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Truck drivers have been falling asleep at the wheel almost as long as there have been trucks. But 19

Du Pont Co. said it will take two fourth-quarter charges totaling $83 million for an accounting chan

BALTIC PORT'S EXPORTS OF OIL HIT 5-YEAR HIGHVENTSPILS, Latvia - Crude and product ex

"We will no longer lose market share in a growing market."

From 1992 to 1994, the number of newly built railcars nearly doubled. Last year new cars rose anothe

TROOP CONTAINERS "My customer is troop support, and my job is not to promote the maritime in

TICKET PLEASE "The airlines are greedy, period."_ John J. Driscoll, director, Los Angeles In

AIR FRANCE CARGO Sten GrotenfeltExecutive Vice PresidentWorldwide economic condition

The year was thick and overgrown with news events for the shipping industry. Shipbuilding agreements

W.R. BERKLEY CORP. (Greenwich, Conn.) - The board of directors elected John D. Vollaro president and

It's late. It's dark. You're leaving an appointment at a client's office in a part of town you don't

A small port in the eastern state of Orissa is to be expanded and developed into an all-weather faci

American Commercial Barge Line Inc. is launching a major initiative to create South American markets

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By all rights, this should have been a week of celebration for Union Pacific Corp. After all

Open interest in the new Brazilian real futures contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange last wee

Production at Amoco UK's Leman gas field in the southern North Sea was ''tentatively" restarted Thur

A rebirth of Russian nationalism is reflected in the surprising success of the Russian Bistro, a new

Hong Kong's trade promotion agency is looking for at least modest recovery in the retail sectors of

Lorna Edwards' father, like most prosperous men in the Philippines, had maids and assistants to help

Jan. 4, 1996 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

RUSSIA RESUMES SUPPLIES OF CRUDE OIL TO HUNGARYLONDON - Russian crude oil supplies t

Patrick Giles, director-general of the Far Eastern Freight Conference since 1992, is stepping down i

The Port of Montreal and the Canadian Coast Guard have had to take heroic measures, including rebuil

Large numbers of North Korean children will die of malnutrition in the next few weeks if rich countr

Mexico has altered the airport tariff program it created when decentralizing airport services and ha

U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc., a Chattanooga, Tenn., truck holding company, is merging the operations

The young Western businessman working in Saudi Arabia knew a good deal when he saw one. ''I

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This is the second of a three-column series on the Incoterms 1990 international terms of sale. Our D

DENMARK'S STATOIL TO BOOST OIL OUTPUTCOPENHAGEN - Statoil expects to increase its oi

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LA WIDENS LEAD AS TOP TRADE SPOTLOS ANGELES - International commerce through the Los

German metals and chemicals group Metallgesellschaft AG (MG) has launched an internal inquiry into a

A new annuity product just launched on the World Wide Web claims to offer a better value because the

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. agreed to pay $1 million for violating New York state insuran

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - Margaret J. Liptay joined the risk management consulting com

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