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Japanese shipping analysts said Tuesday's agreement by domestic maritime groups to improve Japan's p

Coast Guard officials in New Orleans are hoping that the mighty Mississippi River will be open for b

SEA-LAND UPGRADES ITSUKRAINIAN CARGO SERVICELONDON - Sea-Land Service Inc. is increasing the

SHIPSAILORS FACE PROSECUTIONIN STOWAWAY DEATHSHALIFAX - Six Taiwanese sailor

If you believe all the gloomy headlines, you'd think Asia was falling apart. Daily reports detail ho

''When you're doing business overseas, you're a barbarian. Whether you're male or female makes littl

Grain traffic on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway was disappointing in 1996, but there are so

The Port of Seattle's oldest, largest and most diversified international cargo terminal is wearing o

The polite term is ''residual ballast.''But a better description is the ''unpumpable slop an

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Last summer, ocean carriers could have earned $1,100 for shipping a 20-foot container from Italy to

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There aren't just two sides in the watershed debate over ocean shipping deregulation, which resumes

The Journal of Commerce has made three editorial appointments to reflect the newspaper's expansion o

Caribbean banana exporters fear extensive damage to their market following a ruling this week by the

Nearly half the Russian economy is controlled by organized crime, and billions of dollars are hemorr

OFFERS TO BUY* KINDER SURPRISE EGGS. One 40-ft. container or truck per month. Send full deta

CONSORTIUM WINSSECOND GAS CONCESSIONMEXICO CITY - A U.S.-Mexican consortium has racked up it

Rules being drafted here will determine how ''trillions of dollars'' worth of minerals are recovered

The president of the Teamsters union is massing an army of 11,000 organizers to march on the nation'

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U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky is turning to a mutual fund executive to serve as her

As China's home market for motorcycles sputters, its army of manufacturers is looking abroad under p

Ports in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway range, which battled back from a slow and icy start in

SHELL AND TEXACO SIGNJOINT MARKETING PACTWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Shell Oil Co. and Texaco Inc.

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The Indian government this week unveiled a new petroleum exploration policy aimed at boosting produc

Rhode Island business regulators may make changes to the state's 7-month-old banking law that curren

Zurich Insurance Co. has taken a 25 percent holding in struggling Thai Metropole Insurance Co., refl

Intermodal truckers are pressing the federal government to make equipment owners legally responsible

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

The United States is expected to make another request Thursday for a World Trade Organization panel

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1493 (March 19, 1997) Previous day - 1490The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Vietnam and China both laid claim to a potentially gas-rich area off the central coast of Vietnam wh