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There's been some improvement, but for the most part shipping lines serving China are still struggli

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The likelihood of crop yields on the Canadian prairies being above average this year is "very slim,"

The New York Shipping Association on Thursday announced deep cuts in its tonnage assessment, part of

On the same day that the European Union attacked U.S. trade policy and practices, the EU-endorsed ch

Japan's current account surplus with Southeast Asia last year soared 26.5 percent from the previous

When British inspectors boarded the APJ Karan recently, they were appalled by what they saw.

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The Child Labor Coalition called off a boycott of Bangladesh textile and apparel products as the Sou

The European Commission unveiled a new strategy toward China Wednesday, aimed at boosting European e

US SOFTWARE FIRMS HIT JAPANESE STANDARDS PLANTOKYO - A letter signed by the chief ex

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. Wednesday bought the investment management firm of David L.

State-owned Indian Oil Corp. reportedly is losing millions of dollars a month in foreign exchange to

The Port of Vancouver, Wash., has begun a $12.6 million rail improvement project at its grain facili

CSX Transportation Inc. has purchased 40 percent of the stock in Indiana Rail Road Co. and proposed

China plans to import large amounts of natural gas to cope with its spectacular economic growth that

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

More than 12 percent of ships detained in European and Canadian ports during the first three months

The fight over a plan to change regulatory oversight of Great Lakes pilots is causing a feud within

Science and commerce joined hands last month when a group of Chinese seismologists and natural disas

Ingalls Shipbuilding would be forced to lay off workers, and production costs for an amphibious assa

A government review and environmental concerns could put on hold billions ofdollars of hydro

With Republican budget cutters bearing down on Amtrak's balance sheet, threatening the future of the

Three of America's big energy names are among 34 bidders in what may become fierce competition for e

Wednesday July 5, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

As U.S. and Japanese negotiators meet in Washington today and Friday in a bid to defuse an aviation

Borrowing costs in Canada could dip as soon as this week - if the U.S. Federal Reserve decides on ra

The World Bank expects to lend about $9 billion to China over the next three years, adding to an agg

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The Transportation Department's Research and Special Projects Administration is distributing $12 mil

Neil Kinnock, the European Union's transport commissioner, is expected shortly to veto a $1 billion

Trains will be going more than twice as fast across the East Pascagoula River beginning tonight.

OPEC oil production edged down a mere 5,000 barrels a day in June to an estimated average output of

Germany's Hoechst chemicals group plans to cut about 8,000 jobs in its pharmaceuticals division by t

The Port of Yokohama said the number of containers handled in April rose 29 percent from a year earl

Cast North America is joining three other carriers as a partner in the Joint Mediterranean Canada Se

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