Remember when "the other side of the world" felt like it was on the other side of the world? And the only people that traveled to China had addresses in Washington D.C.? Those days are long gone.
     For years now, Asia has been the home of two of the world's leading economic and industrial countries. And according to the financial experts, China will become the world's second largest economy within 11 years. The country already is the world's largest market for mobile phones and a key center for the production of textiles, computer chips and other higher-tech items. So it's no surprise that companies in the United States are conducting more and more business with Asia on a daily basis.
     To help facilitate all those transactions, UPS® has increased its services to China. Starting in November of 2004, UPS began the first of 12 new flights to China, with service to Shanghai. The new flights will triple the current service from six to 18 flights a week.
     UPS has been delivering packages in China since 1988 and is still the only U.S. cargo carrier providing daily, nonstop service to and from the United States and China. Next year, UPS will inaugurate the remaining six flights to provide the first-ever nonstop service between the U.S. and Guangzhou in the fast-growing Pearl River Delta.
     "With the additional flights to Shanghai and Guangzhou and our plans to establish a hub in Shanghai, UPS will be offering its customers extraordinary access to this critical, seven-day-a-week economy," said David Abney, president of UPS International.
     According to the latest economic projections, intra-Asia trade also is expected to grow rapidly in coming years. In the third quarter of 2004, UPS experienced a substantial increase in export volume across the Asia Pacific Region.
     To facilitate that growth, UPS recently launched an additional six weekly flights between Hong Kong and its intra-Asia hub in the Philippines. UPS customers now can take advantage of even greater flexibility provided by "double-daily" flights from Hong Kong, via Singapore to the Philippines and the rest of Asia.

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