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OFFERS TO BUY* BABY DIAPERS FROM USA. Client is looking for squashed pallets of baby diapers

July 23, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

RECENT VESSEL SALESSALEDATE VESSEL YEAR PRICE

TIG COUNTRYWIDE NOWNATIONWIDE OF AMERICABATTLE CREEK, Mich. - TIG Countrywide, the insurance

* Noon Thursday - The U.S. dollar was higher against the Japanese yen and the Deutsche mark, but it

If a major bank with cross-border operations were to fail, sorting out the claims would be a very me

Shareholders of Travelers Group Inc. and Citicorp on Wednesday approved the planned $70 billion merg

TRAVELERS GROUPSanford Weill, Travelers Group chairman of the board and chief executive, was

AIG SAW SECOND-QUARTERGROWTH IN NET INCOMENEW YORK - American International Group Inc. saw i

For the third time since 1996, workers compensation rates will be reduced across New York state.

MALAYSIA PLANSTRADE CLEARING HOUSEKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's Premier Mahathir Moham

Its pipes were leaking for some 40 years on the central California coast, and an oil company has agr

Atlantic Container Line posted pretax profit of $149 million for the first six months of the year, u

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 5, 1997 - July 23, 1998 (a graph)*

Negotiations over an application by China to join the World Trade Organization were held here this w

Dockworkers who shut down the Port of Oakland Wednesday may have returned to their jobs that afterno

Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state railway, has consolidated its position as Europe's top rail freight o

Three shipper organizations have asked the Surface Transportation Board to extend service orders tha

The United States and five Latin American banana exporting nations Thursday warned the European Unio

Major U.S. developers like Bechtel Enterprises and Fluor Daniel are carrying the U.S. flag into the

State Farm began selling homeowners insurance through InsWeb, the first online marketplace to offer

Few trade lanes present as complicated an operational scenario as does the Atlantic. As service cont

Rail congestion that has plagued Union Pacific Railroad for the past year continues to move around t

Hong Kong customs appointed the local unit of Swiss-based Societe General de Surveillance to handle

Dubbed the ''Port of Least Resistance'' because of spotty control over security, Port Everglades now

Longshoremen Wednesday morning shut down the Port of Oakland, Calif., in a dispute with waterfront e

Initial reports were that teen-age America was in a panic. It all started as soon as Time Magazine's

Allstate Insurance Co. filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two people and a Philadelphia firm seeking mo

Utility vehicles, promoted to potential buyers as strong and able to climb mountains, have very weak

Touching off a firestorm of controversy, a consumer advocate this week questioned the solvency of th

ALLSTATE'S PROFIT SOARED37.6 PERCENT IN 2ND QUARTERNORTHBROOK, Ill. - Second-quarter consoli

An investment group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and including five insurance companies has agreed

BILL WOULD FORCE INSURERSTO PAY FOR CONTRACEPTIVESWASHINGTON - Legislation to have contracep

BEAUMONT PORT'S VOLUMEUP 44 PERCENT IN 1ST QUARTERBEAUMONT, Texas - Cargo volume at the Port

A water ferry to shuttle cargo and passengers to and from San Francisco International Airport seems

On this side of the Atlantic, the topic of textile transshipments doesn't make tempers flare and hyp

On a muggy, overcast summer day at Port Everglades, a guard dozes in a car at the waterfront's South

House Republican leaders, sharply divided over whether to provide funds to recapitalize the Internat

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