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

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

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

The world's largest privately owned stand of ancient redwoods will be transformed into a public pres

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America will acquire Arista Insurance Co.'s entire block of group

A powerful California lawmaker has virtually single handedly killed S.B. 225, a measure that would h

Productivity at West Coast ports continues to erode despite huge investments in terminals and equipm

In a searing summer sun, Pat Lee staves off the near 100-degree heat and thinks of colder matters. H

State-owned Shipping Corp. of India has stopped calling at the Port of Calcutta indefinitely because

Frank K. Turner, a rail executive with experience operating regional railroads, was selected by a se

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

817 (September 2, 1998) Previous day - 817The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Joan Bondareff, chief counsel at the Maritime Administration, will retire on Sept. 30.A pres

The Port of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is anticipating an increase in cargo from Uganda, following the

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

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A prominent consulting firm's request for a court to decide if a decade-old computer software contra

Ampace Corp. has sold its Orlando, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, operations to LinkAmerica Corp. of Tuls

Schneider Logistics Inc., the third-party logistics subsidiary of trucking company Schneider Nationa

Stevens Air Transport, a freight forwarder, has established a regional headquarters to promote sales

The Philippines may tap into a $1.4 billion standby International Monetary Fund loan after shelving

'The emperor has been exposed as having no clothes. The whole thing underneath was rotten.'

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

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

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A planned pipeline to take crude oil from Chad to a port in Cameroon faces construction delays if ci

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Chinese ocean carriers are showing buoyant results in the face of regional economic uncertainty.

The American Waterways Operators said all of its members have achieved compliance with safe-operatin

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curre

Canada's independent property/casualty insurance brokers, worried that the country's nationally char

FUTURES - September 1, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - August 31, 1998All life-of-

A government panel will review aviation policies to see how they could be modified to help rescue Ph

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

A closely watched rate case that pits Union Pacific Railroad against FMC Corp., a major shipper of s

Leave it to the U.S. auto industry. These are the guys who didn't listen in the '60s and '70s when p

Air Canada's 600 daily flights carrying 60,000 passengers and cargo to international markets were gr

The Commerce Department has announced it is imposing a countervailing duty on imports of South Afric

As the International Monetary Fund comes to grips with its inability to stave off a financial collap