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Shifts in market share among Western railroads and external events like the General Motors strike an

The Indian government is proposing to more tightly regulate and monitor the functioning of non-banki

Six European insurers - Allianz, Generali, Basler Leben, Winterthur,Zurich and AXA-Uap - have signed

Swedish automaker Volvo AB said it will close its assembly plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in Decembe

Americans who spend more and stay longer are giving Canada its best travel and tourism year in a dec

Nepal will ask India to allow freight easier access to Indian ports, a top official said.Tal

The ocean marine hull and cargo reinsurance market is soft and getting softer, like ''meringue,'' sa

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said it will cut the interest rate on ordinary postal s

Shanghai authorities seized more than 50,000 pirated video disks in an anti-piracy sweep around the

China's official newspapers said Monday the government has decided in principle to grant the same ta

Dutch banking and insurance giant ING Groep NV said it will acquire U.S. real estate asset manager C

Although the Ministry of Transportation insists it is pushing deregulation as hard as it can, some f

Looking into their crystal balls, insurance professionals reached no consensus on the surplus lines

One factor sometimes mentioned by outside observers as inhibiting shipowners from exercising their n

The port industry's pattern of widespread mutual back-scratching is typical of other industries here

Kitty Hawk Inc. and Southern Air Transport Inc. have terminated their merger discussions.The

The Surface Transportation Board released a schedule for the environmental review of the proposed ac

EVA Airways Corp., a unit of Evergreen Marine Corp., said Tuesday it lost 583.8 million New Taiwan d

Martinair Cargo's expansion in North America will begin with a launch of freighter service direct to

A leading Senate Jones Act critic said Tuesday that he would try to alter the cornerstone maritime l

Insurers, brokers, agents and industry providers constantly introduce products and services. There a

Union Pacific Railroad told the Surface Transportation Board Monday that substantial operating probl

Parker Pen Co. made a fool of itself in Latin America when its message, ''Use Parker and avoid embar

From Albania to Zimbabwe, foreign governments are all but accusing the U.S. Federal Communications C

Importers who file Customs entries on many different types of products know from experience that fig

The number of ships lost or written off fell to a 10-year low in 1997, according to statistics unvei

FORD MOTOR CO.James J. Padilla was named president of Ford South American Operations as of A

Indonesia's 13,000 islands have always posed a formidable threat to the economy.Simply put,

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South Korea's shipyards continue to prop up an otherwise flagging economy, with order books reaching

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