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Marsh Inc. will acquire VidalInti, Peru's leading insurance broker, for an undisclosed price.

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

The once-potent Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement is trying to muster support for proposed rate in

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots $1,500-$1,600 per ton lots & in warehouse

In less than three months, an important provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement is supp

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

Despite modest growth, the value of global air cargo trade surpassed the $2 trillion mark for the fi

Declining reserves for U.S. property/casualty insurers are a cause for concern, says Moody's Investo

'Exports will actually turn around for the breakbulk industry next year.'

One way or another, the Bank of Japan is expected to ease monetary policy at its meeting Wednesday,

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

A wide range of factors is influencing the types of aircraft that will be used to move air cargo in

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

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots $1,500-$1,600 per ton lots & in warehouse

Canadian National RailwayWILLIAM F. LYNESS was named to the newly created position of assist

Tech Pacific Australia, a distributor of information technology and telecommunications products, has

Oct. 7, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

First American Financial Corp. will buy Five Star Holdings Inc. of Irvine, Calif. Terms were not dis

With a little over a month before the World Trade Organization launches a new round of global trade

'There is no space problem to speak of this year.'

Route Size Timecharter trip Weight $ DailyNo. 1 43,000 Contine

Europe/Med. | Africa/Mid East | India/Far East/Aus. |Americas/Carib. Europe/Mediterranean

A business group wants Congress to repeal a law that it says would tie up border traffic by requirin

FastShip Atlantic Inc. said it ordered $35 million worth of gears for the super-fast container ships

Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have adopted a national contingency p

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

Norfolk Southern Corp. has opened a European office in Brussels to market rail freight services, inc

Denis Coderre, the owner of a trucking company in Quebec, is an angry man.Five weeks ago, th

Joey Carnes was appointed president for BAX Global's U.S. and Canada divisions.Carnes will o

Though the Ocean Shipping Reform Act allows confidential shipper-carrier contracts, most shippers do

Oct. 7, 1999 Reseller RackUNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEAD PREMIUM-UNLEADREGULAR

Oct. 7, 1999CURRENT: 1280 PREVIOUS DAY: 1271 The Baltic International Freight Futures Ma

When Austrian Airlines announced last month that it would join the Star Alliance next summer, the on

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

France has eased its hard-line stance against cross-border rail competition, boosting the European U

Borrowing from its recruiting slogan, the Army wants to give third-party logistics providers a chanc

India plans to enforce rules that require foreign-flag vessels operating in the domestic trade to ob

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Aspect Development Inc., a supply chain planning software company, says it expects some 1,000 execut

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