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Still stinging from a refusal by Congress to expand its trade negotiating authority, the Clinton adm

'Shame on you for not proactively working together, and with the port authorities, in making master

Only the Teamsters could reduce trucking to a mere soap opera: Has Ron left for good? Will James bri

Nov. 26, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush is asking a San Francisco judge to reconsider hi

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Falling insurance rates for workers compensation spell good news for businesses, but how long will i

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.Gary G. Benanav joined the life insurer as executive vice preside

Mosey along almost anywhere in China within sniffing distance of the sea and you're likely to be smo

Negotiations are nearing their final stage for Hong Kong's next container terminal, intended to be i

OFFERS TO BUY* MICHELIN OR COMPATIBLE TIRES. Automobile tires, Ms260 Michelin or compatible,

Having won the right to take over and develop Malaysia's Port of Kuantan, a consortium says it aims

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In a brewing international scuffle, the United States' only scheduled freight airline to Amsterdam s

As of Nov. 26, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Dow Chemical Co. and grain processing giant Cargill have formed a joint venture to develop and marke

Nov. 26, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

CHINA TO CUT INDUSTRIALPRODUCT TARIFFS TO 10 PERCENTBEIJING - China will cut its average tar

Long before the recent meltdown in financial markets rocked Asia's tigers and threatened an already

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has given U.S. officials until October 1998 to come up wit

South Africa's three largest gold mining companies are changing the face of the gold industry throug

PLANESFAA ORDERS INSPECTIONFOR FUEL PUMP WIRINGWASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Adm

Port commissioners in Houston have extended bidding until Thursday for operation of a multipurpose t

Shipping lines in the trans-Pacific expect 1998 to be another year of strong growth in the trade fro

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. of Britain and China's Shougang Group agreed to merge t

The shipping lanes between the United States and Southern Europe are in transition.Three meg

West Coast dockworkers apparently plan no change in their approach to labor-management issues, but t

1168 (Nov. 26, 1997) Previous day - 1169The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The dollar rose to a five-year high against the Japanese yen last week and a four-week high against

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 235.69 off 2.14 w

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Two weeks ago it was Michael Jackson. Last week it was a team from the International Monetary Fund.<

Trade officials from the United States and European Union are struggling to avoid a trans-Atlantic s

The European Union, fearing that Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has fallen victim

It seems the world is not quite over the ''running dogs of imperialism'' sort of language of the old

Mexican commerce officials have rejected a request from business leaders in their northwesternmost s

MASSMUTUAL SAYS PAYOUTFOR DIVIDEND SET RECORDSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Massachusetts Mutual Life

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