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'We did what we felt was the right thing to do. We just want it to be over so we can go on with our

NAMENIC STARTINGNICARAGUA SERVICEMIAMI - Start-up Namenic Line of Miami will launch a weekly

The carrot and stick will be waved in front of wary European governments Thursday in a bid to win su

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U.S. Customs scored a significant victory when it achieved a consensus from West Coast freight forwa

Legislation reauthorizing the Defense Department is becoming the vehicle of choice for maritime indu

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OFFERS TO BUY* PLASTIC BAGS. All types of polyethylene plastic bags - HDPE, LDPE, LDPE of di

Encouraged by the landslide presidential election victory of moderate Mohammad Khatami, Iran's merch

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Escalating a bitter public dispute, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday sued Microsoft Corp. over its use

Coal producers are developing vast new mining operations in Wyoming, Colorado and other Western stat

Brazilian pulp manufacturers are in the midst of a massive capacity and technology upgrade campaign

Caliber System Inc., which announced a deal Monday to be purchased by Federal Express Corp., posted

Governments in Europe, Asia and North America are under increasing pressure to require more competit

The information technologies sector is the Czech Republic's most rapidly growing market. The market

STUDY: BANKS' INSURANCESALES NOT UP TO POTENTIALNEW YORK - Four in 10 consumers are likely t

S. AFRICA'S SOEKOR SIGNSPACT WITH US COMPANYJOHANNESBURG - South Africa's state oil explorat

St. Petersburg, Russia's window to the west on the Baltic going back to the days of the czars, is be

Fire services continued to douse a burning cruise liner in the Cyprus port of Limassol Monday as an

COPPER ORE PRODUCTIONTO FALL SHORT IN CHINAHONG KONG - China's production of copper ore is e

Officials in Jiangsu province said Sunday the Port of Lianyun has drawn up a plan for further expans

World steel consumption this year will reach a record 695 million metric tons, up 4.5 percent from l

Oct. 6, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

Shopping-mad Israelis will soon have an alternative to the local mall - one-day sprees to London.

SHIPSFLORIDA COMPANY STARTSDRY-DOCK IMPROVEMENTSJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Atlantic Dry Do

Buoyed by increases in five of its seven categories, The Journal of Commerce Transportation Stock In

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

The sale of Bethlehem Steel's BethShip Sparrows Point Yard to the Veritas Capital Fund has been comp

'It has not yet disrupted production, because our clients have large inventories. But we have increa

Sales of imported vehicles in Japan dropped 15.8 percent in September from a year earlier to 32,026

ONGOINGCalifornia Maritime Academy. Oakland, Calif. November and January. Seminars on situat

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Saying the ''industrial world alone'' cannot assume global responsibility for reducing greenhouse ga

Europe's coal industry faces a major shake-up, with the future of Britain's mines hanging in the bal

A new survey has found that midlife baby boomers are in widespread denial about the financial implic

The price gap between Tokyo and major Western cities narrowed in 1996, but the Japanese capital rema

Barely two weeks before a possible strike against Amtrak that would halt rail service on the Northea

United Parcel Service driver Lisa Simms of Delhi says she and 19 others who worked during the Teamst

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