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1/19/2007 - Denver, Colorado

United Shipping Inc., the premier Worldwide Association of Independently owned Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers with over 100 member companies and 250 offices, announced today the appointment of Servicios Logisticos Globales, S.A. (SLG) as its newest member. SLG is located in Guatemala City and a part of the PLG Group, our partner based in San Salvador, El Salvador.

SLG is a young company headed by Ricardo Quezada Mejia, President. Today, SLG has a staff of 11 people with 3 focusing primarily on sales. “We expect to provide a reliable agent in Guatemala to the United Shipping family who will represent and make your business grow in the area, offering a full range of supply chain services to customers’” said Eugenia Canizales, co-owner and primary contact. “Our motto is to provide customers with professional solutions in logistics and supply chain. We do this by adding value to the services offered, considering costs and quality of service in order to achieve our goals. We are interested to grow as well as make the United Shipping name grow in Guatemala and Central America,” continued Ms. Canizales.

"Our desire to be the best and our need for worldwide presence through a network caused us to contact United Shipping because of a very high recommendation of Deborah Bright of PLG in El Salvador. We are excited to be a part of USI and look forward to meeting the members very soon. We believe that our experience in the industry, particularly in this part of the world and our professional business ethics will be an asset to the members," Eugenia continued.

United Shipping, formed in 1988, offers importers and exporters the advantages of multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found in locally owned and operated businesses. United Shipping's membership covers over 65 countries on 6 continents with over 37 offices in North America.

"We have added a very young but a company with great potential to the United Shipping family and look forward to the development of an extremely beneficial relationship for the entire partnership," stated Fred Hall, President of United Shipping in a telephone conversation from Dallas.

SLG will be attending United Shipping’s next worldwide meeting scheduled to take place in London, May 7-11, 2007.

For more information, contact United Shipping, Inc., Corporate Office, 15200 East Girard Avenue, Suite 4000, Aurora, Colorado, USA 80014, Tel: (1) 800-783-0730, Fax: (1) 303-426-7666.

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