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A disgruntled Air China pilot hijacked his own jet - with 104 people aboard - to Taiwan on Wednesday

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Canada and Mexico have agreed to resume trade in potatoes, mainly of Canadian seed potatoes to Mexic

Companies that lease marine containers say they are saving ocean carriers millions of dollars in rep

Faced with possible food shortages this winter, Russia has asked the United States for significant q

The United States must push harder for official contacts with Iran to avoid damaging the fragile pro

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. and the American Trucking Associations said they will establish a Truck

Northwest Airlines Corp., which has vowed to pursue its alliance with Continental Airlines Inc. desp

Texaco Inc. has begun drilling the first of a proposed four exploratory wells for coalbed methane in

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 202.94 off 1.82 w

V Ships of Monaco and Britain-based Celtic Marine merged Wednesday, creating the world's largest shi

Anglo-Norwegian engineering and construction giant Kvaerner ASA said Wednesday it named Kjell Almsko

Russia's Minister of Trade Georgi Gabounia signalled here Monday his country will make a market acce

Dutch financial services company ING Group said Tuesday that more jobs may be shed at its Barings un

Tanker traffic will be limited through the Bosporus, Turkey said this week, just days before oil com

Bankrupt North Korea may be disappointed by the small number of Western aircraft taking advantage of

Industri-Matematik International Corp. has been awarded, in partnership with Oracle Corp., a major s

Canadian aerospace and transportation company Bombardier Inc. said it has won a contract worth 165 m

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

In international business, where credit has become increasingly scarce and liquidity is drying up, A

First Union Corp. of Charlotte, N.C., has become one of the first commercial lenders to purchase an

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. confirmed that it has agreed to sell its British-based London

Hong Kong's insurance industry expanded 12.4 percent in premium terms last year, sharply up from the

Records are being set. Competitors are challenging one another to go to the limits. It is a time lik

Northwest Airlines and Air China began reciprocal code-sharing service Tuesday, but cooperation on c

Oct. 27, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HIGH

Dubai is preparing to launch a passenger ferry service to Iraq, reviving an ancient travel route and

Rollins Truck Leasing Corp. reported net income of $15.3 million for the fiscalfourth quarte

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

Panama's ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party elected Martin Torrijos as its presidential candidate

Sea-Land Service Inc. said that it will set up its European shared service center in Cork, Ireland,

How to use:Trade leads are sent to the USDA from U.S. agricultural attaches, counselors and

The $200 billion-plus American wood products industry has persuaded government officials to launch a

Net income for the third quarter of 1998 at Transamerica Corp. was $124.1 million, a drop from the t

Net operating income from Torchmark Corp.'s insurance operations was $79 million for the third quart

Sairgroup has signed a cooperation agreement with South African Airways.''As a first product

Emery Worldwide, a global heavyweight cargo transportation company based in Palo Alto, Calif., celeb

A rebuttal filing at the Surface Transportation Board by a group seeking wider rail competition in T

An anti-dumping claim filed here last week by Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology against Taiwan co

An argument over intellectual property is threatening a 50-year business partnership between a ''fla