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When an industry giant with vast resources snaps up a company that's already your largest competitor

A few optimistic insurers are eyeing the business of shipowner-owned protection and indemnity clubs

Warren Hastings believes in the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention.An inter

Georg Mehl lies awake at nights contemplating the prospect of marine insurance becoming a commodity

The U.S. dollar will continue to track the stock and bond markets, analysts said.As long as

Sept. 3, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The United States and China agreed to resume talks this week on Beijing's bid to join the World Trad

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater's Year 2020 maritime infrastructure report, overdue to Congre

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

Two regional trucking companies that consolidate shipments in the sector known as less-than-truckloa

Indonesia's drive to improve efficiency of its ports through privatization may be blunted by its pol

One recent late-summer day, seven ships waited outside Duluth-Superior Port for their turns in the n

Evergreen International Airlines recently announced an agreement with Forward Air for exclusive use

The Port of Seattle expects soon to file a claim for its Y2K expenses, using the ''sue-and-labor'' c

Acordia Inc. has bought Wm. Allen & Assoc. of Dunedin, FlaThe Allen insurance agency was fou

WorldPoint Logistics, the third-party holding company formed last year, has acquired Corporate Expre

Brazilian imports increased in August for the first time since January's devaluation of the real.

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

The Department of Transportation is seeking comments on requests from more than two dozen motor carr

When Air Canada moved to a new cargo facility in Boston this spring it chose an off-airport site clo

Country Mutual Insurance Co. of Bloomington, Ill., and Holyoke Mutual Insurance Co. of Salem, Mass.,

AXA Financial Inc. is the name for the new holding company that includes Equitable Life Assurance So

Sept. 2, 1999PREV. CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSESept. 1125.0 -

If China's bid to enter the World Trade Organization is successful, textile exports could soar while

Chile will sign a free-trade agreement with five Central American nations on Oct. 25, the Foreign Af

Carriers operating in the trade linking the west coast of India, Pakistan and Europe are raising rat

The Federal Highway Administration has issued new rules that stiffen penalties for violations at rai

Crawford & Co. has acquired Certiser SA, a marine cargo prevention and adjusting service company of

Sept. 3, 1999CURRENT: 1039 PREVIOUS DAY: 1039 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

Sept. 3, 1999 Reseller RackUNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEAD PREMIUM-UNLEAD REGUL

Tick tock. Tick tock. As the new millennium approaches, a buzz of nervous anticipation is zigzagging

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

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Political strife in Venezuela, the main foreign oil supplier to the United States, is worsening an e

Safer vessels, higher scrap steel prices and intense competition are offering relief for shipowners

A slight tightening in reinsurance prices for marine insurers is sending a sign that the cargo insur

September 3: 1039

Sept. 3, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 26.

Two online markets for ocean-carrier services will debut this month. But will shippers and carriers

Shippers moving their goods to and from the Philippines will have an additional choice later this ye