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Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, the nation's largest grain-hauling railroad, is expanding

Amtrak said it now is handling time-sensitive freight shipments between Chicago andEastern cities fo

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The international trade community is nervously watching Latin American stock and currency markets, l

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

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 17, 1997 - Sept. 3, 1998 (a graph)*

Even before the financial crisis forced a countrywide halt to banking and commerce in Russia in Augu

The U.S. Customs Service has reported its first-ever bust of drugs hidden in a railcar in South Texa

Confirming in voice what the international trade community in Mexico intuitively knows, Mexican Pres

Thailand, with economic reforms under way, could be a beneficiary of investment funds fleeing from M

The Brazilian government has postponed for two months the sale of Fepasa, the final and most-prized

The chances of Northwest Airlines recovering quickly from the pilots strike that has grounded all 1,

Steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional won control of the main container terminal at Brazil's Por

Two longtime rivals have emerged as dominant forces in the East Coast tugboat business, extending so

BellSouth International and its partners said their Brazilian cellular business is serving 535,000 c

No British firm has pulled out of the country's trade mission to Russia next week despite the crisis

824 (September 3, 1998) Previous day - 817The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Hungary's unemployment rate fell, to 9.0 percent in August from 9.2 percent in July, due to continue

The new Non-Aligned Movement chairman, South African President Nelson Mandela, said South Africa was

Sept. 3, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

789 (September 3, 1998) Previous day - 789The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thur

'As banks see markets evaporating around the world, they will be more cautious in extending credit.'

The pace of economic decline in most Asian countries is slowing, particularly in South Korea and Tha

The first and arguably most difficult of nine negotiating committees trying to forge a hemispheric f

Ship fixtures are a product of Knight-Ridder Financial, TNT, the industry's only reliable source of

New York will add its first weekend departure for intermodal rail cargo moving into the interior thi

Mexican Finance Minister Jose Angel Gurria met with The Journal of Commerce and a small group of oth

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

At 73, John Bowers is still molding the International Longshoremen's Association in his own image. A

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsMay Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Fe

ONGOINGAssociation of Ship Brokers and Agents. Applications for home study course, ''Basic P

The Year 2000 crisis - the computer problems that await the world when the ball drops in Times Squar

New York Mercantile Exchange - September 1, 1998PREV. LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH

Wednesday Sept. 2, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 198.70 up 3.02 wh

September 2, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily repres

International Petroleum ExchangeSeptember 1, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Sept. 2, 1998RESELLER RACK UNLEADED MID- PREMIUM-UNLE

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