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The airport in neighboring Shenzhen has been approved for expansion to increase capacity to 12 milli

The peace that has reigned over U.S.-Japan auto trade since 1995 is being strained by a sharp revers

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 242.83 up 0.02 w

The crane lifts 1,800-pound bags of ground-up ore containing nickel sulfides from what the dockworke

1280 (Aug. 8, 1997) Previous day - 1284The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

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Aug. 8, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent p

Cargo exports through the port here are running 40 percent higher this year than last, and imports a

Norfolk Southern Railroad may build a maintenance shop in the Pittsburgh area, surprising officials

TRAINSFLORIDA HOLDING COMPANYBUYS M&B RAILROADMERIDIAN, Miss. - Meridian & B

United Parcel Service may be the world's ninth-largest airline, but grounding most of its planes has

Aug. 8, 1997Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

Transportacion Maritima Mexicana, Mexico's largest shipping and transportation company, reported a n

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Standing in a near-empty parking lot in New Jersey late Sunday night, it was tough to tell a pitched

United Parcel Service said the strike by Teamsters had minimum impact on its European operations.

INSTITUTEOF INTERNATIONALCONTAINER LESSORSJohn A. Maccarone was elected president of

Timing is everything.When Federal Express Corp. opens its Asian regional transshipment compl

The crash of a Fine Air DC-8 cargo plane in Miami has again put the spotlight on aging aircraft, six

Officials from United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union finished up last week talking with one

As car manufacturers flock to emerging markets, their transportation providers are enjoying a surge

Maersk Line celebrated in mid-June the one-millionth container loaded or discharged at the company's

ONGOINGExport Documentation, Procedures and Letters of Credit. Seminars in August sponsored

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

TRAINSCANADIAN PACIFIC REPORTSRISE IN GRAIN SHIPMENTSCALGARY - Canadian Paci

A ''People on the Move'' item that appeared on Aug. 4 on Page 1B should have said that Niels H. Axel

Officials said an offshore communications network has been installed to aid ships in distress. It e

Radar is acting up, really going bananas, and the fog is getting thick.Sit wherever you can.

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PORT OF QINGDAO SAYSHARBOR TRAFFIC UP . . .QINGDAO, China - Harbors in the Port of Qingdao i

Charting a new course for Thailand's proposed national shipping fleet, the Thai Cabinet announced re

CNA FINANCIAL'S PROFITRISES ON INVESTMENT GAINSCHICAGO - CNA Financial Corp. said its net in

Six years ago, this shipyard on the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal was empty, vastly overstaff

Ask your neighborhood manufacturer or distributor about the economy, and they'll tell you it's doing

IMF: VIETNAM NEEDSNEW KINDS OF REFORMSHANOI - The International Monetary Fund's chief repres

The teensy, tiny centimeter is threatening to create trans-Atlantic trade havoc in everything from c

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 9, 1996 - Aug. 7, 1997 (a graph)* A

While United Parcel Service is the immediate victim of the current Teamsters strike, other unionized

The British pound fell to a 10-month low of $1.5783 Thursday, extending Wednesday's crash, despite n