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When best-selling author John Grisham helped a Mississippi widow get a $700,000 judgment arising fro

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The Transportation Department Thursday denied Republican charges that agency personnel travel too mu

In a case that highlights the nightmares of doing business overseas, a small Texas company has filed

Operating results for American President Cos. in the fourth quarter were up marginally as rate press

China's domestic computer manufacturers are being advised to gear up for an explosion in demand as m

Feb. 1, 1996 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Clyde Dodson, a former top official with the District 1/Marine Engineers Beneficial Association-Nati

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Moody's Investors Service gave its first insurance financial strength rating to the long-term fund o

A Swedish shipbroking firm is accusing oil companies of flouting their own safety standards and cont

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The European Union's energy ministers will spend the weekend trying to pin down an elusive agreement

U.S.-Chinese tensions continued to simmer Thursday over Taiwan, U.S. accusations of rampant copyrigh

For the first time in the history of intermodalism, trucking, rail and ocean carriers have achieved

Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal traffic into and out of Los Angeles- Long Beach was cut off

NAC Re Corp. reported an increase in net income, including net investmentgains, of 105.2 per

'K' LINE TO END SERVICE WITH AUSTRALIAN FIRMTOKYO - Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. said

Punxsutawney Phil may be looking for his shadow this Groundhog Day, but property/casualty insurers a

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A bill to permanently grant U.S. most favored nation trade status to 17 countries that now need annu

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A steady decline in recent transportation freight volume indicators reinforces the growing belief th

The Pentagon has tapped more than a dozen commercial sea and air carriers to help move troops and eq

U.S. government and industry spokesmen raised the prospect Thursday of U.S. trade reprisals if Canad

New export orders for factory products, the lone bright spot in December manufacturing figures, suff

Federal farm policy hit a roadblock Thursday, just a day after it appeared both the House and Senate

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After a dismal year in which the Mexican economy shrank by about 7 percent, maritime industry execut

Germany is among Mate Punch and Die Co.'s leading export markets, generating about 9 percent of tota

Since the dawn of shipping, cargo owners have been concerned with having their goods transported in

Business representatives in Bangladesh are urging the government to expand the container terminal an

The Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka handled a record 1 million boxes in 1995, generating income of 5.5

The huge truck bomb that gutted Colombo's prime commercial area will badly hit Sri Lanka's important

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