Agreed...I'd let UPS stew in their own bad decision except for the fact you're right...Communist Chinese are going to use UPS to improve their military logistics. Bruce -------- Original Message -------- Subject: UPS to open hub in China. Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:25:20 EDT <>Bruce! Talk about selling the enemy the rope with which to hang us! I think UPS is in for a rude surprise. They will set up their hub only to have the Chinese study their technology and procedures. Then out of the blue they will step in, shut them down and operate their own hub, just like they have with a myriad of other western owned businesses. Bet they use it to improve their military logistics capability .... O </> UPS Inc., the world's top package carrier, signed an agreement on Thursday, July 7, to set up a logistics distribution center in China. Ken Torok, Asia-Pacific head for UPS, said the Atlanta, GA, based firm also planned to expand its fledgling domestic express service next year, pitting it against national monopoly China State Postal Bureau (China Post). UPS's hub, designed to have an annual capacity of 200,000 tons, will be based at Shanghai's international airport and is expected to begin operations in January 2007. UPS joins rivals including Dutch logistics firm TPG and Deutsche Post's DHL Express rushing to widen their footprint in a $1.5 billion market that industry executives expect to become the world's largest cargo market some day. Transport hubs -- such as the on e UPS is envisioning in China's commercial stronghold Shanghai -- act as distribution centers by taking packages and shipping them on to their final destinations. Torok said UPS' hub agreement was the first among foreign carriers. Source: http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type= mergersNews&storyID=2005-07-07T073810Z_01_SHA45196_RTRIDST_0 _TRANSPORT-CHINA-UPS.XML [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
