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Sept. 2, 1999CURRENT: 1038 PREVIOUS DAY: 1039 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

Though cargo handling at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma is back to normal after a strike by indepen

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

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

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The Florida Supreme Court has upheld a $31 million award against Owens Corning for an asbestos-relat

The incoming director-general of the World Trade Organization, New Zealand's Mike Moore, said the to

Although the Indian government expects the dawn of the new millennium to be trouble free, global inf

Cargo movement at Indian ports could be delayed by strikes over issues such as privatization and hig

Evergreen Marine's damaged container ship, the Ever Decent, will leave Zeebrugge over the weekend an

Crash-avoidance radar on tractor-trailer rigs likely would have prevented the May 27 wreck that kill

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Life insurance and financial services company John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. has decided to

A United Parcel Service driver who was beaten and stabbed with an ice pick after crossing a picket l

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The number of employees suing their employers has risen steadily in the last few years. This has led

Credit Bancorp Ltd., the parent company of CBL WorldKey, should have been identified as a Swiss-base

Hundreds of Baltimore truckers on Thursday continued a job action that disrupted port operations ami

Sept. 2, 1999 Reseller RackUNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEAD PREMIUM-UNLEAD REGU

In just six months, the percentage of insurers offering electronic feedback forms on Internet sites

Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.CHRISTINE ZAHN was named director of events manage

Cole National Corp. plans to buy the managed vision-care benefits business of Metropolitan Life Insu

India is likely to buy as much time as possible to remove restrictions on U.S. imports following a W

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

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The Association of American Railroads has appealed a December 1998 ruling by the Surface Transportat

Barring unforeseen opposition, Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, Mexico's main north-south railro

Singapore Airlines Ltd. will add several freighter services, including an additional flight on its L

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

Legislation in California that would have imposed costly restrictions on shipowners' ability to disc

A federal court dismissed the second of two lawsuits filed by importers seeking to avoid payment of

Newport News Shipbuilding will lay off 450 hourly workers beginning this month.The company m

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 94.2 1999 Low: 86.7 1998 H

This week's deadly crash of a Boeing 737 while taking off from Buenos Aires domestic airport has ren

A reported call by U.S. grain company Archer Daniels Midland for growers to segregate genetically mo

U.S. software company Microsoft Corp. announced it would set up an office in Karachi aimed at tappin

The American Trucking Associations says recent unrest among drayage companies at U.S. ports is the r