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Back when George Saunders was an officer aboard a Keystone Shipping Co. tanker, he used to see passi

Baltic Shipping Co., once one of the world's biggest ship lines, is close to collapse, raising the p

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Are American dentists, plastic surgeons and chiropractors about to invade the Canadian health-care m

Friday, March 22, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

In the 1990s, the thieves among us are interested less in diamonds, gold or even cocaine.Rat

Shippers pushing for changes to the proposed Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger may get some help

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 22, '96 (a graph)(2)

After nudging interest rates downward in December and January, the Federal Reserve Board's Open Mark

The Port of Oakland, in a move that could speed up its next channel-deepening project by two to thre

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

GLOBAL OCEAN SEES RISEIN OPERATING REVENUEPIRAEUS - Global Ocean Carriers Ltd. recently anno

Germany's building industry, which boomed for five years after unification, is poised to shrink by 1

The U.S. dollar will rise this week on expectations that Germany will cut its interest rates before

The European Commission, acting as the EU's merger authority, has cleared the acquisition of the wor

Taiwan's principal port isn't letting political tensions get in the way of its dreams.A new

The European Commission on Friday announced it was ready to approve the takeover by U.S. conglomerat

Its name may sound like ''hen's coop'' in Chinese, but the plans officials have for Taiwan's norther

A House International Relations subcommittee took the first step Friday toward congressional passage

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

The strike by the United Auto Workers union over outsourcing that slammed on the brakes at General M

An advisory panel to the minister of international trade and industry called Friday for repealing an

In a bid to attract more U.S. and other foreign investors, Haiti's new government plans a series of

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

The European Union is bracing itself for a potential collapse in its domestic and export beef market

France is threatening sanctions against U.S. carriers after the Department of Transportation refused

A Communist coup or gross miscalculation?The March 15 vote by Russia's State Duma, calling f

Fritz Cos., the San Francisco-based freight forwarding and logistics company, is mired in a bitter d

World Trade chief Renato Ruggiero warned Friday that time is running out to broker a successful mark

''I feel the Bengals and Reds are engaging in extortion and blackmail.''

Encouraged by the promise of a $400 million federal loan, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Author

CUSTOMS TO HOST PARLEYON HERBAL INGREDIENTSLOS ANGELES - The U.S. Customs Service wi

The Massachusetts Port Authority's rock-solid bond rating may be in danger of hitting the rocks afte

LUFTHANSA, AIR CANADASIGN COOPERATION PACTFRANKFURT - Lufthansa German Airlines and Air Cana

Exel Logistics North America received the 1995 Logistics Partner Award for outstanding performance f

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

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USAfrica Airways Inc., the bankrupt airline that ceased operations last year, has given up efforts t

China's resumption of strong-armed tactics in its bid to join the World Trade Organization failed to

Foreign bankers are finding new opportunities in Latin America as those nations open their financial