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Union Pacific Railroad told the Surface Transportation Board that its service levels showed steady i

With financial markets reeling after Monday's 512-point sell-off on the New York Stock Exchange, exp

The international trade community is hoping for a return to normalcy now that the main Brazilian uni

Boeing Co., faced with disappointing earnings and a plunging stock price, ousted the president of it

Although shipping giant P&O Nedlloyd has digested its takeover of tiny Blue Star Line, the merged co

Roadway Services Inc. said its third-quarter financial results would fall approximately 60 percent s

A DHL cargo plane skidded on a runway during landing late Monday, injuring two crewmembers and closi

Time, trade politics and the continuing opposition of a group of senators led by Maine Republican Ol

A chemical port under construction on India's western coast will go on stream by October 1999, a top

Trans World Airlines Inc. pilots said Monday they ratified a four-year labor contract that gives the

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Jim McKay knew it was time to abandon the traditional insurance loss surveyor and hire a bulldog-tou

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

The U.S. Customs Service has revoked the licenses of 520 customs brokers, because they failed to pro

France is out of the swirl of the economic hurricanes roiling global financial markets.But t

The European Commission has said it sees no major changes in its European Union 1998 forecasts.<

Two forest product carriers operating mainly along the U.S. West Coast and British Columbia are join

'Finding the right-sized railroad is a big question. UP must match their capacity to expected growth

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Aug. 26, 1998 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

Exporters may start receiving refunds of the unconstitutionally collected harbor maintenance tax as

Boeing Co. does not plan to abandon joint projects with its Russian partners amid the economic crisi

The California Maritime Academy on Sept. 17 will begin offering a five-module program on global logi

China announced a rescue package of up to 1 trillion yuan ($120 billion) in bank loans to help agric

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

The border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is taking a toll on the Eritrean ports of Assab and Mass

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

In response to stabilizing fuel costs, Matson Navigation Co. is canceling its 1 percent fuel surchar

817 (September 1, 1998) Previous day - 817The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Microsoft Corp. launched the mainland Chinese version of its Windows 98 operating system this week,

Finland in August became the first country to have more than 50 mobile phones per 100 inhabitants, w

The State Department has issued revised guidelines that should allow U.S. imports of some shrimp fro

The International Maritime Organization is taking steps to combat rising piracy in the South China S

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has lifted a five-year moratorium on live panda imports to allow

A large wind-driven wildfire destroyed at least 26 homes Monday, and authorities ordered evacuations

With Hong Kong declared officially in recession, officials are stressing the need for the territory'

Policyholders of FCCI Mutual Insurance Co. have approved the mutual's reorganization to create a mut

Diplomats from China and Poland show a keen interest in farm technology. An official from South Afri