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March 16, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum ExchangeMarch 13, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The Senate this week is expected to vote on a long-delayed overhaul of ocean shipping regulation, bu

Ferry operators and airports today will make an eleventh-hour bid to scrap plans to end duty-free sa

There was a character in Jimmy Breslin's first book by the name of Marvin the Torch.Marvin c

March 16, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Lo

MARCHNational Transportation Safety Board. March 18. Springfield, Va. Public hearing at 9 a.

Virgin Atlantic Airways threw a big party last Thursday to mark the opening of its new cargo facilit

INDONESIAN TRADE CHIEFDEFENDS MONOPOLIESJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's new trade and indus

Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utilization within four weeks from Ma

The Journal of Commerce Stock Index outperformed the Dow Jones Index, rising 1.6 percent last week t

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 225.98 off 0.15 wh

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IRAN URANIUM DEAL WON'TSTOP CLINTON CHINA VISITWASHINGTON - President Clinton will not alter

The bistate agency that runs the nation's third-largest marine port and three airports boosted its n

About 19.1 percent of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip live below the poverty line b

Asia's current economic turmoil is forcing changes that could be healthy for the freight industry ov

BRITISH AIRWAYS TO ENTERFINANCIAL SERVICESLONDON - British Airways is following other large

A group of 43 property/casualty reinsurers wrote $19.9 billion in premiums during 1997, an increase

In what may be the ultimate ''point-to-peak'' delivery, Emery Worldwide and its Swiss agent used a t

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Apr. 2, 1997 - March 16, 1998 (a graph)

As of March 16, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Karl-Heinz Sager, who founded Senator Lines 11 years ago and led the company through the many turbul

Former President Carter said last week that Indonesian President Suharto had broken commitments he m

An Australia-New Zealand Direct Line cargo ship supplied 12 megawatts of power to the central busine

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CANADA LIKELY TO BOW TOREQUEST FOR WTO PANELOTTAWA - Canada probably will accede to requests

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Russia said last week that Chechnya has reopened its pipelines to allow the flow of Caspian Sea oil,

The Pakistan government has raised the tariff on power supplied by state-owned utilities by 12 perce

International Petroleum ExchangeMarch 12, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Apr. 25, 1997 - March 13, 1998 (a graph)

MARCHInternational Trade Club of Southern California. March 17. San Pedro, Calif. ''Maritime

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New York Mercantile Exchange - March 12, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

Chatset Ltd., known for its critical appraisals of Lloyd's of London, last week released a surprisin

The Surface Transportation Board wants to hear from shippers, government agencies and railroads that

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

After 10 years of promoting itself as an agency that balances trade facilitation and enforcement, Cu

A story on Page 1A of Friday's Journal of Commerce misstated the definition of ''constructed value.'