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A CSX Transportation Inc. train derailed early Thursday approximately 100 miles from Atlanta and blo

The proposed revival of a long-dormant rail line across Missouri could move forward as early as Marc

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

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FEBRUARYSouthwest Association of Rail Shippers. Feb. 1-2. Galveston, Texas. Annual meeting.

As the Asia crisis slows trade throughout the region, a price war flaring between shipping lines has

Most of East Asia's crisis-stricken countries will manage an economic rebound this year or next, a l

Like the Vikings of old, aggressive Scandinavians are now raiding the shipyards of Germany's Baltic

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates Princess Cruises, ordered two more 109,

Despite the best efforts of environmental groups and anti-nuclear activists, the global demand for n

Jan. 29, 1998Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

FIRST CHICAGO EXPANDINGINTO MIDWESTERN SECTORCHICAGO - First Chicago NBD will offer property

International Petroleum ExchangeJan. 28, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 233.85 up 0.65

New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 28, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp. will pour nearly $2 billion this year into capital improvements

The Russian government came under intense pressure from foreign money markets and foreign investors

ECONOMISTS SEE TRADEFRICTION WITH JAPANESEDAVOS, Switzerland - The Asian financial crisis wi

A deal struck in New York to extend South Korea's troublesome short-term debt on reasonably good ter

Container shipping is due for major restructuring because some lines - behaving like ''loose cannons

1054 (Jan. 29, 1998) Previous day - 1070The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The head of a stevedoring company that has triggered a major industrial dispute by leasing facilitie

Amoco Trinidad Oil Co. has made its largest crude oil discovery in 25 years, according to a company

Jan. 29, 1998U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

PLANESMCCAIN WARNS AGAINSTINDUSTRY CONSOLIDATIONWASHINGTON - Senate Commerce

Senior U.S. officials will confront European regulators in Brussels next week over their proposals f

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 7, 1997 - Jan. 29, 1998 (a graph)<

A bill allowing policyholder-owned mutual insurers to form stock-issuing holding companies was appro

IRAN EASES REGULATIONSTO RESCUE NON-OIL EXPORTSTEHRAN - The Iranian government has taken new

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

Thursday Jan. 29, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

Knud Erik Moeller Nielsen, a rising star at A.P. Moller-Maersk who was slated to become chief execut

FOURTH-QUARTER NETUP AT WISCONSIN CENTRALROSEMONT, Ill. - Wisconsin Central Transportation C

South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co. is selling a portion of its container fleet to Interpool Ltd., the

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Fellow plodders through the mud of cyberspace, there may be hope of relief! Some of the biggest play

834 (Jan. 29, 1998) Previous day - 852The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursday

South Africa's first black-controlled mining conglomerate likely will be broken up and sold in piece

The wave of consolidation is continuing in the container-leasing business, with Interpool Ltd. on th

The Export-Import Bank deferred action at least until July on a proposal to increase its fees to exp