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

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

Bulk shipping line Overseas Shipholding Group Inc., benefiting from the sale of some older ships, po

Investors interested in Chilean port privatization will have to provide advance money as well as lea

Aug. 10, 1999PREV. CLOSE HIGH LOW VOL. CLOSEAug. --

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

Maritime Administrator Clyde Hart Jr. has ruled that carriers can sell ships without necessarily tra

APL Ltd. and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines want to expand their agreement to share space in the trade lane cov

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

Eraterequest.com has become the latest company to announce plans for an online business-to-business

Shanghai's China Shipping Group, and U.S. steamship agent Norton Lilly International will establish

An established national grocery chain has decided to stop selling North Atlantic swordfish until bet

Importers are growing increasingly anxious over Congress' lack of progress toward renewing the Gener

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

A program to speed customs clearance for U.S. shipments will be expanded to additional Russian Far E

Lloyd's of London, the world's leading insurance market, said it is ''looking at all sorts of ways t

Nestled in the center of one of Mexico City's oldest industrial centers is a young Mexican logistics

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A small air freight forwarder based outside Minneapolis-St. Paul is growing rapidly and has even big

Aug. 11, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Boeing Co. signed a $2.5 billion contract to supply Taiwan's China Airlines with 13 airplanes on Wed

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Shippers are being urged to join a pioneering electronic messaging system in Rotterdam for the inlan

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

USF Distribution Services has bought Special Dispatch of Dallas Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

The International Trade Administration is extending steep trade penalties against Brazilian frozen o

Cathay Pacific Airways said Wednesday it swung back to profitability in the first half of the year,

It's the peak trans-Pacific shipping season, and U.S. importers are experiencing a strange phenomeno

The story, ''Melbourne: Australia's largest container harbor,'' that appeared on Page 6C of the Aust

Solid growth in agricultural and vehicular traffic failed to offset declining traffic on Eastern U.S

Hamburg-Sud's liner services between Europe and the east coast of South America operate under the na

Viking Freight System Inc., a regional trucking company that consolidates freight in the less-than-t

Transtek Solutions Inc., Downers Grove, Ill., said it has established a freight car inspection and r

The utilization of container ships operating in U.S. trade lanes increased slightly in the first qua

Aug. 11, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 24.

Equitas, which was set up to settle non-life liabilities that Lloyd's syndicates incurred before 199

United Parcel Service is considering appealing a ruling by the U.S. Tax Court that could cost it bet

Lykes Lines and Nordana Lines have asked the Federal Maritime Commission to allow Nordana to charter

Kitty Hawk Inc. has won a six-year contract to operate a Western hub for the U.S. Postal Service.

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