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CMA-GGM, France's largest ocean carrier, Wednesday reported consolidated net profit of $18.7 million

Actual foreign investment in Vietnam fell sharply in the first nine months of this year to $1.1 bill

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Wednesday accused the International Monetary Fund of tryin

The Federal Maritime Commission said it will accept comments until Oct. 23 from shippers, transporta

India will receive a World Bank loan worth 53.76 billion rupees ($1.25 billion) for the Bombay Urban

Indonesia's exports rose 1.5 percent in July from a year earlier, reversing months of negative expor

Union officials and the management of Levi Strauss are seeking ways to fend off massive job cuts at

The U.S. Customs Service has released details on the seizure of nearly 40,000 counterfeit compact di

Ocean Group PLC, the British logistics company, announced Wednesday that it has bought A.W. Fenton C

A Continental Airlines Boeing 777 on a test flight from Newark, N.J., to Tokyo made an emergency lan

The Port of Karachi Wednesday was paralyzed by a violent strike called by the Mutahida Qaumi Movemen

The United States drew international criticism in 1995 for issuing more than two dozen trade restrai

Oman boosted its chances of early entry into the World Trade Organization by improving its market-ac

Sauer-Sunstrand Inc., a maker of hydraulic power systems and components has awarded Emery Worldwide

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

TRW Inc., a global manufacturing and service company based in Cleveland, has set up a regional offic

An article, headlined ''Patient rights bill faces fight'' on Page 8A of the Monday, Oct. 5, edition,

GatesMcDonald, an affiliate of the Nationwide Insurance Enterprise has acquired Healthcare First Inc

In the shadow of towering apartment buildings, a living monument to victims of the worst Dutch air d

Travelers Group's stock symbol TAP will be seen for the last time today on the New York Stock Exchan

Insurers are expected to pay $2.5 billion to victims of Hurricane Georges in Puerto Rico, the U.S. V

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 88-11 to approve a ''motion to proceed'' on a major overhaul of b

From ''highway robbers'' in the Alps to Green politicians in Bonn, German motor carriers have sudden

Cigna International, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. and Dr. Parvinder Singh have f

The first stage of South Korea's insurance reorganization appears to be over as seven life underwrit

The Customs Modernization Act, which gave life to the automated programs designed to bring the Custo

Cendant Corp. said it terminated its agreement to acquire Providian Auto and Home Insurance Co. and

A Mexican-Japanese auto parts joint venture, with government support, will be the first firm to set

U.S. Customs has given importers and retailers a double dose of textile transshipping information wi

Germany's BMW AG has set its hopes on an expansion of regional trade with the establishment of a 1 b

Nationwide Insurance said it received more than 12,000 property damage claims from last month's Hurr

A Texas state court jury assessed Chrysler Corp. $64 million in damages in a lawsuit stemming from a

Jay Angoff resigned as state insurance commissioner after nearly six years.Mr. Angoff, 47, s

National AssociationIndependent InsurersRobert L. Dibblee, former chief of staff/administrat

''This is absolutely, positively wonderful for all shippers because carriers will finally have to le

After a 13-year beneficial relationship, Nationwide and Wausau found they no longer had much in comm

Without commenting, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insuranc

Private life and health insurance premiums are projected to continue their upward path in most of th

When is a carrier a shipper? When is a shipper a carrier? A forwarder a shipper? Or a carrier? And w

Non-vessel-operating common carriers have evolved into a thriving industry wielding substantial powe