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Union Pacific Railroad Friday made a new trackage rights proposal to Kansas City Southern Railway in

For most of the world's grain-hungry nations, the news from the United Nations was not good.

Southern Africa's leading sugar producers, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, are each anticipati

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U.S. businesses are pressing telling seven Southeast Asia nations they must open their economies fur

"We are all Europskeptics now."

Japan's army landed at the Port of Tacoma last month. Japanese military helicopters and othe

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A yearlong delay in U.S. export financing for a controversial dam project in China apparently will c

The United States will not default on its debt, and the sun will come out tomorrow for the dollar, c

Russian finance and trade company Yuvelirprom said it will buy 30.25 tons of gold in 1996 from Rosko

Despite protests from the importing and forwarding community, a divided Port of Seattle Commission l

As political reform opens new export markets for South Africa's manufacturers, domestic insurers are

The port industry's own Joe Scroggins Jr., a member of the Federal MaritimeCommission by way

The United States in talks last week pressured Japan to open its telecommunications market further t

Seasonally adjusted registered unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 453,000, or 7.0 percent of t

Missiles may be pointed at Poland. Nuclear weapons could be redeployed. Spying in Western Europe wil

The American Association of Port Authorities expects its largest convention turnout in more than a d

Two Mexican companies involved in transportation have formed a joint venture with a Texas short-line

USDA LOWERS ESTIMATE FOR BRAZIL COFFEE OUTPUTWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agr

Malaysia's oft-criticized insurance industry is adopting new technology to improve efficiency, as re

The supreme courts of Oklahoma and Texas have ruled that property/casualty insurers do not have to p

The nation's two longshore unions will negotiate new contracts with shipping lines and stevedores in

Pacific Northwest ports have screamed long and loud for more than eight years about a federal cargo

Strip away the excuses and two bare facts emerge: Port officials face greater public scrutin

FRANCE CALLS PROTEST IN AUSTRALIA 'PIRACY'CANBERRA, Australia - France's embassy in

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 14 '94 - Oct. 12, '95 (a graph) (2)

The U.S. retail industry has discovered logistics as a way to cut costs from the supply chain.

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Striking union machinists marched to Boeing Co. headquarters here Wednesday with the message that th

High coffee prices on the world market have cut the profit margins of Sara Lee/Douwe Egberts, the Am

British Gas PLC, the country's sole supplier of natural gas, said it supports the opening of the gas

ARCTIC REFUGE BILL LIKELY TO BE DROPPEDA bill that would open up the Arctic National Wildlif

Environmental ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico meet today in this southern coloni

The Czech economy is outperforming all others in the former communist bloc, but the country's deteri

Key California agricultural crops were hit hard by torrential rains this past winter, but you'd neve

Only one of them - Long Beach - makes it to the top 10 list of busiest U.S. ports for all products,

Oct. 12, 1995 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent