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Strategic planning for logistics providers will pay for itself by helping companies avoid the pitfal

Proposals ranging from safeguards for the global economy to improving the economic growth prospects

''They're just chipping away and chipping away at us, and pretty soon the chisel is going to break i

Carriers, ports, labor, politicians, regulatory agents and third parties who are challenging attempt

MITSUI TO STARTSERVICE TO XINGANGSAN FRANCISCO - Japanese carrier Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said i

SONY TV PARTS PLANTWILL OPEN IN SLOVAKIABRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Sony Corp. will open a plant

If Lech Walesa had come here to upstage the new leaders of Poland, he couldn't have done a better jo

1450 (Apr. 12, 1996) Previous day - 1454The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

The Czech Republic's biggest savings bank, Ceska Sporitelna A.S., said its profit tumbled 73 percent

Growth of 13 percent in cargo throughput at India's main ports will please the industry, but the gov

German industrial giant Daimler-Benz AG said late last week it was making good progress toward what

Economic growth in Europe slowed considerably in the second half of 1995 and there was little reason

Apr. 12, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

UNION SWITCH & SIGNAL INC.PittsburghAmount of contract: $6,487,885.Contract descript

The Paris airports authority is counting on Federal Express to boost cargo traffic after being outpe

CHINA SAYS US BLOCKINGITS BID TO JOIN WTOPARIS - Chinese Premier Li Peng on Friday accused t

Members of National & Provincial Building Society last week voted overwhelmingly to approve a propos

A bitter battle for control of the fledgling telecommunications sector in Laos may reflect wider con

President Clinton will visit a Chrysler showroom in Tokyo during his three-day visit to Japan this w

Toyota Motor Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. have each acquired 5.5 percent of Asia Int

In this Saxon city where Johann Sebastian Bach once kept the choir on key, German President Roman He

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Political and business leaders reacted angrily to Swissair's move to redirect 13 long-haul flights f

Apr. 12, 1996RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unle

Apr. 12, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

UKRAINIAN NUCLEAR PLANTREPORTS MINOR LEAKKIEV, Ukraine - A minor leak occurred at a Ukrainia

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

A California state agency gave preliminary approval to a 132-mile pipeline that would carry crude oi

As of Apr. 12, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 260.66 up 1.75 w

Enron Oil & Gas Co. posted first-quarter net income of $25.9 million, down from $29.6 million for th

Apr. 12, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

International Petroleum ExchangeApr. 12, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange - Apr. 12, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

Shell Oil Co. this week will move a colossal platform offshore to develop the deepest well in the Gu

The largest auto insurer in Massachusetts says that unless a state law is changed, as many as 90 per

Farmers have been given until May 2 to obtain catastrophic-risk protection coverage for their spring

Friday Apr. 12, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

China is cutting its target for coal exports this year by 10 million metric tons, or 25 percent, say