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

U.S. insurers and managed-care organizations made $7.4 billion worth of acquisitions in the third qu

Singapore's moves to launch free-trade agreements with countries outside Southeast Asia will not det

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Two years after the Federal Maritime Commission sparked an international incident by threatening to

It is 2010, and a refrigerated container of vegetables arrives at the Port of Miami. It is removed f

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container units (TEUs)July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Fe

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XL Capital Ltd. and ACE Ltd., global reinsurers based in Bermuda, are in a fight for U.S. reinsurer

The Oklahoma insurance commissioner and business leaders are seeking legislative reforms to reduce t

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

A recent rise in demand from steelmakers and power generators promises to end the current downturn i

Oct. 8, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Corporacion Mapfre's reinsurance arm, Mapfre Re, will buy U.S. companies Chatham Holdings and Chatha

Aetna Inc. has announced a new program to cut disability costs by trying to identify workers at risk

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The U.S. auto and auto parts trade deficit with Japan could hit a record high this year, say U.S. tr

Two high-tech companies are refining their proposals for a system that airlines and air freight forw

The troubled global talks on removing duties on billions of dollars of trade in high-tech products h

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The Containerization & Intermodal Institute said its 1999 Connie Awards will be presented at a lunch

'Those rates are not as secure as we would like them to be.'

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The new three-year contract signed this summer by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union an

The Federal Railroad Administration released a consultant's study that found shippers should expect

In a page 20 report on Oct. 5, ''Alliance eyes Puerto Rico,'' letters were transposed in the name of

Norfolk Southern Corp. restructured its information-technology services by creating a new subsidiary

Insurance fraud is a growth industry in the United States, but so is the use of technology to combat

Evergreen Marine Corp. said it doesn't plan to sell its Panama container port, but is open to a join

Mexico's Gulf Port of Tuxpan reopened this week after being closed late last week because of what on

Chase Manhattan Bank has launched Trade Winds, a product offering electronic processing for internat

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

A three-day seminar on Crisis Management in Transportation will be held at the U.S. Merchant Marine

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A unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos. has acquired Loewenthal Sagiv Ben Zur Holdings Ltd. for 54 million s

Oct. 12, 1999CURRENT: 1308 PREVIOUS DAY: 1301 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

Third-quarter rail earnings should rise approximately 15 percent overall, but ongoing problems with

The trade community is currently quite concerned with Customs' revocation of a New York ruling on th