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Never before have Europe's ports been under so much pressure to improve customer service, reduce cos

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

Taiwan's hopes for a quick end to tension with China and resumption of normal vessel and air traffic

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MOODY'S DOWNGRADESMET LIFE RATINGNEW YORK - Moody's Investors Service last week downgraded t

Swiss industrial production fell 2.0 percent year on year in the fourth quarter 1995, while new orde

The Danish Port of Ensted, Ijmuiden in the Netherlands, and Britain's Redcar may not be household na

US TO FUND $2 BILLIONOF $3.4 BILLION IN PROJECTSWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration anno

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 24 '95, - Mar. 15, '96 (a graph)(2)

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

With computer use soaring in China, more companies are jockeying for a chance to write programs in t

Railroad consolidation in the 1990s may look, at first glance, like the wave that swept the industry

More than 20 carriers offer container service across the North Atlantic every week, although some do

Mexican drug maker Signa SA de CV last week became the first private company making use of a provisi

A year after it formally burst onto the truckload scene, Con-Way Truckload Services is doubling the

Canadian authorities will start publishing the identities of foreign-flag ships that fail safety ins

Several countries whose wheat imports from the United States were suspended because of the discovery

If the Clinton administration is indeed taking a ''breather'' from pushing for free trade at this we

BOARD SEEKS COMMENTSON SERVICE PRESERVATIONWASHINGTON - The Surface Transportation Board ann

Fueled by heavy demand for exports and livestock feed, corn futures prices hit record highs last wee

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

Kansai International Airport Co. said an Osaka city government affiliate will open Osaka City Air Te

About the only thing European ports have in common is that they load and unload cargoes from ships.<

Mar. 15, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Totem Ocean Trailer Express Inc., a liner operator serving the Alaska trade, will add a third roll-o

The resignations of top executives of banks that founded seven failed housing loan companies or ''ju

ATLANTIC MUTUAL COS. (New York) - Kermit C. Smith was appointed senior executive vice president. He

Is Romania the next diamond-in-the-rough market for insurance brokers?Marsh & McLennan Inc.

Russia, shrugging off concern about the safety of its civilian nuclear installations, plans to bring

Friday, March 15, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The dollar will rise like a Chinese rocket this week, fueled by ideas that the U.S. economy is havin

The World Bank's board of directors likes a proposal to provide more debt relief to the world's poor

In the December trade report that appeared Feb. 29 on Page 7B, the table ''Exports, Imports and Bala

As the captain of the world's largest containership prepared for its maiden voyage a few weeks ago a

REGIONAL BLOCSSummit of the Americas. May 17-18. New Orleans. Contact: Office of Com

JAPAN WILL CONSIDERTALKS ON CHIP PACTTOKYO - Softening Tokyo's refusal to discuss re

Green used to denote someone who was a bit naive, or at the very least a novice in a particular acti

Australia's new conservative government said it was ending 13 years of curbs on uranium exports, ang

The exceptionally severe winter of 1996 and a weak international air freight market combined to give

European and Japanese trading partners counting on the United States to sign a landmark pact by June