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Steamship companies in Mexico are hoping to break the decades-old lock that unions have on port pilo

'Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring - not even com

Transportation providers Tuesday started to dig themselves out from under this week's punishing bliz

"As far as transport, you can just throw out this week."

18 TAIWANESE FIRMS PREPARE TO GO PRIVATETAIPEI - Eighteen state-run Taiwanese compan

The Independent Insurance Agents of America has set new dates for its 1996 midyear meeting and Natio

Canadian housing starts rose 6.6 percent in December, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 111,30

Hong Kong's insurance industry grew 20 percent in 1994 over the previous year, paced by 46 percent e

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum opened its series of meetings for 1996 on Monday, with o

Just about anything can be recycled these days, even old marine terminals if the economics are right

The high-tech industrial development zone in this special economic zone in southern Guangdong provin

A blizzard in the Northeast Monday sent oil prices soaring in London, shut down the New York futures

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

A Scottish insurance industry strategic planning consultant is catching the wave of commercial inter

Britons are baffled about Europe, with more than half describing their knowledge of the European Uni

A North Carolina man who is blind and his guide dog Bronnie embarked on a four-day cruise to the Bah

Sea-Land Service Inc. and Maersk Line are planning to operate seven services a week between Asia and

Coastal Zhejiang province said it now ranks fourth in China in terms of the overall strength of indu

U.S. officials made progress in banana trade talks with Costa Rica over the weekend, but made little

Enron Corp.'s on-again, off-again, multibillion-dollar power project in India appeared to get the fi

Snow insurance would come in handy to New Hampshire towns this winter, but many town officials have

Today's Journal of Commerce is a product of logistics and telecommunications. With a massive

As more and more global traders plug in their personal computers at home and log onto electronic dat

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INSURER'S LIQUIDATORS BATTLE TO CONTROL STOCKHAMILTON, Bermuda - Joint liquidators o

Monday, Jan. 8, 1996 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanad

This thousand-year-old port city is best known to recent history as the scene of one of the ugliest

The storm-related closure of airports and highways in much of the Northeast disrupted freight moveme

INDIAN AIRLINES MULLS MANUFACTURERS' OFFERSNEW DELHI - Indian Airlines, the country'

EU TAX MAY SLOW JET FUEL SWAPSLONDON - The removal Jan. 1 of a European Union tax re

Shippers canceled freight moves, farmers lost sleep over crop-ruining freezes and transportation gri

Allstate Insurance Co. would terminate its 1,600 California agents and make them independent contrac

The dollar was in a holding pattern, trading Monday slightly higher as North American dealings were

"While the Congress and the White House cross swords, our goods aren't crossing borders."

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

China's largest commercial hub and port is moving to turn more of its ideas into products with the c

All was not well with the U.S. economy in 1995, and consumer worries put a damper on the domestic ai

FRANCE MARKS PASSING OF FRANCOIS MITTERRANDPARIS - Former French president Francois

The future of the Far Eastern Freight Conference will be discussed at a meeting of top-level shippin

The first blizzard of 1996 hit Northeast ports harder than a snowball tossedfrom the top of