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West Coast port management must quickly join forces with dockside labor to end its downward spiral i

U.S. and Japanese aviation negotiators wrapped up four days of talks in Tokyo Thursday with no agree

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

It's been nearly six months since Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp. exchanged vows and reached a

Sept. 25, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close Hig

987 (Sept. 25, 1997) Previous day - 991The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thursda

1277 (Sept. 25, 1997) Previous day - 1276The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

TEXAS RAIL COMMISSIONPLANS SAFETY HEARINGAUSTIN, Texas - The Railroad Commission of Texas pl

The first signs of recovery have surfaced in the Port of Boston following new efforts to sell shippe

INSURERS: ROAD BILL DELAYA 'TEMPORARY SETBACK'WASHINGTON - Property/casualty insurer

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

US: STOCKPILE SALESDON'T DISRUPT TIN MARKETWASHINGTON - The United States has not seen any e

Sept. 25, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

A San Francisco judge declined to rule Wednesday on the California Insurance Department's motion aga

This is not the ideal time for some of the nation's leading trucking companies to start negotiations

Property/casualty insurers in Massachusetts remain opposed to trading funding for an environmental p

Massachusetts state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, Senate chairwoman of the joint Insurance Committee, faces

The U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen Thursday but fell vs. the Deutsche mark on rumors that

Two leaders in the container-leasing business, Sea Containers Ltd. and GE Capital Services Co., are

HANJIN SHIPPING CO.H.T. Hwang, director of Hanjin Shipping Co. (USA), was promoted to execut

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

Even with Brazil's current account gap widening 30 percent a year, and the region's overall deficit

As of Sept. 25, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

FLIGHT 800 CRASH THEORYCENTERS ON WIRINGNEW YORK - Investigators trying to find the cause of

The computer industry has won a key vote in its campaign to end export curbs on encryption software,

TAIWAN URGES ACTIONON ANTI-DUMPING PROBETAIPEI - Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade expressed c

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will spend more than $500 million to acquire 409 locomo

Thursday, Sept. 25, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The European Union's executive commission said Thursday it was appealing a World Trade Organization

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 11, 1996 - Sep. 25, 1997 (a graph)*

As the AFL-CIO prepares to spend millions of dollars to fight free-trade agreements supported by bus

Labor unions representing Portugal's dockworkers have called off a series of stoppages penciled to r

President Clinton is honorary chairman, and Sen. Trent Lott is general chairman, for the 1997 United

Congress is calling the Clinton administration on the carpet to prove that it has not prejudged the

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ONGOINGCalifornia Maritime Academy. Oakland, Calif. September, November and January. Seminar

The Terminal de Containers at Brazil's main Port of Santos will see 20 percent to 25 percent annual

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US NAVAL INSTITUTEHOLDS ESSAY CONTESTANNAPOLIS, Md. - The U.S. Naval Institute is planning t

Brazil's Santos Port Authority officially laid off 2,290 dockworkers Wednesday as part of a pre-arra