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Hong Kong's insurance industry suffered a rare pause in expansion last year, chiefly on a sluggish g

March 27, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

IT, Kanban, MRO, MRP, Supply-Chain Management - the letters and words describing the processes desig

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. rushed an unstable fungicide to market, created reasons for rejecting

APL LTD.Continuing an extensive realignment of its executive ranks, the San Francisco-based

Small airlines are gearing up to make some big noise in Washington.These smaller airlines ar

Uncertainty about the dollar has brought renewed interest from exporters in foreign currency cover,

Poles enjoy saying they were the horse on which the communist saddle never quite fit.Now Pol

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The Russian State Statistics Committee Friday denied media reports that it had manipulated figures t

Pakistan's finance minister announced a new economic package Friday that will force more people to p

''Whereas sleepy babushkas used to be in charge of security . . . nowadays you see uniformed guards

A union official and a South Korean industry group on Friday played down charges that factory worker

Five years after a Yugoslav cargo ship dropped anchor in Baltimore Harbor, it's still there, with a

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While European shippers and forwarders appear to be making headway with their demands for more consi

Heiner Wilkens, president and chief executive of Cargolux Airlines International, not only is one of

After more than three decades in the shipping business, Flemming Jacobs has some learning to do.

A Pacific storm has uncovered the skeleton of the Sujameco, a steamer bound for Coos Bay when it ran

Caliber System Inc. is cutting loose a chunk of its money-losing Viking Freight subsidiary, slicing

Canadian barley growers voted by a 62.9 percent majority to reject open-market exporting and stick w

The powerhouse economies of the United States and Japan stand to gain the most from last week's glob

New York Mercantile Exchange - March 26, 1997Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

The theme of this month's AirCommerce is simple: What the future has in store for you depends largel

Consumer groups have called on California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush to put the brakes

Indonesia said it will withhold mining rights for a Canadian company whose highly publicized gold fi

The consultants call it disintermediation. A lot of other people might just spell it b-a-n-k-r-u-p-t

Panalpina, the integrated Swiss air forwarder, is the prime air transport group to operate at Huntsv

* Alabama's 26 major waterways provide more than 1,000 navigable miles for shipping.* Three

Cargo-Media is dead. Long live Cargo 2000.Cargo-Media was a working group of 18 Internationa

ARKANSAS HOUSE DELETES'ACTS OF GOD' FROM BILLLITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Bowing to the wishes of Gov

Russia's government leaders are still arguing with national union leaders over what was achieved by

In the 1970s and 1980s, Lynch Machinery didn't have a prayer.The small U.S. glass-pressing m

ARGENTINA SEEN ATTRACTINGS. AFRICAN MINING FIRMSBUENOS AIRES - South African mining companie