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Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

Australia's iron ore production will increase by 24 percent to 158 million tons by 2005 and exports

Friday Jan. 5, 1996 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, admired in the West but reviled by Russian conservatives, resigned

JUST YOU WAIT "When I get to the Oval Office, I cancel Nafta and the new world order comes c

The announcement by Taiwan Power Co. that it will ship low-level nuclear waste to Russia for disposa

Merger-minded railroad executives will have a hard time in 1996 topping a record level of $10.5 bill

The owners of defunct ANA Insurance Co., which once wrote liability automobile coverage in Louisiana

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

American and Singaporean companies will join with local firms to build an international airport in t

Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) Inc. has plugged a hole in its Southern Hemisphere network, creating

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

Take a look at almost any trade problem, dispute or structural imbalance in the U.S.-Japan relations

Economists and other experts may have to resort to flipping coins, rolling dice or reading entrails

If a container falls off a cargo ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean and The Journal of Commerce

Jan. 5, 1996 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

The global competitiveness gap between rich and poor nations could widen further if the developing w

CANADA, MALAYSIA PLAN TO SIGN BUSINESS DEALSKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Canadian Prime

Export Opportunities, which is supplied by the U.S. Department of Commerce, is not available for pub

REGIONAL BLOCS Surfing the Global Net From Caribbean Shores. Feb. 26-27. Barbados. C

If 1995 was the year that protection and indemnity clubs finally reached agreement over imiting insu

Massive cargo ships and tankers glide in long convoys through the Suez Canal, modern incarnations of

AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINES (Jeffersonville, Ind.) - William Schmidt was named manager of liquid

Jan. 5, 1996 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

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The Overseas Private Investment Corp. will provide $200 million in financing for a new Argentine mob

WEST VIRGINIA SCALES PREMIUMS TO PAY LEVELCHARLESTON, W.Va. - The board that manages the Pub

Sea-Land Service Inc. is chartering cargo space on Maersk Line ships in the Europe/Asia trades ahead

Many in the industry made personnel changes in 1995, including: MARITIMEAmerican Ass

RIGHT IN THE EYE "The Americans are our best friends, whether we like it or not."_ Canadian

The Federal Maritime Commission's probe of ocean carrier competition on the North Atlantic trade lan

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