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Brazil, responding to pressure from its trading partners, plans to scrap most import licenses.

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A British trade delegation has gone to Libya to see if newly restored diplomatic relations with Moam

Low freight rates combined with plunging Chicago Board of Trade corn values have brought the landed

German insurance group Allianz confirmed it has been discussing a possible merger with Pimco Advisor

Contship Containerlines, one of the member lines of CP Ships, will enter the Mediterranean-U.S. West

Thomas F. Power Jr. will take over as president and chief executive of Wisconsin Central Transportat

Drawing on a business plan that made this island chain a haven for insurance companies, Bermuda is a

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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