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Heavy-truck sales declined sharply in March from record levels of last year, confirming forecasts of

Fan Wei squats in the mud as he waits for trucks carrying Vietnamese mangoes to cross the border int

The U.S. dollar rose against the Deutsche mark Thursday and was unchanged against the Japanese yen.<

American President Lines will be a viable competitor for less-than-containerload business between ma

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1454 (Apr. 11, 1996) Previous day - 1456The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

''$5,800 is a lot of money. Maybe not for a big multinational. But for a small company $5,800 can bu

FOUR CHINESE ARRESTEDFOR TRADING IN PANDA FURHONG KONG - Four Chinese were arrested in the s

Just over two weeks after Taiwan held a presidential election that stirred China to furious protest,

7-YEAR-OLD PILOT KILLEDIN WYOMING CRASHCHEYENNE, Wyo. - A 7-year-old girl trying to become t

The supervisory board of Germany's largest shipbuilder, Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG, agreed at a meetin

The fragile Sino-American relationship stands at a crossroads - again.Along one fork lies a

Making a Lazarus-like comeback, a controversial private toll highway proposed at the border with Mex

Cotton shippers and freight forwarders who book cotton for export are making an urgent plea to the s

FELIXSTOWE OPENSNEW CONTAINER TERMINALLONDON - Britain's Port of Felixstowe expects containe

Transportation Secretary Federico Pena chose eight states to test the use of state infrastructure ba

Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. said Thursday it received Food and Drug Administration

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The Florida House Wednesday approved a hurricane insurance reform package that would extend for thre

Primed by enticing tax breaks, Alberta's oil sands industry is planning to pump in big investments t

U.S. wheat supplies coming into the spring harvest could fall to their lowest point in nearly 50 yea

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France and China defiantly signed a series of trade agreements this week during a controversial visi

The United States and four Latin American banana producing nations Thursday filed a request with the

Eduardo Stein, Guatemala's minister of foreign affairs, said Thursday the Inter-American Development

FORTIS MULLS BUYINGGERMAN INSURERBRUSSELS - The insurance and financial services company For

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 258.91 up 3.09

RUSSIAN FIRM TO STARTWORK ON PSA PROJECTMOSCOW - Sakhalinmorneftegaz, a Russian member of a

Nigeria has started to sell crude oil to South Africa following the lifting of a ban on trade with P

A new Pennsylvania law makes it illegal for insurers to deny health coverage to domestic violence vi

Worries about ''mad cow'' disease are prompting cautious Japanese consumers to avoid eating beef, de

Despite setbacks and scuttled deals in recent years, U.S. government and shipbuilding leaders remain

A marked recovery in liner shipping activities contributed to an improvement in profit last year for

China said Thursday it is helping foreign companies establish footholds without getting cheated by u

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

Washington state's marine safety office has given small tank barge operators a big break by lowering

When the inaugural meeting of the US/Caribbean Business Development Council begins in Kingston next