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CSX Intermodal Inc. announced plans Friday to build a 500-acre intermodal terminal 20 miles outside

KWE ESTABLISHESAFRICAN AFFILIATEROSYLN HEIGHTS, N.Y. - Kintetsu World Express established it

A unanimous decision by a U.S. government bank to turn down loans for a giant dam in China added fue

Mexican Commerce officials have opened unfair trade investigations into U.S. exports of fuel additiv

The State Ports Authority, which is being sued by a newspaper challenging its secret search for a ne

May 31, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Overweight containers are a bigger problem than most people, including a fellow columnist on these p

Placing Arizona and sections of California, New Mexico and Texas under a wheat fungus quarantine cam

For the week ended May 25, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 15

Two distributors and a medical claims processor expanded operations in Spokane, Wash., a growing bus

Expectations of a half-point increase in U.S. interest rates at the July Federal Open Market Committ

The Panama Canal, one of the world's great shortcuts, was scheduled to begin a week of repairs Sunda

China's booming export trades could soon extend to seafarers.Chinese authorities are eager t

Britain's latest privatized rail company is planning a big increase in the number of maritime contai

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

New York Mercantile Exchange - May 31, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

An association representing smaller workers' compensation insurers in California will disband and jo

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

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Even though diesel prices have been falling for the last six weeks, another sector of the trucking i

''We will look at any reasonable proposal, but we're greeting his proposal with a huge yawn.''

A broad agreement has been reached on modified Iran-Libya sanctions with the White House, a key Hous

EC FILES COMPLAINTOVER JAPANESE PIRACYBRUSSELS - The European Commission, angry at Japan's f

Environmental regulation, smaller harvests, changing production patterns and aggressive competition

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Emerging nations seeking to set up broker regulations now have the NAIB Model Insurance Broker Law t

''The more things change, the more they remain the same.''Or, for the more contemporary amon

Monthlong talks aimed at changing the way the government ships food-aid cargo overseas ended this we

TRUCKSS&P LOWERS RATINGON J.B. HUNTNEW YORK - Standard & Poor's, the financial ratin

First-quarter economic growth was notably less than previously reported, while both exports and impo

BRITAIN NARROWSITS TRADE DEFICITLONDON - Britain's global trade deficit narrowed in March to

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Daily global foreign exchange activity reached $1.2 trillion in April 1995, an increase of 45 percen

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U.S. software developers and their U.S. representatives are pressuring the Treasury Department to am

U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 2.6 million barrels during the week ended May 24, compared with t

Claims for the TT Club skyrocketed last year, increasing by 48 percent to nearly $61 million from ju

Two proposed measures being considered by the state legislature could impose a $20 surcharge on dome

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