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

The Chemical Manufacturers Association said its membership has authorized it to oppose the proposed

Crowley Liner Services Inc. and Trailer Bridge Inc. have charged the Puerto Rico Ports Authority wit

Jan. 20, 2000PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEJan. 1400.0

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container units (TEUs)Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May

The Port of Montreal fell just short of handling a benchmark 1 million TEUs last year during a recor

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: 89.3 2

Silvio Izquierdo-Levya walked into the Radisson Bay Harbor Hotel in Tampa several weeks ago and open

Farrell Lines, one of the few remaining privately held U.S.-flag carriers, will boost its scheduled

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Two senior congressmen who sit on a key committee that oversees railroads say they support the Surfa

Talks between trade unions and Indian government officials have resumed, but there is no indication

Attempts to sell South Korea's crippled Kookmin Life Insurance Co. to New York Life Insurance Co. ha

'Obviously, carriers will seek to convince the Judiciary Committee that the legislation is unnecessa

Jan. 20, 2000U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Jan. 21, 2000Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

A federal appeals court, reversing a lower court judgment, has ruled that exporters are not entitled

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

Maritime Administrator Clyde Hart Jr. has urged China to assure the global container shipping indust

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

Kvaerner A/S, the Anglo-Norwegian industrial conglomerate, is taking an additional charge of 750 mil

A coalition of rail unions and the National Railway Labor Conference, which negotiates on behalf of

ROUTE SIZE TIMECHARTER TRIP WEIGHT $ DAILY NO.1 43,000 Contine

THOUSANDS OF BARRELSWEEK WEEK WEEK ENDED ENDED ENDED1/14/00

Eight global container terminal operators have filed expressions of interest in taking over the larg

U.S. property/casualty insurers will pay $8.2 billion for insured property losses from 27 catastroph

The euro slumped to a record low against the British pound last week and seemed headed for another t

Germany and France, in the wake of two widely publicized North Sea shipwrecks, are developing a join

Trucking rates at the U.S.-Mexico border, after declining steadily in recent years, should stabilize

Lloyd's of LondonMAX TAYLOR, the chairman of Lloyd's, was named to the board of the Insuranc

Combatants in the war over New York harbor dredging will be out in full force on Monday at a public

U.S. exports and imports transshipped by truck and rail through Canadian ocean ports represented 5.4

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will begin a $14 million track and bridge maintenance p

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: 89.3

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Jan. 20, 2000NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

Jan. 19, 2000PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEJan. 1400.0

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

APL Ltd. said it is taking over liner agency functions in France, replacing longtime representative