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Despite the beginnings of a recovery being seen in the trucking industry, new orders for heavy truck

MAURITANIA SEIZESHUGE HEROIN SHIPMENTNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritanian police seized 6.75

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

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Tuesday, following the bond market lower.Tuesday's July co

A small fire in the cockpit of an American Airlines jet forced an emergency landing, officials said

Four automotive powers Tuesday started the first round of consultations in a World Trade Organizatio

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 18, '95 - Aug. 13, '96 (a graph)* A

A graphic appearing on Page 1A of the Aug. 9 edition of The Journal of Commerce should have listed P

Two trains carrying badly needed raw materials to a White Pine, Mich., copper mine Tuesday ran over

CSX TRANSPORTATIONRaymond L. Sharp was appointed vice president of coal sales and marketing

CALIFORNIA HERMESSTILL ON FIRELONDON - The container carrier California Hermes was still on

Ampace Corp., a holding company formed last year to acquire truckload carriers, has signed an agreem

Tanker owners tried to achieve economies of scale in the oil trades by building huge ships in excess

The Clinton administration will mount a ''full court press'' to make this year's Middle East/North A

DAEWOO GROUP WINSTELECOM CONTRACTSEOUL - South Korea's Daewoo Business Group said Tuesday it

Maersk Inc., of Copenhagen, one of the world's largest container operators, has won a contract to mo

''The unions, the trial lawyers, the liberals, and the Washington bureaucrats - and their allies in

Trucks aren't pulling their weight in paying off the cost of the year-old international bridge linki

Taiwan's high-speed rail route along the heavily populated west coast will probably be stalled until

SAN JUAN-MIDWESTCAPACITY EXPANDS AT LEPSAN JUAN - LEP Profit International Inc. expanded its

Despite recent reforms in Russia, U.S. food and drink exporters still can't break into one of the la

Aug. 13, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

1068 (Aug. 13, 1996) Previous day - 1063The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Sanctions against Iran and Libya signed into law last Monday by President Clinton represent an illeg

KOBE STEEL TO HELPINDIA FIRM MAKE TIRES TOKYO - Kobe Steel Ltd. has contracted to provide ti

The United States sees no chance of compensation for Chilean growers who lost millions of dollars in

German shareholder group SdK urged the government to take legal steps to improve corporate governanc

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The Hong Kong unit of China's principal ocean carrier moved Tuesday to quash a spate of stock market

Haiti's Senate approved a controversial package of reforms to help liberalize the country's economy,

Kvaerner ASA, Europe's largest shipbuilder, said Monday its pretax earnings fell 56 percent in the f

TWO OBTAIN INTERESTSIN KAZAKHSTAN OIL FIELDTOKYO - Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. and Sumit

Republican leaders responding enthusiastically to GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole's economic pla

While most of the action in drafting the Republican party platform adopted here this week centered o

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

Republican candidate Bob Dole continues to throw a favorite line into his convention speeches: U.S.

As of Aug. 13, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 249.30 up 3.16 whi

Aug. 13, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent