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August 26, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

New York Mercantile Exchange - August 25, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Aug. 25, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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A British-U.S. joint exploration venture has discovered what it says is ''significant'' deposits of

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Wednesday Aug. 26, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Some Japanese research institutes have succeeded in developing hard, anti-corrosive super aluminum u

U.S. crude oil inventories fell more than 5 million barrels in the week ended Aug. 21, as compared w

MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICENiel Bisset was named managing director of European life insurance.

Reflecting the consolidation in their own industries, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Internatio

A shakeout among the 850 active insurance companies operating in Asia is likely following the econom

The big Swiss insurers, with their sprawling networks and hefty balance sheets, are no strangers to

A jury in New Mexico awarded $2.7 million to a 79-year-old woman who burned herself opening a cup of

German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG posted a better-than-expected six-month profit of 924 million m

The Surface Transportation Board will allow Union Pacific Railroad to rebuild an abandoned rail line

Pilots for 11 airlines, including American Airlines and British Airways, agreed Wednesday to form a

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

China, long a pariah in international groups of all types, has joined the International Shipping Fed

Dockworker unions Wednesday staged a six-hour strike at Bangladesh's main port to protest plans by a

In a development observers see as positive for the Panama Canal, the administrator of the Panama Can

If Northwest Airlines' pilots go on strike, other employees face firings if they engage in a sympath

After a four-year struggle with the government, private cargo handling at Taiwan's main seaports may

The 2,100 pilots of Air Canada have set a strike deadline of midnight Tuesday, in an atmosphere seet

Hurricane Bonnie mauled key links of East Coast commerce Wednesday, shutting the massive harbor at H

The volume of intermodal cargo carried by Intercontainer-Interfrigo, the container marketing arm for

Leo Suggs, president and chief executive of Overnite Transportation, the nation's fifth-largest less

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

German shipping line Hamburg Sud has completed its acquisition of the liner trade business of South

An Amsterdam court on Wednesday issued an injunction against KLM pilots to prevent them from strikin

Even as Hurricane Bonnie pounds the Carolinas, businesses need to begin preparing an insurance claim

American Classic Voyages said it named Jon Rusten, formerly head of shipbuilding for the Disney Crui

Panamanians will go to the polls Sunday to cast ballots in a referendum with a vital bearing on who

The number of intra-European container services operated by the mainline carriers has increased by a

816 (August 26, 1998) Previous day - 815The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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

Some of the bloom is coming off important parts of Canada-United States traffic, certainly from sout

The U.S. trade imbalance with Asia is becoming a financial drag on West Coast ports and especially t

The Clinton administration has finally unveiled its proposal to replace the outlawed harbor maintena