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The world's total world ship order book rose 4 percent in the third quarter of 1998 from the previou

CURRENT TEXTILE QUOTAS:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

The Commerce Department has taken a defiant stand on new congressional requirements to scrutinize ex

More than a dozen inland waterway tow boat firms face courtroom trials in the next two months over t

A formal signing ceremony could be as early as Wednesday that would allow the long-awaited deepening

The crew of a deadbeat Pakistani ship who chose to be seized by U.S. instead of Mexican authorities

The United States and Britain are scheduled to resume talks on a new aviation agreement on Feb. 17,

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

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A South Florida firm that deals in the sale and resale of life insurance policies was charged with d

In the first few days of the new year, meat prices in Kazakhstan's capital Astana jumped on average

For the first time, a majority of Danes support entry into the European single currency, the euro, t

787 (Jan. 11, 1999) Previous day - 791The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

Takashi Imai, head of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren), said Monday that t

Britain's state-owned Post Office made its first major foreign acquisition Monday with the takeover

United Airlines saw a dip in air freight handled in December compared with a year earlier, but poste

The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday recommended that airlines perform expedited inspe

As time goes by, the railroads' fourth quarter traffic results and earnings outlook are still the sa

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France will sell part of the state's capital in Air France by the end of March and the share price w

A comprehensive new study of the international air freight and express industry found that the daily

eeking ways to harness the most powerful new business tool on the planet, air cargo professionals fr

ntegrated air cargo carriers are rapidly trying to redefine themselves as Internet air cargo carrier

Boeing and Space Systems/Loral, a wholly owned subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, finalized

*Jan. 7, 1999U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Canada's $18.6 billion (US$12 billion) property/casualty insurance industry will be a hard place to

Argentina's biggest supermarket chains have asked the government for protection after incidents in w

Finnish telecommunications equipment group Nokia said it has signed a $280 million contract for the

LONDON - The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Jan. 6, 1999 as supplied by the bunke

In a blow to overseas creditors, China will try to wind up a major trust firm and send banks to the

Russia's battered ruble hit a record low on Monday after starting the New Year in a stubborn downwar

The Maritime Administration said there is no need to amend regulations governing the placement of ma

The Romanian State Ownership Fund said it will sell its 75.06 percent stake in the chemical complex

ACE Ltd. and Cigna Corp. are expected to complete a $3 billion deal this week that, if approved, wou

A new buzzword, ''disintermediation,'' has been making the insurance circuit lately but many industr

f the purpose of insurance is to bring peace of mind to people in exchange for a small premium, why

A Nigerian court freed 58 failed bank chiefs who were detained without trial for at least two years,

The name of the individual responsible for the trade office at the Mexican embassy in Washington, D.

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

A range of Thai banks, think tanks and government agencies are predicting that Thailand's exports wi