NEW YORK (AP) — The UPS cargo level clang connected Tuesday astatine the company’s planetary aviation hub successful Kentucky, which killed astatine slightest nine, volition temporarily disrupt the proviso concatenation and effect successful immoderate shipping delays.

But UPS says it has contingency plans successful place, and experts accidental the interaction should beryllium cleared up earlier the highest vacation season.

The level crashed Tuesday evening arsenic it was departing for Honolulu from UPS Worldport, UPS' largest shipping hub, astatine Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Package sorting astatine the halfway was halted precocious Tuesday and the halt continued connected Wednesday. About 416,000 packages tin beryllium sorted astatine the installation per hour, according to a UPS information sheet.

UPS has not released immoderate details astir however galore and what benignant of packages were connected the plane.

Ed Anderson, a prof of proviso concatenation and operations absorption for the McCombs School of Business astatine the University of Texas, estimates the mean fig of packages per level leaving the Louisville shipping hub is 10,000 to 13,000.

Consumers who privation to cheque connected their UPS packages tin hold to perceive from the institution oregon look up tracking details online. UPS has a claims process for mislaid oregon damaged packages, but it is unclear if radical and businesses with packages connected the downed level volition person to spell done that process. UPS volition apt scope retired to affected customers successful coming days. They did not respond to a petition for comment.

Tom Goldsby, prof of proviso concatenation absorption astatine the University of Tennessee successful Knoxville, said UPS volition astir apt measurement up flights to its determination hubs to offset Worldport’s closure.

The hubs are “going to instrumentality connected a greater load until that captious cognition successful Louisville gets backmost to the afloat capacity,” helium said.

UPS said successful a connection that it has contingency plans successful spot to assistance guarantee that shipments get astatine their last destinations arsenic rapidly arsenic conditions permit, but did not springiness specifics connected what the plans were.

Goldsby said UPS volition beryllium nether unit to resoluteness immoderate delays earlier the highest vacation season.

“It’s an contented that they rapidly privation to resolve, but they are going to person to bash their owed diligence successful resolving the existent crisis,” helium said.

He himself was expecting a UPS bundle from Oregon routed done Worldport today, but got a connection that it would person to beryllium rescheduled.

“I recognize the condition and volition gladly person it erstwhile it arrives,” helium said, adding patience volition beryllium needed for others expecting packages. “People and businesses don’t person a batch of knowing (about the proviso chain). We conscionable don’t expect our logistics operations to person a calamity oregon adjacent a atrocious day.″

The clang comes arsenic UPS works connected a turnaround, focusing little connected Amazon deliveries and much connected business-to-business deliveries. In its astir caller net study past week, the institution said it has chopped 48,000 jobs successful the twelvemonth to day and closed immoderate buildings arsenic portion of its turnaround. Its third-quarter results bushed expectations.