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Thanks to new technology, airships filled with cut flowers soon may glide quietly over your head on

The Port of Houston Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have signed a Project Cooperative

RUSSIAN APPETITE FEEDS EAGERBALTIC BUSINESS IN IMPORTSThe financial turmoil in Russia hasn't

The Surface Transportation Board followed a familiar script in approving the Conrail breakup earlier

The Catalonia broke the record Wednesday as the commercial vessel with the fastest average speed in

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June 12, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

887 (June 11, 1998) Previous day - 887The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

925 (June 10, 1998) Previous day - 928The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

GLOSSARYGRAINS ETERNAL WIND, PAN flag, built 1997, 52,000-54,000 tons, heavy grains, soyas a

ONGOINGSeamen's Church Institute. New York. Water Street Gallery exhibits paintings by 20 ma

In a move that would fundamentally change the way port channel work is funded in the United States,

Spurred by the massive imbalance in Asian trade, the container shortage plaguing trans-Pacific carri

Swedish furnishings giant IKEA AB, mindful that it moves more than 100,000 containers around the glo

Stymied by a rising tide of freight theft, a prominent marine insurance executive has called on his

Two years after the central government signed a landmark peace pact with Muslim rebels in the southe

Foreign investment is one of the main spark plugs that has revved the Philippine economic engine ove

JAXPORT BREAKS GROUNDON NEW CARGO BUILDINGJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Port Authori

The Brazilian government has updated its broad privatization program and in doing so fixed a date fo

Canada's Thunder Bay Terminals Ltd. is making progress toward picking up a large piece of coal busin

Kay-Bee Toys, trying to meet the customers' need for efficiency, has chosen Fritz Cos. to handle its

The United States within days will start the process of taking Canada to arbitration in another resu

The congressional ethics committee has agreed to a request from federal prosecutors not to conduct i

Rebelling against what some consider a lax Clinton administration response to increases in drug ship

PLANESAIR FRANCE IN SURPRISEACCORD WITH ITS PILOTSPARIS - Air France signed

Admittedly, it's a little hard to get excited about a new version of a Web browser coming on the mar

Lykes Lines next week will expand its service in Mexico and the U.S. Gulf but will drop service thro

The cash-strapped Thai government has put more than a fifth of its national airline up for sale, a m

European Competition Commissioner Karel Van Miert said Wednesday he would make a decision on the all

15 INDIAN OCEAN NATIONSSIGN IMO PORT ACCORDLONDON - The International Maritime Organization

The European Union next week will launch a process that promises, in time, to boost exports from the

With less than a month to go before the International Safety Management code comes into force, chart

Several air courier companies complain they are missing flights and losing clients in the face of in

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Transportation planners in Washington want an Alameda Corridor of their own.And they are hop

Two years ago Lykes Bros Steamship Co., a storied name in American shipping, was on the precipice of

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

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Authorities in Thailand are investigating a rash of complaints about allocation of export quotas on