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Owners of Hong Kong-registered ships will enjoy savings of up to 30 percent when calling at mainland

American Airlines Cargo announced it is raising its rates to offset skyrocketing fuel prices.

Insurance companies and state insurance departments expect few Y2K-related glitches when Dec. 31, 19

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. and Canadian National Railway Co., paying the price for the servi

The Federal Maritime Commission announced on Wednesday that it ended its investigation into allegedl

Underwriters at Lloyd's beat out Italians to insure the exhibition of Impressionist art from the Her

The wild wind storm that swept through Europe earlier this week has left economic losses of about $5

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

Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (''K'' Line) next month will introduce a stop at China's southern

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

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GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

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

COMMERCIAL QUANTITYAluminum ingots --per ton lots & in wareho

Ships transiting the Panama Canal on Friday morning will enter a canal controlled by the United Stat

Dec. 24, 1999CURRENT: 1211 PREVIOUS DAY: 1210 DOLLARS/DESCRIPTION

THOUSANDS OF BARRELSWEEK WEEK WEEK ENDED ENDED ENDED12/24/99

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

Unionized workers at BC Rail Ltd., Canada's third-largest freight railway, remained locked out Wedne

China's expected entry into the World Trade Organization next year is prompting one of Taiwan's larg

Share prices plunged this week as Amazon.com, eToys Inc. and Toys ''R'' Us - all leaders in the boom

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 95.2 1999 Low: 86.7 1998 H

Dec. 28, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Trucking Industry Defense AssociationTIMOTHY J. ABEEL was elected president of TIDA.

German insurer Allianz AG and U.S. investment group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc. are teaming up to

'Can you imagine marketing basically all of North America from Halifax with a single-line carrier? T

Freight operations at BC Rail Ltd., which carries Canadian forest products to the United States and

French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, touring beaches devastated by oil seeping from a sunken tanker

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

U.S. exporters can expand their shipments to Africa by taking advantage of a host of market-access,

Ships that transit the Suez Canal on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 will need to navigate manually if they don't

Dec. 24, 1999PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEJan. 1245.0 --

Acordia Inc. agreed to buy W.A. Lang Co., a Minneapolis insurance brokerage.Lang specializes

ONA Group joined with French insurer AXA to set up a 4.7 billion-dirham ($467.5 million) insurance v

'Our entire philosophy is to not impact the flow of traffic at all.'

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots -- per ton lots & in warehouse mi

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

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Singapore's Lion Asiapac Ltd., having endured three years of losses, says it will get out of the con

Pressure is mounting on Malaysia's insurers to consolidate faster, a government official said.