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Welcome to the World Information Center, Quick’s source for news and information for conducting business globally. Here you will find links to international holidays, weather, international time zones, dialing codes and more. To make this section more useful to you, we are continually updating the information below – so please bookmark this page and visit it often.


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Packaging & Shipping Tips
The latest tips for your shipping needs.

Quick Connections
A newsletter linking our world to yours.

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Shipping Resources

Foreign Entry Requirements
A Web site for checking foreign country VISA requirements.

Regulatory & Government Agencies
For a list of regulatory agencies involved in the import and export of
biopharmaceutical shipments.


News

CNN World News:
Up to the minute world news.


Time Around the World

Domestic Time Zones
Set your watch by the Internet, using this new Web site linked to an atomic clock.

Time Zone Converter
Now you can find out the time anywhere in the world.

World Time Server
World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any world clock
on the Internet. It makes real time adjustments for Daylight Saving Time. No matter what time zone a country or city is located in, this site is your best source for determining the time anywhere in the world.


International Resources

http://www.world-calendar.com/
2004 - World-calendar.com is a web-based perpetual calendar. It contains holidays of over 75 countries and holidays of four religions: Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Orthodox. In addition, it includes four other calendrical systems, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, and Islamic, all of which are relative to Gregorian.

International Holidays: 2002-2003
A complete world holiday schedule to help you plan your shipping or
business
activities.

International Dialing Codes
MCI website will help you find the correct dialing code.

International and USA weather:
Up to the minute weather updates.

Pounds to Kilograms
A calculator to instantly convert pounds to kilograms or kilograms to pounds!

MultiMap
A complete interactive atlas on the Web!!

Free Searching Reference Guide
Links to Web sites offering international zip codes, postal codes, postal services
and international post offices on the Internet.

http://www.wajb.freeserve.co.uk/codes.htm
This website lists all the airports and airline codes of the world.

Airline Information

Airline Ontime Delivery
A link to airline ontime statistics.

FlyteComm
Near-real time domestic flight tracking data.