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The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey was scrambling early Friday to put the finishing touches

Farmers counting on $2 billion in congressionally approved disaster aid will have to wait until June

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 189.49 off 1.07

Venezuela's economy will shrink an estimated 3.8 percent this year, the finance minister said, indic

Ecuador's deepening currency crisis is likely to crush import traffic but may trigger an increase in

The chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee has promised to examine the harbor m

France's Alcatel, Europe's second-largest phone equipment maker, said it would cut 12,000 jobs, or 1

The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in London and New York, include the f

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

Settlement of banking, insurance and labor claims related to the Nazi Holocaust against the German g

China's insurance sector is vibrant, with two dozen domestic and a handful of foreign players, but r

Mar. 11, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

U.S. farmers will see the lowest average price for their soybeans innearly a quarter century, $5.05

Shipping line competition in the Asia-to-U.S. trades ''has been all but eliminated . . . and there i

Maryland officials, in a bid to boost their chances to win a new superport for Sea-Land Service Inc.

Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced several changes to the agency's Office of Field Operati

Mexico reported a 2.2 percent year-on-year increase in exports at $8.25 billion for January, while i

Lexmark International, Lexington, Ky., will build a $33 million manufacturing plant in the Philippin

Canada ranks first in a KPMG survey comparing the G-7 countries and Austria in terms of how much it

Ireland's Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce Noel Treacy Friday announced the creation of

The potential for wild currency swings and the prospect of further rioting in Indonesia has the coff

The following trade leads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curr

Thanks to low wages and lucrative government incentives passed in the wake of Hurricane Mitch, more

The presidents of Bulgaria, Turkey and Romania signed an agreement on Thursday for a free-trade zone

Foreign investors scavenging for bargains amid the rubble of Asia's financial crisis could spark nat

The euro jumped two cents higher against the dollar last Thursday on news that German Finance Minist

While many U.S. ports are clamoring to convince the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge their waterway

The Surface Transportation Board announced the final scope for the environmental review of Dakota, M

997 (Mar. 12, 1999) Previous day - 978The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

Friday Mar. 12, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

The leads are classified and listed by their Harmonized System (HS) codes. U.S. firms should note th

The U.S. food aid program for Russia that began Friday will be free from corruption and fraud, the A

A certain amount of optimism is flowing through the container shipping business, at least on most lo

Railroad service providers are touting their consistency and improvement as reflected in the broad p

This article is the third and final in a series describing the importance for importers of retaining

Nike Inc. is being praised by critics for its pledge to reveal the locations of its overseas factori

Mexico's largest private business group, the Mexican Businessman's Council, said that it will invest

The Dominican Republic has tightened its banking regulations to counter money laundering and other f

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

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