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RICHARD J. BOLTE JR.PRESIDENTBDP INTERNATIONALA change will do you good. So said roc

ROGER KAVANAGHPresident and CEOIntermarine, Inc.The ebb and flow of the gener al shi

U.S.-owned, foreign-flag shipping has been in decline, and industry representatives say that without

Shippers hoping to see more competition injected into the domestic ocean trades have at least one th

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The Reserve Bank of India has unveiled draft guidelines that will stop many financial institutions f

Jan. 13, 2000PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEJan. 1470.0 1472.0 1470.

Pacer International, the fast-growing intermodal marketing and logistics company, has acquired Conex

International air freight traffic will grow by an average of 5.5 percent per year between 1999 and 2

A top Coast Guard admiral will be moving into the No. 2 job in the port commerce department at the P

The Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is coming off a record year in container traffic and is starting 2

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

Third-party logistics companies are expanding into trade finance in an effort to offer a greater ran

How can railroads regain business they lost to trucks in the last half of the 20th century?T

A minute is a long time in New York, especially in the New York University Medical Center, one of Ma

Remember when airlines began saying that alliances were going to transform the air cargo industry? W

Unlike the time-definite services that it's supposed to spawn, Cargo 2000 is behind schedule.

A suntanned shipowner, aboard his yacht idling in cool Mediterranean breezes, flips open a palmtop c

JACK BOISENStaff Vice PresidentContinental CargoContinental Airlines and its cargo d

While the liberalized trade environment of the 1990's brought significant deregulation of U.S. expor

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: 89.1 2000 Low: 88.4ANNU

NCM Group, a unit of Swiss Reinsurance Co., will increase its stake in Maryland Netherlands Credit I

South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co. plans to boost its presence in the growing liquefied natural gas m

From his headquarters at the 'Yellow Giant' building in Bonn, Klaus Zumwinkel has put his indelible

A few years ago, Germany's Deutsche Post AG was a rigidly bureaucratized European postal system, wit

The transportation industry nearly made it out of the 20th century untouched by the Internet, but th

Breakbulk ships, which dominated the oceans through most of the 20th century, are getting steadily f

Shippers' associations are beginning to get their footing, but it will be some time before they hit

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

Federal budget cuts have halted Mexico's plans to add two lanes to the busy highway between Nuevo La

The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America has bought Fiduciary Insurance Co. of America. Terms were

JAN. 13, 2000U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Hub Group Inc., the largest intermodal marketing and logistics company in the United States, has dip

RAYMOND W. KELLYCommissionerU.S. Customs ServiceFor over 200 years, the U.S. C u s t

Momentum is starting to build up for a law designed to accomplish what a 1993 law was supposed to do

There was a time when many importers could treat U.S. Customs as something like a pesky cat 3/4 tos

From lonely roads through Scandinavia's tundra to busy airport tarmacs in the United States, Deutsch

It's toll collection. It's border pre-clearance for trucks. It's in-vehicle safety and navigation sy