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Two maritime industry groups are criticizing a move by the Panama Canal Commission to limit its liab

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MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY officials are working to round up New England exporters to make Boston'

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Chile's Senate late Wednesday approved a bill cutting across-the-board import tariffs to 6 percent f

Ivaran Lines , which calls at the Port of New York and New Jersey every Tuesday, switched from Maher

Agriculture Minister Som Pal said India would allow the export of milk and milk products.''T

One of Singapore's biggest maritime companies and a powerhouse Japanese construction and engineering

Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy says that ''not much has changed'' in Indone

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European Union steelmakers are planning to file anti-dumping complaints against newly competitive im

799 (September 17, 1998) Previous day - 790The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thu

The United States and Canada complained in a World Trade Organization session here against the Europ

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So far, so good.Customs has begun testing a quota preprocessing system for textiles and appa

SEPTEMBERY2K Issues and the Maritime Industry. Sept. 22. Wilmington, N.C. Meeting to explore

'I'm not saying the IMF is perfect, because it is not. But it needs funding to protect our national

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

Russia's steel industry has written Washington to propose negotiations on a plan for voluntary trade

Infoseek Corp., an Internet search engine, launched an auto insurance center this week to enable use

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Jour nal of Commerce. The leads are curr

Ohio Casualty Insurance Co. will acquire substantially all of the commercial lines division of Great

Travelers Property Casualty Corp. has entered the non-standard automobile insurance market in Florid

Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. and William Gallagher Associates, insurance brokerage and consulting firms, ha

Unistar Financial Service Corp. has signed definitive agreements to acquire U.S. Fidelity Holding Co

The Insurance Bureau of Canada strongly opposes the MacKay Task Force recommendation to increase ban

The headlines trumpeted the passage of a banking reform measure by the Senate Banking Committee last

Giant health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente receives high marks for both customer satisf

The tracks may be short, but short-line railroads form a large and growing transportation segment, a

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

As of Sept. 17, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

U.S. imports of meat from Australia and New Zealand are up sharply this year, giving ocean carriers

Where's the beef? And who's buying it?Those will be among the questions that some 400 meat t

Late in the last century, sheep ranchers had to fight cattle ranchers for survival in the range wars

The Asian financial crisis notwithstanding, U.S. meat exports this year are expected to chalk up ano

While the Asian crisis shouldn't dent U.S. and Japanese demand for Australian beef, demand from othe

The Federal Aviation Administration said it was proposing to fine AirNet Systems Inc. $200,000 for t

Long considered a villain in trade matters, Japan has so far saved the bacon for U.S. meat exporters

U.S. demand for imported red meat has risen this year, but efforts by Argentina and Uruguay to incre