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For the three weeks ended Aug. 21, 1999, vs. the similar 1998 periodCARS CARSPERC

Aug. 26, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

U.S. life and health insurers' net income for the first quarter of 1999 rose 22 percent, to $6.8 bil

Hewlett-Packard Co. has formed a partnership with Delphi Information Systems Inc. to build an Intern

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The Journal of Commerce welcomes announcements of personnel changes, upcoming events, deaths and oth

Alliance Shippers Inc. said its information systems are fully Y2K compliant.The announcement

Emery Worldwide is expanding its Gold Priority Express service to connect Singapore to major points

Dutch postal and express firm TNT Post Group has identified India as one of several high-growth mark

Aug. 25, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

AOL Europe shook up the European Internet scene again on Thursday, announcing it would offer unlimit

With more than 80 percent of West Coast longshoremen voting to approve a new three-year contract, sh

British Telecommunications bought Yellow Book USA for $665 million on Thursday and said the e-commer

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

South Korea's Samsung Group, recently praised by President Kim Dae-jung, unveiled a massive investme

Singapore-based feeder operators have withdrawn their congestion surcharge of $100 per 20-foot equiv

A pattern is emerging.Any proposed Ocean Shipping Reform Act rule change that leading shippe

NEW YORK LIFEGary M. O'Neill was elected a vice president. O'Neill serves in New York Life's

Indonesia's central bank said on Thursday its investigation of a controversial banking deal had foun

Viking Freight Inc. has announced that shippers can now place orders for freight pickup through its

The fire aboard the Evergreen Marine container ship Ever Decent has been put out.The company

A $20 billion project that would cut 63 miles off the maritime route across Thailand's Kra Isthmus i

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Global sourcing of goods by multinationals will aid the liner shipping industry by expanding logisti

SAP AG, the German company that dominates the market for enterprise resource planning software, said

If you build it, they will come. But will they come soon enough? And will they pay enough to make it

Filing a blizzard of lawsuits against the South Korean government, Panacom Inc. of New York has brus

A doctor submitted more than $780,000 in bogus medical bills for 138 auto accident victims to Pruden

As if it didn't already have enough problems, troubled insurer GIO Australia Holdings Ltd. said it h

Ecuador's decision to restructure its Brady bonds with the blessing of the International Monetary Fu

The British government was criticized Thursday for opening Scotland's Prestwick airport to U.S. air

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German barge operators, hurting from low freight rates and high-water delays, are trying to block a

Labor negotiations that could lead to the foreign flagging of the last eight liquefied natural gas t

Spurred by rising prices for jet fuel and strong demand, airlines are asking their cargo customers t

G.I. Trucking Co., La Merida, Calif., is the latest motor carrier to impose a fuel surcharge.

General Mills Inc. has ended two international joint ventures to sell snacks and desserts, the Minne

TRW Inc. has teamed up with four computer systems integration firms in Latin America, Asia and Easte