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Booming cross-border trade has led U.S.-based logistics firm AEI to establish its first warehousing

Mexican congressmen put their political differences aside and called for an end to the U.S. blockade

OFFERS TO BUY* SPANDEX FABRICS FOR SWIMMING PANTS. Seeking spandex fabrics to make swimming

The mayor of Hartford is thinking of taking to court the very business community for which the city

From the west coast of North America, where the Asian gloom is thickest, comes an indication that fo

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European Commission officials are finally becoming much more flexible on what the currency stability

The current slump in crude oil prices is hurting producers worldwide, but perhaps the hardest hit ar

March 6, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

The corporate restructuring of Transamerica Leasing Inc. announced last week is a response to fallin

MARUBA ADDS 2 SHIPSTO WEST AMERICAS TRADEMaruba SCA has upgraded its West Americas Container

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North Korea accused the United States Friday of not honoring terms of a landmark 1994 nuclear agreem

Freight rates for cotton exports to Asia could sink even further this week as the rate-setting confe

Grupo Libra has been awarded operating rights for areas encompassing warehouses 34 and 35 at the Por

TRAINSCONRAIL ACQUISITIONGAINS MORE BACKERSNORFOLK, Va. - Two government age

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A group of major insurance companies has sued Caremark International, accusing the home health-care

INDEPENDENT INSURANCEAGENTS OF AMERICAMaria L. Berthoud and David C. Turner were promoted to

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

The strong February employment report released Friday swept away any chance of an easing of Federal

A multimillion-dollar investment in Mexican rail operations pushed Transportacion Maritima Mexicana,

1102 (March 6, 1998) Previous day - 1104The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

US BUSINESSMEN MEETTOP CUBAN OFFICIALSCANCUN, Mexico - Despite a ban on almost all trade wit

Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. But the nation's officials hope that its new status

March 5, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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U.S. commodity exports in 1998 will be hurt by the economic crisis that grips Asia.Even thou

COLUMBUS LINE SERVICESHIFTS TERMINALS IN LALOS ANGELES - Columbus Line's West Coast Americas

The out-of-court settlement of a rate-setting case will delay a final court ruling on whether ocean

Developing nations fear that unless rich countries redouble their efforts to narrow the technology g

Breaking sharply from the era when communist bureaucrats ruled supreme, China's legislature began de

Hoping to persuade a reluctant Congress, President Clinton is using his bully pulpit in an effort to

METLIFE HAD RECORDEARNINGS IN 1997NEW YORK - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had 1997 consol

Friday March 6, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Under cover of the deep darkness before dawn, Greenpeace activists in a speedboat with no lights pul

Recent rail industry events have set the stage for some potentially ugly collisions of competing int

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On the wall in Gus Owen's office at the Surface Transportation Board are photographs of him shaking