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Russia's exports of platinum group metals, the main source of this year's volatility in internationa

About three dozen multinational companies will invest $9 billion in energy joint ventures in Brazil

Tuesday Oct. 6, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Canadian National Railway Co. and Illinois Central Corp. have completed an agreement with the Brothe

In a partial victory for exporters who have had to pay the unconstitutional harbor maintenance tax,

The Surface Transportation Board pushed back its review of the planned Canadian National-Illinois Ce

Covenant Transport Inc. has bought a southwest Arkansas truckload hauler for $10.75 million and crea

Swissair is considering payments of up to $137,000 to families of those killed in the Flight 111 cra

Icelandair will begin a weekly all-cargo freighter service between Boston and Reykjavik, Iceland, be

Truckload hauler U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. has started a program to recruit drivers.With

Penske Logistics has expanded to five the number of regional distribution centers that it runs for R

The Russian economic turmoil has begun hitting some central European freight forwarders so hard that

Sony Computer Entertainment America and the U.S. Customs Service will get together today for what th

Professionals who specialize in Customs compliance can often feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of th

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The latest effort to bring together the two rail unions that represent U.S. rail train crews has fal

Shipping shares are tumbling on the Oslo stock market, the world's premier maritime exchange, as glo

The effects of U.S. maritime deregulation are coming to the West Coast of South America five months

House maritime leaders who recently said they would make next year's Congress the ''ocean shipping C

Direct loans to the Korean Development Bank will allow South Korean companies to purchase U.S. capit

Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater says 1999 will be the year of the maritime and aviation in

Coffee exports from Colombia's ports will be blocked during a nationwide strike scheduled to begin t

First there was the international quality assurance standard ISO 9000, from which came the auto indu

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsJun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. M

980 (October 6, 1998) Previous day - 975The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The following trade leads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curr

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

Oct. 6, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HIGH

Potential white knights to rescue crippled Philippine Airlines seem to be down to Hong Kong's Cathay

A leading climate expert said the global community is expected to adopt draconian licensing measures

DHL Worldwide Express today will officially inaugurate a hub facility in Panama City.The hub

The modest takeoff of China's first all-cargo airline in August belies possible fundamental changes

Puerto Rico is pushing two initiatives that will shake up the world of air cargo.One, coming

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Aeroflot, which is flying an Airbus A-310 from Washington Dulles Airport to Moscow nonstop with a vi

Three weeks ended Sep. 26, 1998, vs. similar 1997 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded<

Intended for Asia, they've wound up in Arizona.About two dozen Boeing jetliners are sitting

Wall Street's weakness continued to plague The Journal of Commerce Stock Index as transportation sto

American Freightways Inc., the interregional hauler of consolidated freight, is taking a 5.5 percent

Fukuyama Transporting Co., the $2 billion transport, warehousing and financial services group, is sp