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

Hong Kong's container terminal operators, badly squeezed by high costs, are banding together to redu

TNT India Ltd., a subsidiary of the Dutch TNT Post Group, said its growth in India this year could d

Crowley Marine Transport and Associated Transport Line have notified the Federal Maritime Commission

Swiss food company Nestle on Thursday announced an ice cream joint venture in the United States with

Israeli start-up Internet company Slangsoft said Thursday it was in talks with giant U.S. Web search

Joint contracts 'could make things easier for big shippers to move cargo in one contract.'

U.S. Customs says that although the Ocean Shipping Reform Act allows confidential contracts, freight

Aug. 18, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Aug. 19, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 26.

Aug. 19, 1999 Reseller RackUNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLEAD PREMIUM-UNLEAD REGUL

Aug. 19, 1999CURRENT: 1066 PREVIOUS DAY: 1066 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

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Reorganization of one shipping service has given birth to another one in the Asia-Australia trade.

Boeing Co. said on Thursday it was working with Russia's Ilyushin design bureau on plans to modify B

Circle International and Billings Freight Systems, a regional carrier hauling consolidated freight,

Wanting to straighten out its past before it goes public, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed

Gentner Communications Corp. named Syncrotape Sistemas Electronicos Ltda., Blumenau, Brazil, as mast

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

A possible alliance between three big Japanese banks may kick off a new series of shake-ups in Japan

It's one legislative hurdle down, one to go for Baltimore, Tampa, Oakland and other port cities plan

AirNet Systems Inc. has named Joel Biggerstaff president and chief operating officer. He replaces Je

In the coming business world where e-commerce is going to be dominated by business-to-business tradi

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

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

DHL International Ltd. said it will spend $125 million over the next four years to expand its intern

Aug. 18, 1999PREV. CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEAug. 1090.0

Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum producer, on Thursday said it reached an agreement to buy R

Families of victims of Swissair Flight 111, which crashed almost a year ago off the coast of Nova Sc

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Aug. 19, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

The executive director of the Massachusetts Port Authority submitted his resignation Wednesday, shor

Only table.

Germany's Lufthansa AG said Thursday that its profit during this year's first half was the airline's

The Berlin Wall fell nearly 10 years ago, but the industrial spies have not come in from the cold.

After four years of decreasing workers comp rates, California employers can expect to pay higher pri

Australia's flagship carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. announced a 38 percent surge in annual profit to a

Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation spokesman Hu Chusheng said Thursday that China's

A new type of Australian stockman - one who rides the waves instead of horses - is being created to

The U.K. Maritime and Coastguard agency said it does not expect any major problems from the rollover