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USDA OKS $1.4 BILLIONIN GUARANTEES FOR MEXICOCHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Agriculture sa

Week Ending 10-04-97 10-05-96 09-27-97General-FreightIndex 247.9 219.0 247.4

Oct. 3, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

OFFERS TO BUY* COPPER ROD. ASTM B49/78. For making electric wire. Cu: 99.95 percent min. Dim

In years past, logistics was done on a need-to-know basis. Today, it seems everyone needs to know.

WISCONSIN'S INSURANCEREGULATOR WILL RESIGNMADISON, Wis. - Josephine Musser, Wisconsin's insu

Insurance Services Office Inc. came a step closer to creating a long-dreamt-about insurance industry

Through the first nine months of 1997, there was not a single catastrophe that resulted in a billion

MARUBENI, ENRON TO BIDFOR INDIAN POWER PROJECTNEW DELHI - Enron Power Corp. of Houston and a

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The Supreme Court already has agreed to review several cases this term - ranging from antitrust law

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

With two of the three major rail concessions in Mexico awarded, there is increasing concern about th

A federal judge has dismissed all remaining claims against America West Airlines by the Teamsters ov

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BA HEAD RELYING ONTALKS TO SAVE ALLIANCEPARIS - The head of British Airways PLC said Friday

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When you walk into East Coast Warehouse and Distribution Corp.'s 1.25 million square foot waterfront

Major U.S. business groups are trying to save an Export-Import Bank bill from amendments they say co

Transportation industry payrolls weathered the impact of the United Parcel Service strike and were b

Traveling by sea is less dangerous than road transport but is more risky than going by plane and fur

Oct. 3, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlea

CLINTON URGED TO ACT ONRUSSIA MISSILE AID TO IRANWASHINGTON - Congress is stepping up pressu

Maybe it's culture, or prudence, or time zones. Whatever the reason, European companies take a lot m

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1286 (Oct. 3, 1997) Previous day - 1281The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

Lauritzen Reefers, a unit of Denmark's J. Lauritzen, said it signed a trans-Pacific connecting carri

Farrell Lines Inc. is launching weekly service between India and the U.S. East Coast.''We ha

HAPAG-LLOYD (AMERICA) INC.John Palmer was named manager of the Charleston, S.C., office that

Third-party logistics has become a comfortable niche for some trucking companies that once viewed su

Three Mile Island, the site of the worst commercial U.S. nuclear accident, could become the first nu

The battle lines have been drawn over one of the more onerous issues splitting ranks in the insuranc

The European Commission's transport directorate is poised to propose a raft of measures aimed at kic

A political power struggle inside Iran pushed moderate President Mohammed Khatami into approving a $

Russia is a marketer's paradox.On the one hand, Russian consumers have an insatiable appetit

It is no longer a matter of whether U.S. insurers will expand their markets around the world but how

BANK OF SPAIN CUTSINTERVENTION RATE TO 5 PERCENTMADRID - The Bank of Spain on Friday cut its

As a way to accommodate its growth, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport - one of Europe's busiest - won a r

SHIPSBAOSHAN IRON TO BUYSHIPS FROM HONG KONGSHANGHAI - Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. said

One group of shipping lines is threatening to impose congestion surcharges at the Port of Manila's S