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SCL of Antwerp will now be operating as Safmarine Container Line, Safmarine said in a statement.

The House and Senate are voting today on a massive omnibus budget package that includes $17.9 billio

The U.S. Department of Agriculture may delay the compliance deadline on its ban on untreated wood pa

As shipping deregulation makes greater consolidation and competition possible, intermodal truckers c

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

Lingering fears of a global recession are putting increased pressure on the Canadian government to s

Key gubernatorial elections this Sunday could determine how far Brazilian President Fernando Henriqu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Nov. 12, 1997 - Oct. 19, 1998 (a graph)*

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said Monday the U.S. trade deficit could balloon to ar

World steel trade is forecast to fall in volume terms this year by 7.5 percent to 8 percent compared

Antitrust policy in North and South America and the European Union will be the focus of Fordham Univ

'Ocean carriers are already leaving conferences in droves, and when it's all said and done, the conf

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Michel Camdessus said he saw more advantages than disa

Zahary Zhelyazkov, executive director of Bulgaria's Privatization Agency, said last week: ''We are o

General Motors Corp. produced its first automatic transmission at its Shanghai joint venture last we

Outbidding Ford Motor Co. and two domestic competitors, Hyundai Motor Co. was tentatively selected a

The Indian government is likely to raise the duty on sugar high enough to stop imports, a sugar indu

Massachusetts officials want a regional milk-pricing commission to provide small New England dairy f

Oct. 16, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Oct. 19, 1998This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

Scientists have released new breeding lines of a grain crop, hoping to boost the nutrition value of

More than 100 high school seniors will win an American General Character Stars Scholarship next year

Monsanto has stopped fretting about its failed merger and turned its attention to surviving as an in

Marsh & McLennan Cos. and Sedgwick Group PLC announced last week that they have received clearance f

Russia may suffer shortages of meat, vegetable oil and butter - key staples in most Russians' diets

Monday Oct. 19, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

The Commerce Group Inc. last week said that its subsidiary, the Commerce Insurance Co., is engaged i

Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. President Koichi Yoshida said last week that the yen's recent rise again

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Allstate Insurance has realigned its senior management team to coincide with Edward Liddy's becoming

With five of seven sectors posting impressive gains, The Journal of Commerce Stock Index rumbled to

Brazil's top infrastructure projects are likely to face delays or reduced government contributions a

Germany's Lufthansa Cargo AG and its Scandinavian counterpart, SAS Cargo, have agreed to share their

The Morris County Chamber of Commerce will present a morning workshop on ''Successfully Financing Ex

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

Russia's leading steelmakers are scrambling to offset an estimated $500 million in lost sales to the

Five Japanese petrochemical companies will ask the government to impose anti-dumping duties on a pro

Total Energy Services Ltd. has canceled its 3.8 million Canadian dollar (US$2.5 million) acquisition

Chevron Corp. said it sees its 295,000 barrel-per-day Pascagoula, Miss., refinery, restarting in Nov

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