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The tanker and bulk shipping markets increasingly resemble a high-stakes poker game. The bearish pla

year after spending $825 million to buy American President Lines of Oak- land, Calif., Neptune Or

Lost bags could become a thing of the past if an experiment with high-tech luggage tags works.

Seeing a window of opportunity that may last for only another year, shipping line in the eastbound t

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he next millennium will usher in a ''new world economic order'' as the world is on the path toward a

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The $63 million 1998 budget overseen by the Cotton Board, a U.S. cotton promotion program watched ov

he rapid globalization of the auto industry has helped to insulate oceangoing car carriers from glob

BOOZ ALLEN & HAMILTONLeo J. DonovanVice presidentMany people in the shipping industr

After several years of booming business, breakbulk carriers in the busy Latin America trade lanes ar

s the voice of shippers, the National Industrial Transportation League looks toward 1999 as a year

No story.

China and Taiwan are ex pected to be the twin engines of economic recovery in Asia this year. But

The Vancouver office of Greer Shipping Ltd. will serve as the western Canadian agency representative

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Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

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A Japanese-owned cargo ship that went missing three months ago has turned up at an eastern Chinese p

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Singapore fell into recession as 1998 ended, according to figures in the prime minister's New Year's

If West Coast ports spend billions of dollars to expand their marine terminals and infrastructure, t

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

A longstanding cam- paign by U.S. ocean carriers to pry open ports and shipping markets in Chin

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROADJohn D. McPhersonPresident, chief executiveThe final year o

here's little doubt as to how shipping deregulation will affect U.S. shipper associations.Th

Walt's on Second Street made its name offering piles of local crabs to crowds of local neighbors.

After more than two years of battling, planning and rehearsal, the curtain will soon go up on the

ith looming maritime deregulation already generating major changes in the U.S.-South American ocea

Orient Overseas Container Line has launched a weekly, joint service with China Railway Container Tra

aritime deregulation and expanded non-conference competition will combine to undercut the ability of

Regional economic turmoil clipped the earnings of one of Hong Kong's largest freight forwarders, but

More than 60 countries have approved a revised and more stringent International Roads Transport (TIR

Having made some headway in exploiting the dangerous methane gas that lurks in deep coal mines, Chin

e will remember 1998 as the year when international traders scored a huge judicial victory, as the

Gov. Tom Ridge has vetoed Senate Bill 279, which would have eliminated the requirement that motorcyc

While evaluating a share-swap offer from the Motor Club of America, North East Insurance Co. has dec

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Russian and Ukrainian steel exporters, pursuing low-cost sales and ad-hoc marketing arrangements, ar