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Oct. 11, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

SHIPPING INDUSTRY HELDIN VERY LOW ESTEEMROTTERDAM - Shipping has one of the worst reputation

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

Weeks after new life emerged at the Howland Hook container terminal on Staten Island, a barge compan

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

Tim Harris, chairman of P&O Containers and chief executive of the new P&O Nedlloyd, Friday unveiled

CHINA GRANTS SWISS GROUP1ST EUROPEAN LICENSEBEIJING - Swiss insurance giant Winterthur Insur

Rates for most transportation services rebounded in September after widespread August declines.<

Political bickering and insufficient carrier participation could delay the start-up of the Californi

AGIP HITS CRUDEIN SOUTH CHINA SEAMILAN - Agip made a discovery of crude oil in the South Chi

Sir Bryan Nicholson, Michael Deeny, Richard Spooner and Stephen Catlin have all been appointed non-e

A controversial proposal by a prominent tanker operator for insurers as well as shipowners to pay sh

In what could be a major battle next year, life insurers urged the New York Assembly Insurance Commi

As of Oct. 11, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

International Petroleum ExchangeOct. 11, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

What the Barrymores were to the theater, the Ballogs are to insurance fraud.Three generation

Hotels, restaurants, landlords and other property owners are facing an explosion in personal injury

What is the question to which the Internet is the answer?In other words, after all the hype,

The Port of Everett, Wash., after a five-year process, has received final approval on a key dredging

Name an important issue facing this nation, and I will point to a state that already is doing someth

SHIPSNO EXTENSION GRANTEDTO SAFETY CODE LAGGARDSROTTERDAM - Shipowners who fail to m

A federal official has put Los Angeles on notice: The Department of Transportation's inspector gener

BANKS WARNED OF NEEDFOR 'STAYING POWER'ROTTERDAM - The many banks building up their shipping

A top barge line official is knocking on the oil industry's door in a campaign to spread the cost of

Three weeks ended Oct. 5, 1996, vs. similar 1995 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

Canadian Pacific Railway Co. said Friday that its takeover bid to acquire all the capital stock of Q

Shipping lines in the beleaguered eastbound trans-Pacific trades are preparing to reinstate a capaci

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In the words of Yogi Berra, ''It's deja vu all over again,'' for trucking companies and their custom

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

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateCchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Friday, Oct. 11, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The dollar will rise against the Japanese yen after the market realizes that Japanese interest rates

Aviva Freudmann has been named editorial director of The Journal of Commerce, Donald D. Holt, the ne

Mayor Richard Leibinger thought he had a great idea to get skeptical townspeople behind the planned

GREENPEACE PROTESTSAT SOYBEAN TEST PLOTATLANTIC, Iowa - Greenpeace protesters occupied a tes

Construction of a gas pipeline linking the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan and neighboring Iran

The European Union's top transport official last week promised a complete review of state aids permi

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 20, '95 - Oct. 11, '96 (a graph)* A

BOEING'S SATELLITE DESIGNLIGHTER, LESS EXPENSIVESEATTLE - The Boeing Co. said its new satell