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Friday Oct. 20, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Oct. 20, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Despite some Republican threats to "zero-out" Amtrak, the government-owned passenger rail service is

Republican Sen. Larry Pressler is about to jolt the Senate out of its ocean shipping deregulation sl

It started out as a small factory founded by a retired bureaucrat, at a time when owning a color tel

FAIRWAY TERMINAL CORP. (Houston, Texas) - Laura L. Crumley was named vice president of finance for t

A strange new world is coming for insurers, reinsurers and brokers. "You will see lots of th

For decades, ambitious road, rail and waterway networks linking South America's most southern nation

With little more than a week in which to meet a lucrative Japanese export order for a large canning

AGENT POE & BROWN'S EARNINGS CONTINUED TO CLIMB IN THIRD QUARTERTAMPA, Fla. - Insura

Garbage in, garbage out. That's what computer programers say when something goes wrong in a computer

Richard du Moulin, chairman of Marine Transport Lines Inc., will take over as chairman of the Intern

The insurance industry said it was hit with $1.6 billion in insured property loss in the third quart

After struggling for years in a marketplace where too much capacity chased too little freight, CSX C

State-owned Air India will buy two more Boeing 747-400 aircraft. The Ministry of Finance has

Australia, the world's leading raw sugar exporter and a major player in Asia,plans to tap ne

EXECUTIVE: MOSCOW HAS ENOUGH GRAINMOSCOW - Moscow has enough grain despite the poor

The other shoe has dropped. After all the rate erosion seen in recent days on containerized

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

Denmark's consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in September from a month earlier, the National Statistic

Leaders and top officials of the 114 countries of the Non-Aligned Movement pledged to forge economic

FARM EXPORT PROGRAMS NEEDED, CONGRESS TOLDSlashing export promotion programs could cost the

The Air Line Pilots Association late Friday accepted an offer of binding arbitration in its negotiat

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COALITION DRILLS HORIZONTAL OIL WELLHOUGHTON, Mich. - A coalition of industry and tw

Cotton Outlook has cut its 1995-96 world cotton production estimate for a second consecutive month,

With the Dec. 18 opening of the U.S.-Mexico border to international trucking fast approaching, truck

New York Mercantile Exchange - Oct. 20, 1995 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

The U.S. Trade Representative's Office will examine charges by striking Boeing Co. machinists that t

Japan's giant Matsushita group announced on Friday it was investing heavily in building new computer

LLOYD TRIESTINO OFFERS NORTH EUROPE SERVICELONDON - The Italian container line Lloyd

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a state ruling

With the recent addition of two new 50-long-ton post-Panamax gantry cranes, priced at $5.9 million e

JAPAN OFFERS INSURANCE FOR MITSUI RUSSIA SALETOKYO - The government will apply trade

CATs, it would seem, truly do have nine lives. Catastrophe-insurance contract options - the

Reductions in nighttime noise at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and other steps should satisfy

Barge operators are adopting a wait-and-see approach to a massive revamping of the U.S. Coast Guard

As the date nears for Mickey Kantor's long-expected move to the Clinton re- election campaign, leadi

Miffed at rail shipments lasting as long as some vacations, a few Colorado potato shippers are swear

The last time so many hurricanes approached the United States, Franklin Roosevelt was in the White H