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XL Capital will form a subsidiary holding company to oversee the expansion of XL's insurance busines

The Bank of Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market Wednesday for the first time in two mont

This week's hearing on the future structure of the railroad industry is being conducted in the shado

Wiscon- sin Central Transportation has become the first competing railroad to support the Canadian N

Strong contributions from key shipyard units in the Philippines helped spur Singapore's sprawling Ke

For more than three decades, Seth M. Bodner has helped defend domestic apparel manufacturers against

Congress reached a difficult compromise on major aviation legislation and opened the way for much hi

Lloyd's of London has begun to fight a lawsuit brought by individual investors who accuse the 312-ye

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

Transportal, a Web portal or access point for selected software and services, has named a chief exec

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The tradeleads are

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'Ports are moving more and more to seek nontraditional sources of revenue, and gaming is a good one

Total tonnage for fiscal year 1999 at the state-run Port of Richmond was 606,334 tons, down from 635

Work is complete on the first stage of a $40 million project to upgrade Vietnam's main port as volum

Say you're a shipper or forwarder and your container, which should have taken two hours to clear cus

Trans-Pacific carriers say buoyant cargo volumes leave them optimistic that their previously announc

European shipbuilders, hurt by competition from South Korea, threatened to file a formal complaint t

The story, ''Quartel is back - this time on the Web,'' March 8, Page 1, carried a photo of Michael D

using joc chemical pricesMonday: Botanicals-Spices, Balsams-Gums, Waxes, Naval Stores.<

Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Co. will write workers compensation coverage in Kentucky.Mana

When Mark Rhoney, president of UPS e-Ventures, says the company wants to help facilitate global comm

Leaders in Cyprus now have the opportunity to reunify their island after 25 years of military-enforc

European shipowners are delighted by this week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that individual states ca

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The American Association of Insurance Services will move to a new location effective March 20.

GE Reinsurance has launched its new Web site, www.gereinsur ance.com.''The GE Reinsurance We

While the slight, but significant, hardening of commercial property/casualty insurance rates across

Ships that lose an anchor not only delay the delivery of cargo, but may place the crew and ship in d

''There's life after FedEx.''That's the message a small Memphis customs broker and forwarder

President Clinton ''got exercised'' after Republicans accused him of not working hard enough to win

SUNY Maritime College recently drew 25 companies and three maritime unions to its first career fair

A 114-page overview of maritime statistics has been issued jointly by the Bureau of Transportation S

Pacer InternationalADRIENE BAILEY was named vice president-planning at the Walnut Creek, Cal

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: 90.6

Express delivery companies have successfully stalled Brazilian legislation that they say would put t

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Several members of Congress who support funding for a new Customs service computer system, the Autom

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