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Nickel prices leapt 2 percent to their highest levels since September 1995 on Wednesday as major Fre

'The contract today really is a blank sheet of paper.'

The rules for filing export paperwork electronically are changing rapidly. And exporters are changin

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

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Linda J. Morgan announced that STB General Counsel Henri F. Ru

Because of a data keypunch error, the price of red oak in the JOC-ECRI Industrial Materials Price In

FEB. 8, 2000U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Fulghum Industries Inc. reduced its workers' compensation claims costs by a whopping 98 percent in o

Feb. 8, 2000PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEFeb. 1295.0

St. Paul Cos.'s new Web site, stpaul.com, features a ''coverage calculator,'' which takes company in

Truckers in the Port of New York and New Jersey plan a peaceful demonstration for 8 a.m. Thursday to

Supply chain management techniques developed in the West are finding their way into to India.

Expeditors International of Washington Inc. reported record fourth-quarter earnings of $18.6 million

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

The article about TNT International Express headlined ''Company brings 'human' touch to customer ser

Two shippers, one a California perishables exporter and the other a North Carolina importer, have de

Feb. 9, 2000CURRENT: 1276 PREVIOUS DAY: 1269 DOLLARS/DESCRIPTION

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: 89.8

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

Arguing that the hourly pay system for harbor truckers set up last summer to end a strike isn't work

CNF Transportation Inc., to allow more flexibility in portraying its role in providing various suppl

Feb. 9, 2000Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

World Trade Organization Director-General Mike Moore said on Wednesday it would be an ''enormous dis

IBM Corp. said Wednesday it won a contract initially worth $8 million from British Telecommunication

A month ago the intermodal drayage business was highly fragmented. Today, while the industry is stil

The Federal Maritime Commission has ordered Maersk Sealand to answer questions about its China opera

Canadian truckers and large North American shippers are at loggerheads over carriers' demands for fr

The trailblazing joint venture between KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Alitalia, just three months afte

The Asian air cargo market is beginning to recover, but a return to the pre-1997 days of rapid growt

In a sign that the nation's maritime industry is recovering, cargo through Russian ports jumped 30 p

Frank Butters is owner of International Ocean Shipping Contracts Inc, consultant for global ocean co

British ocean carrier Contship Containerlines and Shipping Corp. of India are teaming to offer shipp

THOUSANDS OF BARRELSWEEK WEEK WEEK ENDED ENDED ENDED

Catalog and internet clothes retailer L.L. Bean Inc. has announced it will use Celarix Shipper Servi

Feb. 9, 2000NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buc

A delegation from the European Union is in Seoul to discuss allegations that the South Korean govern

The BOLT Canada Line service is defunct, and two of its ships, held at Montreal for several weeks,

Maersk Sealand plans to merge its two North Atlantic vessel rotations into a single service that wou

Feb. 8, 2000CURRENT: 1269 PREVIOUS DAY: 1274 DOLLARS/DESCRIPTION

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