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Thailand wants farm export subsidies to be eliminated when global trade talks begin Nov. 30 in Seatt

As they ponder a world of deregulated container-shipping, the industry's middlemen are divided over

PXRE Corp.Jeffrey H. Mayer will join PXRE Reinsurance Co. as an executive vice president res

John Williams is preparing to write a letter he hopes will make life easier for thousands of U.S. ma

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

Eagle USA Airfreight Inc., the largest domestic air freight forwarder, reported strong results for t

The Federal Maritime Commission may never again experience another workload crunch like the one it w

Tariff, under the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, means a publication containing the actual rates

Insurance coverage on exports from South Korea nearly doubled last year, though only about one-fifth

The largest bulk carrier built in the Philippines was launched by President Joseph Estrada at Tsunei

Mexico registered a preliminary trade deficit of $294 million for March, with exports up 9.1 percent

Israeli manufacturers are optimistic exports will rise during the coming months despite the poor per

Japan's Mitsui & Co. has joined with an Indian transport company to provide dedicated logistics solu

Some restaurants are taking shark off the menu to save the species. Swordfish, also vanishing from m

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Federal Maritime Commissioner John Moran put the dawning of the shipping deregulation era into persp

atin American companies, especially those in Brazil, are subject to a wide variety of mandatory test

ledgling exporter Ribus Inc. of St. Louis was the toast of Germany recently.Ribus, a small m

he U.S. Export-Import Bank named five asset-based lenders to its delegated authority lenders program

995 (April 27, 1999) Previous day - 972The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

'There has to be a passion at the railroad. It can't be a good-old-boy situation.'

Canada will appeal a World Trade Organization ruling affecting its exports of regional jet aircraft

A scandal tarnishing Brazil's Central Bank is undermining recent optimism that Latin America's large

The Canadian government has joined U.S. traders in opposing a Clinton administration proposal to cha

Airborne Freight Corp., the holding company of Airborne Express, on Tuesday reported disappointing f

United Parcel Service, demonstrating a recovery from labor troubles and an improvement in overseas o

One of the most important questions an importer can research when starting a new business is how to

The 77 cows Dennis Meyer milks every day on his 384-acre farm in Dubuque County may become too expen

April 26, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 189.01 off 0.70 wh

NORTH AMERICAThe 1999 International Supermarket Industry Convention & Educational Exposition

China Peregrine Food Corp., North Palm Beach, Fla., and Lance Inc., Charlotte, N.C., announced an ex

Insurers and government officials spend tremendous amounts of time and money to assess risk, but a r

Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. donated $100,000 to the Spencer Educational Foundation to

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A shipment of 1,500 giant Italian Parmesan cheeses worth about $2.2 million has disappeared without

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsJan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. O

Russia will continue to deliver oil sold under contract to Yugoslavia despite an embargo imposed by

The Port of Kelang, armed with an ambitious cost-cutting plan and a sharp rise in first-quarter cont

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