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By the end of the week, the U.S. Customs Service is set to come out with its second hit list of fore

Don't worry, be happy.That was the thrust of Tim Rhein's message Tuesday to the transportati

Ringing the bell to open trading Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, former Treasury Secreta

With the protectionists stopped, the Philippines' insurance industry seems set for rapid expansion f

Western Germany's consumer price index rose 0.5 percent in February from January, and was up 1.4 per

The United Kingdom's gross domestic product rose by a real, seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent in the f

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has approved the establishment of five more local insurance compan

A construction company has won a concession for the multiple-use terminal at Mexico's important Gulf

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A triple whammy of weather, economic conditions and a major accident will sharply depress Wisconsin

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The Japan External Trade Organization said it will reinforce its support of Foreign Access Zones in

It's too early to tell if shipping deregulation proposals contemplated in government and industry wi

John Youngbeck, chief executive officer of the International Intermodal Expo, believes the intermoda

A study of the effects on heart patients of a new drug marketed in Europe ended abruptly when data r

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Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Although trade ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean delayed until next year a decision on

The containership Sea Fox's crane lowered a red container to the cobblestone ground at the dock next

For the first time in 14 years, railroad intermodal loadings failed to set a record in 1995, sending

The companies that haul freight around Europe with a combination of trucks and trains had a rough 19

A year ago the challenge for drayage trucking companies was finding drivers.Today the challe

From ocean shipping reform to entry of Mexican goods under the North American Free Trade Agreement,

With Amtrak's 25th anniversary comes the expiration in April of the operating agreements it has with

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

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 25, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

British services and marketing conglomerate Inchcape PLC on Monday reported a 92 percent drop in pro

Portland International Airport continued its record-setting cargo and passenger totals in January, w

''We've had a lot of events lately. The cleaning bills will kill you.''

A Calgary oil company refused to be pressured by the United States to stop doing business in Cuba, t

Already a fixture on more than 1.3 million U.S. railcars equipped with transponders, data communicat

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months. The Journal of Commerce assumes

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A former executive director of the Maryland Port Administration settled charges that he traded in Ba

U.S. transportation stocks emerged relatively unscathed last week, leaving The Journal of Commerce t

Last year when most of the world's largest container lines announced plans to participate in long-te

Intermodal infrastructure and access is so crucial to Northwest ports that they seem to be in a cons

John D. Rathbun has a unique plan to deal with blizzards, floods and other demonstrations of nature'

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 25, '96 (a graph)(2)

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Mar. 20, 1996, as supplied by the bunker fuel