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Pioneer Railcorp sold its Minnesota Central Railroad Co. subsidiary to Southern Rail Resources Inc.

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Two old Hanseatic ports on the Baltic Sea - Germany's Lubeck and Poland's Szczecin - signed an agree

China is making more changes in the way it does overseas business, trumpeting transparency and moder

Labeling could be the key to ending a trade war between the United States and the European Union ove

'There is no law that prevents underwriters from being fools.'

A reinsurance company and underwriting facility have been created to write alternative risk transfer

European transport ministers have intensified their commitment to a new pan-European corridor stretc

BDP International, an international logistics and transportation services company, will host a one-d

European Commission officials may propose rules that could hamper an airline's choice of aircraft us

Northwest Airlines Cargo and Continental Airlines Cargo are expanding their same day, small package

John Dingell, D-Mich., said he may reveal names of states and insurance firms that don't show progre

U.S. and Canadian negotiators failed to settle a simmering dispute over magazines in talks this week

SEATTLE LEADS NATIONIN REEFER CARGOThe Port of Seattle, which handled 813,059 metric tons of

A U.S. District judge next month will sentence a Hong Kong man who pled guilty to smuggling more tha

Canada this week imposed provisional duties of 110 percent on stainless steel from South Korea, conf

Hong Kong's only full aircraft overhaul company will shift more of its work outside the territory as

Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. said Monday it signed contracts to export four container cranes

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hile much of the civilized world is fixating on the World Wide Web's economic role as a platform for

American International Group Inc.'s chairman on Wednesday said ''the worst is over'' in terms of wea

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Europe's mountain of beef is back. Only a few years after the European Union had finally exhausted h

Barclays, the British banking group, Thursday announced it planned to cut 6,000 British jobs in 1999

The U.S. trade deficit in March rose to a record $19.7 billion, despite a modest increase in exports

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

As U.S.-based software technology companies look to Mexico to expand customer bases, many are findin

The world's largest gold producers are dancing to a Latin beat as development of new South American

Germany's Preussag Group on Wednesday said it signed a final agreement to sell its HDW shipyard and

May 19, 1999Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from suppliers

Despite a recent improvement in Algeria's fundamentals, the country's economic revival is not occurr

Cuban President Fidel Castro said sugar and non-sugar agricultural production grew 26 percent in the

An open food trading system is the only environmentally sound and sustainable way to feed the dense

The Indian government plans for the first time to involve its domestic industry at the ministerial m

Sweden's telecommunication giant Ericsson was awarded contracts valued at more than $175 million for

The failure to resolve a deadlock over a replacement for Renato Ruggiero at the World Trade Organiza