Latest news

Legislation that would allow insurance companies and securities firms to combine with banks under a

Air Canada's nearly 5,000 flight attendants will vote soon on whether to strike later this month.

The city of Vitoria on Brazil's northeastern coastline may seem a strange place for a stopover betwe

Thousands of boxes of California cherries being loaded onto air freighters for delivery to Japan thi

Despite a drop in steel imports in recent months, U.S. steel industry executives said the crisis of

The relentless drive by terminal operators for larger facilities and greater container volumes will

The Panama Canal Authority has promoted Ricuarte Vasquez, the waterway's financial director, to depu

Aging, decrepit and war-battered equipment has turned Iraq's largest refinery into an economic and e

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

Canada and the United States have made progress in talks on their dispute over dividing the Pacific

More than 100 companies are expected at the first Peruvian Agro-Industrial trade mission to Californ

This colonial-era town at the mouth of Delaware Bay has offered up so many sons as ship pilots that

The Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, is trying to become a player in the competition for Gulf Coast co

A glut of air cargo capacity has created a buyer's market for shippers, according to Dave Brooks, pr

India's crude oil production dropped 2.8 percent to 32.9 million metric tons (230 million barrels) i

A report Congress expects next month from Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater was intended to pre

For more than a decade, U.S. companies have helped fuel the growth of the maquiladora sector, taking

Yang-ming Marine Transportation has opened the first phase of on-dock rail service at its 80-acre te

Air cargo carriers and logistics providers are hooked on pharmaceuticals. They love this industry be

The Austrian government has banned cultivation of a genetically modified maize produced by Monsanto

Continuing an upward trend since bottoming out in February, Mexico's preliminary April trade deficit

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging President Clinton to slap tariffs on cheap lamb imports fr

The United States filed a complaint last week with the World Trade Organization against France and t

Europe will become one big Wal-Mart.'

The euro could fall to parity with the U.S. dollar, analysts said, but not without a fight from Euro

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

Contship shufflestop management Contship Containerlines Ltd. has announced several manageria

May 28, 1999Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Spot price inflation rate smoothed, annualized *1999 High: 91.7 1999 Low: 86.71

May 28, 1999NO. 4/ NO. 6/ NO. 6/ 1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 20.3

Currency conversions issued by New York Federal Reserve, valid for Customs purposes under federal st

The African Development Bank closed its annual meetings here last week without obtaining the votes n

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

BRIDGE NEWS The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, i

May 27, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Maritime authorities and insurers are wrangling over the removal of the wreck of a luxury cruise lin

Issues that affect international trade and the maritime community will be the focus of the Mid-Atlan

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Air-freight businesses at Baltimore/Washington International Airport hope a planned cargo complex wi

May 28: 982