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Taiwan's principal ocean carrier is doubling its presence in Australia trades.Evergreen Mari

Banking titans are taking different approaches to the passage Wednesday of financial services reform

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

Uruguay is aggressively seeking to exploit its role as a pivot point for U.S.-Mercosur trade, offici

INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICERoy S. Nicolosi was named senior vice president and chief informati

In spite of low rates fueled in part by excess capacity, the alternative market, especially in Calif

May 14, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

SLOTS SAID TO BE EU'SPRICE FOR OK ON ALLIANCESBRUSSELS - United Airlines and Lufthansa must

WILMINGTON MARINE DAYTO HAVE A LATIN BEATWILMINGTON, Del. - The Port of Wilmington is highli

The tragic story of the sinking of the Titanic has been packing cinemas around the world, but Belfas

MAYWomen in International Trade - Northern California. May 16. San Francisco. International

'Whatever satisfaction they get from conducting tests, they're clearly going to pay for it.'

Despite intense competition in many classes, inland marine insurance continues to report attractive

Participants at a workshop on the Kenya coffee industry expressed concern at declining production an

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 223.10 off 0.28

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The government is selling the Port of Belfast in a share flotation that is expected to raise around

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s decision to go the full demutualization route may have weak

Call it the slow revolution. Providers of refrigerated equipment are gradually deploying new technol

The U.S. apple industry's answer to competition from foreign orchards is to turn to its longtime par

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has projected the U.S. 1998 rice crop at 183 million hundredweigh

David Hale, publisher of The Journal of Commerce, turned news-reporting upside down 150 years ago to

Wednesday May 13, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

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Only four out of Japan's 19 major industries enjoyed higher productivity than their U.S. counterpart

South Korea will eliminate restrictions on foreign ownership in its shipping industry and turn its r

May 13, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Europe's northern ports are in hot pursuit of some pretty cool business: Europe's share of the estim

The introduction of the euro will fundamentally alter the landscape of the insurance industry, creat

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 20, 1997 - May 13, 1998 (a graph)*

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

Mexico authorized 48 new maquiladora programs and approved the expansion of 70 plants in March 1998,

CZECH GOVERNMENT OKSFOREIGN INVESTMENT PLANPRAGUE - The Czech government has approved the co

Frontline Ltd., the acquisitive Bermuda-based shipowner, announced Tuesday it is adding 10 tankers t

Hong Kong is not the gateway to China's insurance market, said Standard & Poor's director of insuran

Keep it cool.Or, depending on the product, keep it cold. Very cold.That's what people in the

A combination of bad weather in Latin America, economic collapse in the Far East and growing competi

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker Rate Schedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Sched

Peter Massa plans to deliver a four-word speech on cargo theft at a seminar Friday in New Jersey: ''

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