Item 2. Properties
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Item 2. Properties
Operating Facilities
We own our headquarters, which is located in Atlanta, Georgia and consists of about 745,000 square feet of office space in an office campus, and our UPS Supply Chain Solutions group’s headquarters, which is located in Alpharetta, Georgia and consists of about 310,000 square feet of office space.
We own or lease over 1,000 package operating facilities in the U.S., with approximately 73 million square feet of floor space. The smaller of these facilities have vehicles and drivers stationed for the pick-up and delivery of packages, and capacity to sort and transfer packages. The larger of these facilities also service our vehicles and equipment, and employ specialized mechanical installations for the sorting and handling of packages. We own or lease approximately 800 facilities that support our international package operations, with approximately 22 million square feet of floor space.
In addition, we own or lease more than 500 facilities, with approximately 35 million square feet of floor space, that support our freight forwarding and logistics operations. We own and operate a logistics campus consisting of approximately 4 million square feet in Louisville, Kentucky.
We own or lease approximately 200 UPS Freight service centers with approximately 6 million square feet of floor space. The main offices of UPS Freight are located in Richmond, Virginia and consist of about 217,000 square feet of office space.
Our aircraft are operated in a hub and spoke pattern in the U.S., with our principal air hub, known as Worldport, located in Louisville, Kentucky. The Worldport facility consists of over 5 million square feet and includes high-speed conveyor and computer control systems.
We also own or lease regional air hubs globally, with over 4 million square feet of floor space. Our U.S. regional air hubs are located in Dallas, Texas; Ontario, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Rockford, Illinois. These hubs house facilities for the sorting, transfer and delivery of packages. Our European air hub is located in Cologne, Germany, and we maintain Asia-Pacific air hubs in Shanghai, China; Shenzhen, China; and Hong Kong. Our regional air hub in Canada is located in Hamilton, Ontario, and our regional air hub for Latin America and the Caribbean is in Miami, Florida.
Our primary information technology operations are consolidated in a 444,000 square foot owned facility, the Ramapo Ridge facility, in Mahwah, New Jersey. Our information technology headquarters is located in Parsippany, New Jersey, consisting of about 200,000 square feet of office space. We also own a 175,000 square foot facility in Alpharetta, Georgia, which serves as a backup to the main information technology operations facility in New Jersey. This facility provides production functions and backup capacity in the event that a power outage or other disaster incapacitates the main data center. It also helps to meet our internal communication needs.
Fleet
Aircraft
The following table shows information about our aircraft fleet as of December 31, 2018:
| Description | Owned and Capital Leases | Short-term Leased or Chartered From Others | On Order | Under Option | |||||||
| Boeing 757-200 | 75 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Boeing 767-200 | — | 2 | |||||||||
| Boeing 767-300 | 59 | — | 9 | — | |||||||
| Boeing 767-300BCF | 3 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Airbus A300-600 | 52 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Boeing MD-11 | 37 | 5 | — | — | |||||||
| Boeing 747-400F | 11 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Boeing 747-400BCF | 2 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Boeing 747-8F | 9 | — | 19 | — | |||||||
| Other | — | 309 | — | — | |||||||
| Total | 248 | 316 | 28 | — |
Vehicles
We operate a global ground fleet of approximately 123,000 package cars, vans, tractors and motorcycles. Our ground support fleet consists of 36,000 pieces of equipment designed specifically to support our aircraft fleet, ranging from non-powered container dollies and racks to powered aircraft main deck loaders and cargo tractors. We also have 47,000 containers used to transport cargo in our aircraft.
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