August 20, 2007

Customer Advisory: Hurricane Dean

Pleased be advised that a strengthening Hurricane Dean is moving towards Mexico's Yucatan on Monday after battering Jamaica's southern coast, flooding its capital and littering streets with broken trees and roofs during a Caribbean rampage that has killed at least nine people.

Dean was an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, the second-highest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could strengthen to a potentially catastrophic Category 5.

Carrying sustained winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km per hour), the storm was passing more than 100 miles (160 km) to the south of the tiny Cayman Islands, a British territory in the western Caribbean, en route to an expected strike on the Yucatan Peninsula and Belize early Tuesday.

The hurricane's powerful core was 440 miles (708 km) east of Belize City at 8 a.m. EDT (1 p.m. British time), and moving westward at about 21 mph (34 kph), the hurricane center said.

As Hurricane Dean continues to move West, its predicted landfall on Wednesday is between Tampico, Mexico (Altamira) and Veracruz, Mexico, south of the Texas coast.

We are monitoring the situation closely and will keep you advised of any further developments.

Also, for your convenience, OOCL has a North America Rail Advisory feature published in our website which is updated as frequently as possible. You can find the latest information on rail and weather in the attached link.

http://www.oocl.com/NR/rdonlyres/D2DCA6BA-89C4-41EE-A3C1-D770F658E6D5/0/IntermodalMap.swf

Should you have any questions or require assistance with regards to this advisory or your shipment needs, please do not hesitate to contact OOCL Customer Service in USA or Canada at 1-888-388-6625.

Visit us and track and trace your cargo on www.oocl.com or www.cargosmart.com

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