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SHIPSWALLENIUS LINES ADDSAUTO CARRIAGE CAPACITYSTOCKHOLM - Wallenius Lines o

American International Group Inc. said Wednesday it had formed a joint venture worth half a billion

ING GROUP SAYS PROFITUP IN FIRST SIX MONTHSAMSTERDAM - ING Group reported growth in net prof

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 239.31 which co

'It's been a disaster. The long-haul trades have collapsed.'

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Tranz Rail Holdings Ltd., the owner of New Zealand's rail network, and Wisconsin Central Transportat

BNSF EXPANDINGCALIFORNIA FACILITYBARSTOW, Calif. - Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

MARITIME COLLEGE DESIGNATEDAS REGIONAL ACADEMYNEW YORK - State University of New York's Mari

Nuclear-generated electricity was in its infancy 35 years ago when the Big Rock Point station produc

Germany's exports to the countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1997 are likely to

A senior U.S. trade official put a happy face on her visit to Tokyo this week, but even as she left,

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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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

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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