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Talks to bring down national barriers on banking, insurance and other financial services need to suc

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 6, 1996 - Nov. 14, 1997 (a graph)*

Alaskan state officials said they will not launch an antitrust investigation into whether the compan

The Port of Seattle's proposed 1998 budget is $243 million, up 9.5 percent from the current year, pr

U.S. manufacturers have hundreds of millions of dollars to gain if the harbor maintenance tax they p

The Clinton administration is disappointed with the turnout at this week's Middle East/North Africa

Don't mess with no-fault. That's what officials representing property/casualty underwriters in New J

With hundreds of new dockworkers on the job in Los Angeles-Long Beach, and rail equipment becoming m

Life is about to become easier for air shippers.For more than a year now, shippers have bee

The Mexican government begins the auction today for radio frequency concessions for wireless communi

INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXCHANGE*Nov. 14, 1997 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

FERC APPROVES PLANTO MERGE 3 UTILITIESMADISON, Wis. - Merger plans by Iowa and Wisconsin pub

Immediately after passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, dire predictions were made about shipown

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Halter Marine Group Inc., said its subsidiary, TDI-Halter Inc., of Orange, Texas, won a contract fro

Pakistan's main Port of Karachi will be modernized at a cost of $350 million under a five-year proje

Adecade ago, partnership was just a word.But at many companies today, it means a close relat

Four years ago, Cattiva Inc. was just another small New York City apparel company that sold only dom

Amtrak received a reprieve from its short-term budget woes when Congress last week approved a multib

Canals have played a central role in Amsterdam's 700-year history, so it was not surprising that eve

If it's near the end of the year, ''it must be rate-rise time,'' sighs a veteran shipper in Singa

FOREIGN INVESTMENTCLIMBS IN MEXICOMEXICO CITY - Direct foreign investment in Mexico is expec

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

American International Group has bought out its Polish joint venture partner to increase its holding

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

The Union Pacific Railroad's ongoing service problems continue to trouble the National Industrial Tr

India managed to split the ranks of its major trading partners last week by reaching separate import

Steven S. Weiser, one of about 150 people schmoozing during a kickoff reception for GloBus '98, had

Office furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. has put a new logistics plan on the table and dramatically

A man's world? Don't tell that to a trio of women who have worked their way into the male-dominated

Ed Emmett is now a traveling man.While past presidents of the National Industrial Transporta

Shippers in Canada want to see new cargo carriers in the air and break up the monopolies of liner co

Nov. 14, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead

OPEC probably will bow to pressure from Persian Gulf oil heavyweights and raise its production ceili

Nov. 14, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

While U.S. producer prices generally changed little in October, there were sharp shifts in transport

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

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