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Poe & Brown Inc. has changed its name to Brown & Brown Inc.Brown & Brown is one of the two f

April 28, 1999Baltic International Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE

Finance ministers from the Group of 7 industrial nations will meet June 12 in Frankfurt, one week ah

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Kansas farm income fell 72 percent last year, making 1998 the worst year for farmers since the disas

Pacer International Inc., a logistics and intermodal marketing company, continued its acquisitions s

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Yellow Freight System, one of the largest trucking companies consolidating shipments in the less-tha

Schneider National Inc., North America's largest truckload hauler, has chosen a system made by Orbco

New York Regional Rail Corp. has bought a majority interest in regional trucker J.S. Transportation

Mark VII Inc., an intermodal marketing and logistics company, said net income increased nearly 40 pe

Three weeks ended April 17, 1999, vs. similar 1998 periodCars CarsLoaded Loade

Canadian nickel giant Inco Ltd. said Thursday there could be a strong recovery in nickel demand in 2

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In an ironic twist, officials prepared to discuss new efficiencies and safety for ships and shippers

Evergreen Marine Corp., Taiwan's leading container shipping company, and China Ocean Shipping Co., t

China is trumpeting its efforts to revise laws governing public-sector contracts, saying such moves

Thefts of computers and other high-tech cargo are on the rise, but shippers' legal and security prot

Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. Thursday said operating income at its domestic rail properties

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April 29, 1999No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 2

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he ATA carnet has been a godsend to many shippers, but users of this so-called merchandise passport

Zimbabwe will have a balance of payments deficit of $250 million this year, according to a forecast

Representatives of foreign and domestic companies are unfazed over further delays in opening India's

Chilean life insurance companies Banvida and P&S have purchased Bankers Trust's 49.75 percent stake

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'There is no great support in the public for spending one-and-a-quarter billion dollars to help Fort

The Textile Monitoring Body wants the United States to drop its attempt to limit imports of cotton y

International Asset Systems Ltd. (http://www.interbox.com and www.interasset.com) has introduced an

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

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An unusually broad coalition of banking and real estate groups in Texas wants their U.S. representat

An attempt by Vice President Al Gore to give agriculture more say in the scrapping of hundreds of pe

U.S. crude oil inventories fell by almost 5 million barrels in the week ended April 23 from the prev

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The Kosovo conflict has forced the intermodal and forwarding group Intercontainer-Interfrigo to alte