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If San Francisco were hit by a repeat of the 1906 earthquake today, property damage would top $34 bi

Insurance companies should be more involved in developing building codes, says a group of industry p

Last year may well be remembered as the year in which the airlines embraced the time-definite concep

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

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Carolyn Hartley was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to a four-year term on the seven-member, bipart

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

Moving to get out of the shipping business, Singapore's SembCorp Logistics Ltd. sold its 50 percent

Container traffic at the Port of Rotterdam increased last year, but a slump in bulk ore and coal tra

Blinco Systems Inc. has rolled out a Web-enabled version of 3rdwave.The revised version shou

Welcome to the New Millennium! Purists will argue that the new millennium won't begin until Jan. 1,

During the Vietnam war and as late as the guerrilla fighting in Central America in the 1980s, Air Am

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

Schenker, the big global freight forwarder, has decided that the way to survive is to become a ''sup

Hong Kong's largest operator of passenger ferries to and from the mainland has introduced an express

Bangladesh, in a move that it says would boost efficiency, is considering turning over container ope

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

XL Capital Ltd.RICHARD LEONE was appointed executive vice president, director of internal op

Shipping lines calling at California ports now face the most stringent and costly laws in the nation

Nine and a half years is ''an awfully long time'' for anyone to be a member of the Federal Maritime

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

Oil giant TotalFina should be prepared to pay outstanding cleanup costs from a devastating oil spill

Mobil Australia could face up to A$10 million (US$6.5 million) in claims from private aircraft owner

The Journal of Commerce today begins publishing a new Industrial Materials Price Index in a joint ve

Crowley Maritime Corp., in anticipation of concluding the sale of its South American liner service

For the three weeks ended Dec. 25, 1999, vs. the similar 1998 periodCARS CARS

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *2000 High: ---- 2000 Low: ----

The U.S. dollar is likely to hold to a narrow range, as trading slowly picks up this week after all

Dec. 29, 1999PREV.CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEJan. --

To keep insurance costs down, risk managers must invest heavily in safety and loss control, industry

Customer relationship management software may sound like a warm and fuzzy - and thoroughly unnecessa

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

The handing over of four airplanes to a German leasing company pushed the total number of deliveries

'Vessels travel like a pack of wolves.'

Dec. 30, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Bu

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

The annual maintenance and repair of the St. Lawrence Seaway's 15 locks and connecting channels from

ROUTE SIZE TIMECHARTER TRIP WEIGHT $ DAILYNO. 1 43,000 Contine

United Parcel Service, the world's largest private-sector delivery company, is raising its delivery

The Federal Maritime Commission has approved a three-year extension to an existing slot- and vessel-