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Taiwan's Kien Hung Shipping Co. - a major local carrier - has become the first local shipping operat

With the once-dominant Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG shipbuilder in bankruptcy and broken into pieces, th

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Directors of the Britannia Protection and Indemnity Club are warning that shipowners' costs could ri

Privatization is the key to Bremerhaven's recovery program.After losing market share last ye

PLANESAMR NET INCREASEDIN SECOND QUARTERFORT WORTH - AMR Corp., parent of Am

U.S. Customs officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Hong Kong July 23 and 24 to disc

The European Union's historic embrace of its former communist neighbors will undergo a mood change v

CZECH FIRMS TOLD TORETOOL BEFORE EU ENTRYPRAGUE - Czech Republic companies must restructure

Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Japan's new vice trade minister for international affairs, said Wednesday he is

SHELL OIL SETS MARK FORDEEP-WATER GAS OUTPUTHOUSTON - Shell Oil Co. said a well producing ga

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

'We argued for safeguards in Nafta. What we warned of has happened, and the tariff and quota provisi

Developing countries sharply criticized moves by Norway and the United States Wednesday to relaunch

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 235.15 up 0.64 wh

MEETING SEEKS SOLUTIONTO CAMBODIAN TURMOILJAKARTA, Indonesia - Three Association of Southeas

President Eduard Shevardnadze flew to the United States on Wednesday in preparation for a meeting wi

As of July 16, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

Despite one of the strongest economic growth figures in South America and the fast pace of its priva

A new safety rule forcing cargo carriers to halve the loads they carry in Boeing 727s will cost the

July 16, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

An effort to help the world's least developed countries expand their access to global markets is bei

Russia's unemployment at the end of June, calculated according to World Trade Organization methodolo

As Russian government and banking officials contradicted one another in Moscow Wednesday, the contes

LOUISIANA LAW COULD CUTAUTO INSURANCE RATESBATON ROUGE, La. - Car insurance rates could drop

Generali, Europe's fourth-largest insurance group, and Grupo Financiero Banorte, one of Mexico's mos

The U.S. Interior Department does not have the expertise to assess whether a site in the Mojave dese

Canadian National Railway will continue to press for new U.S. rail access and connections as it take

The crash of an Airborne Express DC-8 cargo jet during a test flight in December was likely caused b

CANADIAN NATIONALCanada's largest freight railroad hired Gary L. Gibson to run its new risk

When Congress scrapped many Depression-era crop subsidies in last year's farm bill, programs for sug

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a Republican, had to swallow a double-dose of b

A bid by the United Transportation Union to seek sanctions against the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng

The Port of Los Angeles was working at a frantic pace Wednesday as terminal operators hustled to mov

North America's price advantage over South America in ocean shipping of grains to Southeast Asia wil

An agribusinessman has a radical suggestion for dealing with the many obsolete grain facilities in I

WALLENIUS ADDSVESSEL TO FLEETLONDON - Wallenius Lines, the Swedish vehicle carrier specialis

TRUCKSARKANSAS BEST COMPLETESSALE OF ITS CARDINAL UNITFORT SMITH, Ark. - Ark

President Clinton has once again declined to apply the full force of U.S. law against foreign citize

An effort to extend free-trade benefits to Central America and the Caribbean was in jeopardy Wednesd