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Dec. 29, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

One year closes and another opens, but some things, it seems, will always be with us. The U.S.-Japan

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Insurance webmasters, give yourselves a break. You deserve it. Not just because it's the holiday sea

A broad trade poli cy agenda, extending well beyond the debate over presidential fast- track negot

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REGULATORS FINEOXFORD $3 MILLIONALBANY, N.Y. - New York insurance regulators fined Oxford He

ELLER & CO.Norman C. Spencer, a 23-year veteran of this Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stevedore and

Indian express companies hope to resume expansion of dedicated overnight freighter capacity in 1998

In China, they make jetliners the old-fashioned way - by hand.Inside a cavernous hangar here

FORTIS BENEFITS INSURANCECO.Scott Dillon joined the Kansas City company as regional sales di

Wednesday Dec. 24, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Linda Ruthardt put coal in the stocking of Allmerica Financial

Dec. 23, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

The Indian government has invited proposals from three international operators to develop and manage

Strong economic growth brought good times to major West Coast airports this year, and a casual obser

The only cloud on this port's Alaskan cruise business horizon, a grey speck in the distance, is the

Railroads should not bear all of the blame for mountains of grain outside elevators throughout the M

Time and again, I would slew when I should have luffed. And the mandarin oranges would take another

BRAZIL WILL RECONSIDERTRADE TIES TO CANADASAO PAULO - Stunned by the loss of a multimillion

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 231.78 up 0.20 wh

For an airline whose obituary notices were posted earlier this summer, Fine Air Services Inc. is cel

Not to be overlooked in the competition for Caspian Sea oil, Romania is making a bold bid to capture

Beginning in the new year, airlines will step up their scrutiny of passenger bags for bombs and expl

Three international marine construction companies, including one based in Houston, have pleaded guil

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Chinese air cargo will grow at least 14 percent a year during each of the next three years as the co

A British captain, ordered to take over a Panamanian-registered cargo vessel in a dispute over its o

The past year has been a turbulent one for the air express, or time-definite delivery business. Labo

Indian carpet makers are trying to head off a proposed U.S. child labor initiative they fear could w

A study by the Insurance Research Council confirms what most drivers already know - cell phone owner

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The growth prospects for the Czech republic and Slovakia could be impaired by the serious growth in

Union Pacific Railroad will abandon a 122-mile stretch of track in Kansas and Colorado that was used

GRAPHS:1. Fastest growing regional air trade markets, 1990-1996 and 1996-20022. Regional mar

JANUARYCalifornia State University. January and thereafter. Transportation, logistics and re

AMOCO CHEMICAL PLANSALABAMA PLANT EXPANSIONDECATUR, Ala. - Amoco Chemical Co. will spend $40

Lloyd's of London has suspended the former chief of an insurance brokerage that siphoned off ''secre

California plans to revoke the logging license of Pacific Lumber, a company that enraged environment