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Note to shippers who thought the undercharge crisis was over: think again.The attorney for d

Thursday, Aug. 28, 1997Percentages Per Year INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The stakes in the race for control over Caspian oil are high, but the rules shaping the contest are

On Monday, when Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon gives his third state of the nation

Union Pacific Railroad will mark the first anniversary of its acquisition of Southern Pacific Transp

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GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Bigger export and inventory figures have forced the Commerce Department to scrap its initial assessm

The Hong Kong money market experienced frenzied, volatile trade Thursday as interbank interest rates

A U.S. company that plans to launch rockets with commercial satellites is negotiating with two Carib

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Aug. 28, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 13, 1996 - Aug. 28, 1997 (a graph)

A 1995 business trip to Cuba has cost the Jacksonville Port Authority a $20,000 federal fine.

A region that has largely defied Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms has produced the highest living st

Myanmar's military government has warned that a Massachusetts law restricting the state from doing b

About 300 shippers, fed up with poor service, will face off with Union Pacific Railroad executives i

Delta Air Lines' pilots say they helped the nation's third-largest carrier bounce back from a financ

Twenty-five foreign-flagged ships were detained in British ports during July after failing port stat

Twelve years after it was placed in liquidation, creditors of Delta Re Insurance Co. are getting som

The Quincy shipyard project is stalled and acting Gov. Paul Cellucci is calling on the president to

Thursday Aug. 28, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

OFFERS TO BUY* POTASSIUM CHLORIDES (KCL). Purity: 96 percent. H2O: 2 percent. Water insolubl

Hong Kong, already the main conduit for Chinese firms to seek stock market listings, is going after

Stena, the Swedish ferry operator, claimed the failure of the British government to rule on the plan

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

The European airport war intensified after Amsterdam Airport Schiphol announced a ban on night fligh

The tiny, cramped port in Portland, Maine, gets a major boost in its vessel-handling capacity this L

A.P. Moller, the Danish shipowner, said Thursday it expects net profits this year to be ''somewhat a

The House and Senate should be ready to vote by early to mid-October on whether to give President Bi

International oil groups which operate offshore oil and gas fields near Russia's Far Eastern Sakhali

INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXCHANGEAug. 27, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

AZERBAIJAN WANTSCLARIFICATION ON CASPIANBAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan has asked Turkmenistan

OFFERS TO BUY* JAPANESE USED CAR BODY PARTS/ENGINES. Japanese used car body parts/engines fo

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COLOMBIAN FIRM AWARDSCOAL EXPLORATION PACTSBOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's state-owned coal co

Container and cruise ship traffic reached record midyear levels at the Port of Vancouver, according

Sea-Land Service Inc. will drop its direct, weekly calls at New Orleans next month and replace them

HALTER MARINE GROUP INC.Harvey B. Walpert, senior vice president of corporate affairs, was e

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 237.54 off 1.10