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The state of Alaska has filed legal arguments supporting an oil-field construction permit that was c

The troubles of former Port of Miami Director Carmen Lunetta appear to be mounting, amid allegations

RailTex Inc., San Antonio, a short-line rail holding company, has taken another step toward building

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. said it extended a coal transportation contract for shi

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In the final chapter of their most successful negotiating season in years, container shipping lines

Malaysia has opened its largest express gateway in the northwestern high-tech zone of Penang, an are

Russia's railways soon will increase average speeds of freight trains to 100 miles an hour on lines

The trucking industry has a lot at stake in the pending renewal of U.S. highway legislation. But one

Two railroads and two transportation marketing companies reported earnings for the first three month

Greece has temporarily shut down 24 of 150 unlicensed television stations broadcasting pirated Ameri

The timetable for House action on the ocean shipping deregulation bill will depend on a meeting betw

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

Europe's politicians and central bankers are about to hand over the euro to the businessmen.

Footwear imports are usually shipped by ocean vessel, with air freight normally reserved for samples

Optimism surrounding Europe's planned economic and monetary union carried the Deutsche mark higher l

Like other footwear-producing nations, Brazil is facing a tough challenge from China, which now prod

Administration officials say they are bracing for serious damage to trade and diplomatic relations w

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WTO NAMES ARBITRATORSIN US-EU BEEF DISPUTEGENEVA - World Trade Organization chief Renato Rug

Footwear giant Reebok International will condition future investment in Mexico on cooperation and en

'Space (on a ship) is a major concern. I'm more concerned about space than price.'

HOECHST OPENSNEW JERSEY DRUG UNITBRIDGEWATER, N.J. - Hoechst Marion Roussel, the pharmaceuti

The United States urged Japan last week to take additional steps to open its markets and to shore up

Japanese Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi said Japan will quicken disbursement of financial aid to Thai

The United States may be slapping Turkey with new limits on its underwear exports barely a month aft

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 20, 1997 - Apr. 30, 1998 (a graph)

A senior official said Wednesday the International Monetary Fund would make its next payments to tro

Senate agriculture leaders, angered by last year's rail crisis in the Midwest and facing an El Nino-

It's Feb. 18, 2001, and the bad economic news for Europe just keeps coming. A new batch of trade fig

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With container volumes growing faster than terminal capacity in Los Angeles-Long Beach, the nation's

Sound as a dollar? Try sound as a euro.This weekend in Belgium, European officials will emba

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

SIEMENS-MOTOROLAPLANT OPENS IN VIRGINIAMUNICH - A $1.5 billion semiconductor plant built by

Asia-Pacific countries face a bill of up to $500 billion to rectify the Year 2000 computer problem,

The World Trade Organization's chief asked major economic powers to open their markets to exports fr

* Noon Thursday - The dollar was trading slightly lower, despite a sharp rally in the stock market o

The local arm of Singapore's maritime-based Keppel conglomerate is revamping itself in what it says

Daewoo Corp.'s chairman said Wednesday that General Motors Corp. planned to buy up to 50 percent of