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The peak shipping season is five months away, but time is running out for shippers who have not star

After several pilot runs over the last two years, Customs' current reconciliation program enables im

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

In 1996, union and management teams negotiating a three-year West Coast longshore contract left seve

'The situation on the North Atlantic is getting worse, so, at this moment, we cannot talk about the

Pakistani shippers last week protested that a $150 rate increase announced for shipments to and from

While European competition for logistics and forwarding services is heating up, many German customer

Proponents of changes in a law governing who pays for damaged cargo say they expect their bill to pa

British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, formerly Avro International Aerospace, has chosen SAP AG's R/3

Freight forwarder AEI sold about 30 percent of its stake in Equant N.V., an international data netwo

Strength among the air express and forwarders/third-party sectors led The Journal of Commerce/Bridge

Standard & Poor's rating agency said Monday that it downgraded five Chinese financial institutions.<

Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz said Monday that the government

ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUPDonna Galer, executive vice president of Strategic Alignment

Mar. 1, 1999Baltic International Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HI

Bill Kirven has been appointed Colorado's insurance commissioner, succeeding Jack Ehnes.Mr.

978 (Mar. 1, 1999) Previous day - 964The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lond

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

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 26, 1999Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 182.95 off 1.79 wh

Railroad and trucking trade group executives continue to say they're willing to discuss issues of mu

The United States and Europe may be stepping back from a potential trade war over new European Union

A federal grand jury has accused Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. of falsifying oil discharge records on

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsNov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun.July Aug

A Senate panel plans to hold hearings this month into a series of export control problems that have

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the official trade promotion body of the territory, has org

Chinese brokers and stock exchanges tested their computers for the ''millennium bug'' late last mont

f you're shipping products by air across the Atlantic, now is a good time to get extremely low rates

s Laurence Jacobs rides his bike through fields of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme along the sceni

Principal Financial Group reported net income of $693.0 million for 1998, up 52.8 percent over the $

Monday Mar. 1, 1999Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Moves to liberalize the Philippine retail energy sector could have benefits beyond the obvious for U

Ontario's Ministry of Transportation has developed a written test for truck drivers.''Throug

Greenbrier Cos. said it has completed refinancing $30 million in senior term notes.The move

Talgo Inc.'s tilt trains are now running on Amtrak's new Cascades service between Seattle and Vancou

Stevedoring operations at the Port of Antwerp and insurance businesses helped the Belgian maritime c

A cargo ship carrying a controversial shipment of nuclearwaste has left France and will pass through

European Union agriculture ministers Monday postponed marathon negotiations on cuts in farm subsidie

Businesses importing from China should be prepared to abandon hardwood packaging and pallets because