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As the weekend's high winds and rain continued to slam into mainland Britain Monday, the cost to the

China's rail network is steaming into the brave new world of market forces, and leaving a lot of hum

WILLIS CORROON GROUPTO FORM VENTURE IN INDIALONDOON - Willis Corroon Group PLC has agreed to

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International investors Monday gave President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon mixed reaction on a Cabi

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

International Petroleum ExchangeJan. 5, 1998 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

OFFERS TO BUY* REFRIGERATED TRUCKS. 100 units of refrigerated trucks. Rated loading capacity

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Boston - Massachusetts does not recognize Bermuda as a ''state,'' therefore state Insurance Commissi

So far, not so bad. That about sums up the ocean carrier view of China's shipping exchange, denounce

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 228.91 off 0.23 wh

As of Jan. 5, 1998Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from sup

JAPAN'S ECONOMIC AGENCYCHIEF TO MEET GREENSPANTOKYO - Koji Omi, chief of Japan's Economic Pl

Canada's on-again, off-again selection of military helicopters has settled on a European model that

The Teamsters union and some of the nation's largest trucking companies return to the bargaining tab

Schneider Logistics Inc. has officially invaded Europe.The Green Bay, Wis.-based third-party

Bad news took a holiday last week as The Journal of Commerce/Bridge Transportation index of stocks i

Millon Air, the all-cargo carrier grounded in 1996, is back on the block after a proposed sale colla

An improved weekly stock index today starts tracking freight transportation stocks both here and abr

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker Rate Schedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Sched

The Bangladesh government will cut duties and taxes on computer software and hardware in an effort t

Afghanistan's Taliban militia has started sounding surprisingly moderate tones, hoping to land a dea

Current textile quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

Countries in the European Union will have trouble keeping their promises to cut subsidies on farm ex

Jan. 5, 1998This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the es

One of the problems with writing about developments in marine environmental law is that all the rece

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 17, 1997 - Jan. 5, 1998 (a graph)<

A salvage tug has arrived in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to help free a ship that ran aground in heavy sea

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The economic slump in Thailand, which triggered a regional chain reaction, has claimed its first vic

The United States and other major trading nations have postponed enactment of last year's worldwide

New York Mercantile Exchange - Jan. 2, 1998Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High

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

The new year has brought no new trends to the foreign exchange markets, with the U.S. dollar remaini

The European Union began the final preparations Monday for the launch of its single currency, the eu

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

Cubans living near the Port of Havana woke up Friday to the unusual sight of a large oceangoing ship

U.S. chemical exports, for decades one of the brightest points in the balance of trade picture, did

The railroad industry, the long-suffering weak stepsister in the British transport system, is kickin