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The insurance industry and consumer advocates are debating the merits of tort reform in the aftermat

The Panama Canal Commission, after more than a year of negotiating, has resolved a labor dispute wit

Just two years after entering Europe, an American logistics firm has emerged as market leader with t

P&O Nedlloyd said it is raising freight rates on westbound trans-Atlantic shipments moving on its no

Portugal's national railroad and the country's rail track infrastructure agency are locked in a pric

Pakistan's Port of Karachi has announced a surcharge of 1,000 rupees ($22) per 20-foot equivalent un

The United States has moved up in the global competitiveness stakes to be ranked second in 1999, up

Landstar System Inc. posted second-quarter net income of $10.8 million, or $1.05 a share, on revenue

The Military Sealift Command relied heavily on foreign-flag shipping to support the NATO campaign on

The Alaskan Port of Dutch Harbor-Unalaska topped the nation in fish volume last year.Commerc

Canadian Underwriter Group Publisher Jan Lowther became the first Canadian, first woman and first me

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

A rebound in Thailand's shipping and freight industry could signal a recovery for the country's expo

Indonesia's finance minister, Bambang Subianto, urged the public Thursday not to jump to conclusions

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

Vantage Tracking Solutions, a unit of Orbcomm Global, said that J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. is

The U.S. Maritime Administration is auctioning off two Navy oilers that were left uncompleted amid a

The Americas/Pacific group of carriers, four lines that operate on the west coasts of North and Sout

Valley National Bancorp has acquired Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.'s Totowa, N.J., operation

A move by Britain's largest underwriter to take over an ailing Taiwan life firm appears to be fallin

The world trading community hailed the openness of the U.S. economy, enhanced by the pursuit of libe

Brazil's antitrust authority put on hold for at least four months a proposed merger of two leading b

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container units (TEUs)Apr. MayJune July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov.

The new head of DHL Worldwide Express' U.S. operations says the internationally focused express comp

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The government is proposing a rule change that would tighten U.S.-flag shipping requirements for sma

July 15, 1999CURRENT: 988 PREVIOUS DAY: 985 The Baltic International Freight Futures M

July is strong. August will be really strong. There is nothing telling us there will be a slowdown.'

Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Transportation Inc. reported modest progress in their efforts to retu

A study has found that enacting tort reform in many states since the mid-1980s has not lowered rates

In a bid to fight joblessness, the lower house of the Japanese parliament approved a $4.3 billion su

World Bank President James Wolfensohn said Thursday that he did not expect Argentina's economic prob

World Trade Organization ambassadors will meet today amid prospects that they will agree to end the

The U.S. International Trade Commission found that uranium imports from Kazakstan are not injuring o

Canadian National Railway Co. on Wednesday announced that it upgraded its Web site to give shippers

July 13, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

AXAROBERT E. SALOMONE was named senior vice president, claims, AXA Global Risks U.S., a unit

Russian insurers expect President Boris Yeltsin to veto legislation setting limits on foreign underw

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