub UPS will vacate in June at Dayton International Airport.

The Atlanta-based shipper held a symbolic check presentation Monday in a news conference at the Dayton Convention Center.

Chamber President Phil Parker said his organization will use the money to market the hub, which was built to process heavyweight air freight. He said UPS’s contribution was a great help in resources to find a new operator.

UPS acquired the hub in 2004 when it bought Calif.-based CNF Inc.’s Menlo Worldwide Forwarding subsidiary. In February 2005, UPS announced plans to close the hub and move the heavyweight freight business to its Louisville hub.

Unless a new use is found, closing the Dayton hub will eliminate about 1,400 jobs that existed when UPS bought the operation and about $5 million per year in airport revenues, according to UPS and Dayton officials. Employment at the site is now about 1,250.

The chamber has hired Arlington, Va.-based Merge Global Inc., a transportation and logistics consultant, to help it market the hub.

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