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Much-anticipated legislation to deregulate container shipping - after years of debate, drafting and

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

Oct. 1, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

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Britain's gas industry broke into the $100 billion continental European market Thursday with the ope

The U.S. International Trade Commission is being asked to recommend tariffs and quotas on imported l

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, exporters in unified Germany worked hard to rebuild commerce with

Thailand's economic reform agenda has received a boost with a major Cabinet reshuffling, set to more

Chartwell Re Corp., through a subsidiary, has purchased all the outstanding capital stock of Limit (

Allstate Corp. has sold its portfolio of investment properties, totaling 10 million square feet, to

German credit insurer Hermes, which handles government-backed export guarantees, has signed a mutual

South Africa's communist-led labor movement Cosatu has bought into an insurance company that it hope

Shiptrac, the covert tracking system launched by Marine Risk Management Group of Switzerland this su

Commercial banks and insurance agents have reworked a key section of a pending banking reform bill,

International insurers must abandon government confrontation for a common-sense approach to maximize

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The U.S. Supreme Court this week agreed to review an appellate court decision that workers compensat

A California trade organization representing 5,000 psychologists filed a lawsuit against Aetna USHea

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Crowley Marine Services on Thursday will christen the Guide, the third of its new Harbor-class tugbo

DHL Worldwide Express has won a contract to transport small packages on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pac

AMF, a global manufacturer and marketer of bowling products, has chosen Emery Worldwide's global log

Vastera, a supply chain management software company, has signed a licensing agreement with the New Z

Latvia has successfully completed its five-year bid to join the World Trade Organization, after the

'Businessmen can postpone their travel, but you cannot do that to cargo.'

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Comesa, will transform its clearing house into a

Brazilian customs officers, whose strike and work-to-rule protests have severely disrupted trade, lo

Officials from Gulf Arab states have drafted a proposal for a long-planned unification of custom tar

The big Czech banks are having difficulty gaining loans from abroad, a frequent source of financing

Since September 1997, Japanese banks gave up a total of 16 bank licenses in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong M

Germany's DSR-Senator Lines GmbH and Transportacion Maritima Mexicana Wednesday told the Trans-Atlan

Three more appeals have been filed to challenge portions of the Surface Transportation Board's July

Everyone knows that the shipping business is hurting, but the parent of American President Lines stu

AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines, the second-largest U.S. air carrier, said it will sell a cor

Levi Strauss Europe, the European subsidiary of U.S. blue jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co., said it wo

Canadian heavy oil producer Amber Energy Inc. served notice this week that it plans to fight Alberta

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Japan and the European Union will hold minister-level talks this month, addressing economic issues r

The Asian financial crisis is expected to bottom out in the first-half of next year with a number of

Wednesday Sept. 30, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen