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Norway's consumer price index fell 0.1 percent in July from a month earlier, the Central Bureau of S

Amsterdam's future as the world's top cocoa port is being decided in corridors and back rooms in Bru

Shipping deregulation legislation threatens to disrupt the economies of entire communities on the Ea

China formally opened five deep- water berths of 35,000-deadweight-ton capacity this week at the sou

The comprehensive development plan of the city of Auburn, Wash., violates state law and prevents a p

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Japan's largest auto labor union said it wants to eliminate a law restricting women from working lat

Newport News Shipbuilding could avoid limits on the discharge of the toxic boat paint TBT, while the

Disposable diapers, surgical gloves and margarine from the United States will be finding their way t

Brazil's former minister of finance, Rubens Ricupero, is slated to be appointed the next secretary g

Monday's strike that shut down the entire West Coast waterfront was called to protest "a number of l

KOREA PETROCHEMICAL CUTS ETHYLENE OUTPUTSEOUL, South Korea - Korea Petrochemical Ind

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MEXICAN TEQUILA MAKERS DRAW A LIME IN THE SANDWASHINGTON - Leaders of Mexico's tequi

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Opposition politicians said they're pressing for a government investigation into a report that Mexic

A report this week from the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. notes that cargo tonnage through

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Broking company Alexander & Alexander announced last week the establishment of a Global Infrastructu

The Pakistani government Tuesday unveiled a package of incentives to attract foreign and local inves

Oil companies here will start using containers to speed up the domestic transport of gas oil, a Petr

Long barred from cabotage shipping along Brazil's 7,000 kilometers (4,340 miles) of coastline and th

The Illinois River isn't moving; but barge rates are. Rates are rising. Shippers all along t

N. KOREA CANCELS TALKS WITH SOUTH ON RICESEOUL, South Korea - North Korea shelved ri

CF MotorFreight, the nation's third-largest less-than-truckload carrier, is defying conventional wis

Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena said Tuesday that replacing the Chicago Air Route Traffic

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Alaska's oil patch is becoming more attractive to independent oil companies willing to help develop

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A group of rural U.S. telephone companies has gained a foothold in Hungary, where the post-Communist

AFRICA REMAINS AN ALSO-RAN in the global race for prosperity. One of the few countries once consider

Rational - as distinguished from vindictive - regulation by public authority turns out to be an extr

Although 1995 is a farm bill year, neither the Clinton administration nor Congress has been willing

ZURICH REINSURANCE TURNS AROUND, POSTS PROFIT FOR THE SECOND QUARTERNEW YORK - Zuric

Construction has started on a $100 million Du Pont nylon plant in Taiwan, the company's second big i