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OPEN CHINA MARKETURGED FOR US FARM GOODSHONG KONG - U.S. Ambassador to China James Sasser ca

Being the only internationally known brand in town might have been lonely, but it was also very prof

A recent advertising campaign by telecommunications giant British Telecom urged people to make more

Mired in an industrywide multibillion-dollar slide, Delta Air Lines had not hired a pilot for four y

Friday April 25, 1997Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

State regulators say they've reached tentative agreement on the proposed $3.2 million merger between

Long in the planning, a fully integrated international air transport, manufacturing and distribution

Ford Motor Co. will install less forceful air bags in all of its 1998 model year vehicles, saying th

Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines is enlarging its U.S. offices, and a top executive says the container li

Tanker owners are welcoming the intervention of the U.S. attorney general in their legal fight with

MARK VII REPORTSRECORD QUARTERLY RESULTSMEMPHIS - Mark VII Inc., a non-asset-based transport

For the week ended April 19, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

International Petroleum ExchangeApril 25, 1997 *Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)<

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has chosen Consolidated Freightways Inc. as its primary inbound trucke

A semi-nomadic tribe of 5,000 indigenous Colombians has threatened to commit mass suicide by jumping

BLUE STAR LINEDennis Garan was promoted to account executive for Blue Star Line in New York.

High-tech exporters are waging a classic battle with rights groups this week over a popular measure

Standing in the cabin of the Rose Melie, Mack Bruno shakes his head and worries what is to becom

The risks of a further tightening of Federal Reserve monetary policy could rise this week with the r

France has signed a trade deal with Cuba and has warned the United States not to interfere with Fren

The European Union, Norway and Switzerland complained to a global trade forum Friday that Mexico's c

An international conference on intellectual property rights opens today amid continuing disputes abo

TRANSATLANTIC HOLDINGSSEES INCOME INCREASENEW YORK - Transatlantic Holdings Inc. reported th

Scotland's burgeoning electronic manufacturing sector, while fueling the region's air cargo activity

Armed with its Emery Worldwide Airlines partnership, the U.S. Postal Service is aiming to get more b

As of April 25, 1997Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

In a notoriously gossip-ridden industry, Tim Harris is a master at keeping his thoughts to himself.<

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

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

1274 (April 25, 1997) Previous day - 1281The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

One hundred years after German prospectors found large, rich deposits, Guyana is rapidly exploiting

New York Mercantile Exchange - April 24, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

April 25, 1997RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unl

MINERS IN GERMANYSTAGE DEMONSTRATIONBONN - Thousands of miners from eastern Germany proteste

FREEPORT MAY QUITINDONESIA GOLD PROJECTJAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian newspaper said on

The European Union's executive commission has cast serious doubt on British proposals to relax a dam

Mexican trade investigators have slapped compensatory duties of 99.75 percent on imports of the Chin

''We'd like to be buyers right now, but that would take more nerve than we have available.''

NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE PLANFrank Carrigan was appointed manager of the plan, the stat

Training express cargo personnel is getting faster and easier, no matter how far-flung an internatio