Expeditors Board of Directors Votes to Change Wording of EEO Statement

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPD), a global logistics company, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a modification to the Company’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy (EEO) statement to expressly include the words "sexual orientation.” You can find our complete EEO policy statement in our Code of Business Conduct at www.expeditors.com.

A shareholder proposal to request this change has been on the Company’s proxy statement for the last three years. In reviewing the results of this year’s votes, in conjunction with the Company’s 2^nd quarter 2008 SEC filing on Form 10-Q, the Company determined that, because of a recent by-law change, abstentions which were counted as votes against this proposal should have been considered as non-votes. The result of this change meant that the advisory shareholder proposal had passed. Accordingly, the Board of Directors unanimously approved the change sought by the proposal.

Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company employs trained professionals in 182 full-service offices, 69 satellite locations and 4 international service centers located on six continents linked into a seamless worldwide network through an integrated information management system. Services include air and ocean freight forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, marine insurance, distribution and other value added international logistics services.