Latest news

The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone government's plan to phase out state-owned enterprises as the mai

Waterfront unions are fighting proposals to require dockworkers to undergo background checks as part

Paul Davril Inc. has more than 14,000 items of men's clothing sitting in a Los Angeles warehouse, wa

The European Union is studying a plan to encourage France to open its rail freight market to interna

Only table.

The government, in a bid to bridge a long-neglected logistics gap, is planning a railroad that would

Russian and U.S. officials are praising cooperation on the construction of new wide-bodied aircraft

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

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

July 8, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley

Firms with large liability-related losses seemed to appreciate the value of paying a little to keep

Catastrophic claims in the second quarter 1999 will hit an estimated $3.25 billion for insured prope

Twenty-five disgruntled chemical shippers gave the Surface Transportation Board an earful about prob

July 8, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

To learn what's happening in the fast-changing world of insurance, 24 hours a day, call up The Journ

Having completed a six-month trial, the United States is moving to make Hong Kong the next U.S. text

Cargill said Thursday that it bought 15 percent of the shares of Lithuania's Lifosa AB, an exporter

The shipping industry is looking beyond the Coast Guard's interim rule on ballast water exchanges fo

Norfolk Southern Corp. has offered sweeping incentives to 30,000 union workers if they stay on the j

Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Transportation Inc. reported no improvement last week in performance

The Teamsters said that union members who haul new vehicles ratified a contract with carriers by a 4

THOUSANDS OF BARRELSWEEK WEEK WEEK ENDED ENDED ENDED7/2/99

Florida will set up gamma-ray machines at six seaports to scan cargo containers for stolen cars bein

Siemens AG plans to use the profit from the sale of two units to finance acquisitions of U.S. Intern

Northwest Airlines' most recent filing with the Department of Transportation suggests that if it is

Cargo executives at Air Canada expect traffic will return to normal this weekend in the aftermath of

The British government unveiled radical proposals on Thursday giving the state-owned Post Office com

Police in the western state of Gujarat on Wednesday arrested 44 crewmembers of the Pakistan-bound No

The report ''Anatomy of a Customs ruling,'' which appeared on Page 1 on Wednesday misidentified the

Employment in Australia received its biggest monthly boost since November 1995 as 62,400 jobs were a

July 7, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Hudson's Bay Co. was established May 2, 1670, under charter from England's King Charles II, who gran

Somewhere in Europe, more than $8 billion worth of cigarettes, alcohol and agricultural commodities

The euro fell to a record low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after comments from Germany's fina

Airborne Freight Corp., which operates express carrier Airborne Express, became the second express c

Major U.S. steel producers aren't happy about a Clinton administration deal that will allow Brazil t

Hudson's Bay Co. was practicing logistics more than three centuries ago.The governors in the

With negotiations for a new waterfront contract set to resume today, importers, exporters and carrie

July 8, 1999CURRENT: 976 PREVIOUS DAY: 957 The Baltic International Freight Futures Ma