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You're an American businesswoman. You've faxed a carefully worded proposal for a multimillion-dollar

Sports equipment giant Nike Inc. has decided to go globe-trotting with its logistics partner, Menlo

When Gary Palmer and four colleagues at Web Press Corp. in Kent, Wash., bought the company a year ag

As the Port of New York and New Jersey labors to persuade Sea-Land Service Inc. not to take its busi

U.S. manufacturers of X-ray machines, CAT scan equipment and other medical products have been hit wi

'The end of a railroad is not a port. It is shareholder value.'

Japan will release a new economic stimulus package this week, and once again it will disappoint the

Getting cargo into and out of China by air is much simpler than it was a few years ago, the indu

Air cargo executives around the world are preparing for the International Air Transport Association'

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

Central government leaders may trumpet efforts to increase Beijing Capital Airport's capacity, but a

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February 13: 936

936 (Feb. 13, 1998) Previous day - 933The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lon

1)ASIA'S AIRBORNE EXPORTSAverage growth, world: 6.6 percent. Average growth, Asia: 7.7 perce

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

Executives at cargo airlines who once had little choice but to throw up their hands when they saw a

Containership executives worried Thursday that a government investigation of a container-repair comp

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Royal Dutch/Shell said Thursday it is still negotiating with Iran over two giant gas export projects

New York Mercantile Exchange - Feb. 11, 1998PREV.LIFE OF CONTR. OPENOPEN HIGH L

Feb. 12, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

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Thursday Feb. 12, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Federal regulators said this week they had obtained an internal company document from Northeast Util

Containerports have to accept the fact that railroads consider intermodal business less important th

The controversial departure this week of the North American Free Trade Agreement's environment czar

The U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule may be getting a face lift for the new millennium.It won

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

The U.S. dollar was mixed Thursday, falling against the Deutsche mark and rising against the Japanes

Thousands of riot police fanned out over Seoul Thursday in a show of force against possible violent

A veteran shipping industry official spoke out Thursday against a previously undisclosed effort here

Once again carving out a maverick position among foreign container shipping lines, ''K'' Line Americ

FEBRUARYInternational Trade Club of Southern California. Feb. 17. San Pedro, Calif. Federal

International Petroleum ExchangeFeb. 11, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 231.63 off1.63

The marching orders on the West Coast are simple: Be prepared. Have enough rail equipment and dockwo

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

'The fruit that can't go to Asia has to go somewhere else. So it depresses the entire market.'