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Cool containers will be the grist for hot discussions at the Refrigerated Transportation Conference,

Investors' preference for larger companies will speed the shipping industry's moves toward mergers a

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, June 21, '94 - June 23, '95 (a graph) (2

China's economic planners can look back at the first half of 1995 with some satisfaction. Th

Friday, June 23, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The approval of Telefonos de Mexico's purchase of a 49 percent stake in cable-TV giant Cablevision S

The economics of cotton is a multiheaded hydra. While cotton prices - aided by world consump

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A swarm of pests that crossed the Mexican border has devastated the cotton fields of southern Texas,

A year ago, George G. Baima had empty trucks and no drivers to get them filled. Today, he ha

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels get money where they can to fund their separatist war effort, but the

Russia plans to present Kuwait with 20 potential oil and natural-gas projects to invest in, Russian

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 237.28 off 0.18

June 23, 1995 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

One might think the only way to escape from the overload of information on O.J. - the live coverage

Further evidence of the ideological split among China's leadership over what to do with its creaking

Margaret Barry, director of publications for Columbia Business School, to director of communications

Hundreds of household names - and thousands of motor carriers you probably never heard of - are turn

Refrigerants with nondescript names like Klea 134a and R-404A - both classified as hydrofluorocarbon

The phaseout of the gaseous compound most commonly used to cool international containers is forcing

China's state refiner Sinopec and customs authorities have agreed to join forces in a bid to stamp o

The only way to build a viable coastal-shipping industry in the United States is to abolish the Jone

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has placed the District Court on a fa

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Somewhat over a year since getting into the ocean freight business, Airborne Express' ocean division

With the large numbers of new vessels they have ordered, dry bulk and containership owners clearly e

Raising the stakes in a legislative battle over Amtrak reform, House Republican leaders said Thursda

Sweden's industrial production rose 14.4 percent in April, compared with April 1994, the Central Bur

As the United States and Canada ducked one contentious dispute over the alleged preservation of Cana

Word has it that Japan and the United States will settle their automotive trade dispute soon. As par

Boeing Co.'s first 767 freighter took wing in a flawless first flight this week, carrying a payload

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The Overseas Private Investment Corp. board approved up to $200 million in political risk insurance

State-owned Shipping Corp. of India will invest 33 billion rupees (US$1 billion) to buy 40 vessels i

Mexico and Canada will sign letters of agreement, possibly as early as today, to end a row over Cana

French definitive consumer prices rose by 0.2 percent in May, compared with April, and increased 1.6

Motorists should be prepared to pay more for gasoline this Fourth of July, as a record number of tra

Sri Lanka is considering a proposal by a consortium of foreign oil and power companies to build a $2

The Philippines' trade deficit widened 11.3 percent, to $2.75 billion in the first four months of 19