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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 236.66 up 0.12 wh

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A House Appropriations subcommittee has rejected an attempt to save a 14-year federal moratorium on

The U.S. international trade deficit in April rose to a new monthly high of $11.3 billion as imports

Leasing rates on marine containers are up 3 percent to 7 percent on average since last summer and ar

Asia's US$5 billion car insurance industry will double by the year 2002, but insurers face a bumpy r

Ford Motor Co. will be allowed to continue its lawsuit against several insurance companies for envir

EU COMMISSION CLEARS AIR FRANCE SUBSIDYThe European Commission Wednesday cleared a 5 billion

After running into fierce environmentalist opposition to using dump sites in New York and Connecticu

RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK CUTS BASIC INTEREST RATEMOSCOW - The Central Bank of Russia ann

The big containership companies active on the North Atlantic trade lane have high hopes that freight

Texas outpaced the national average for merchandise exports in the first quarter of 1995 and bettere

There will be a continuing squeeze on Hong Kong container facilities despite improved efficiency, se

The Port of Rotterdam, Europe's biggest containerport, is looking nervously over its shoulder.

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TRADE MINISTRY REGISTERS JORDANIAN OIL FIRMAMMAN, Jordan - A Jordanian national oil company

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Intermodal transportation is designed to yield benefits for customer and carrier alike by combining

The 28-foot container right now only fits one company, although it's a big one - shipping giant Unit

Conrail Inc. has paid $800,000 to settle a suit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Japan's prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju will start generating electricity in August after a tes

As of June 21, 1995 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Plunging crude-oil prices are providing an incentive to some foreign oil companies to resume process

U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil rose by 1.1 million barrels during the week ended June 16 co

US, APEC STAND FIRM ON FREE-TRADE GOALSThe United States and the Asia-Pacific Economic Coope

Inexperienced bankers with more money than sense are baiting shipowners worldwide with tempting offe

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Environmental standards and protection should be part of any future trade accords in the Americas, s

In a move that has caught most truckers by surprise this week, Pennsylvania State Police, armed with

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. is expanding its double-stack train service network to inc

The World Bank has approved a $325 million loan to help Indonesia modernize its telephone system.

Maritime industry analysts who are asked to define the three most important qualities necessary to b

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

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SHELL ABANDONS PLANS TO SINK RIG AT SEALONDON - Shell UK said Tuesday it has decided

Central America is not expected to have a good harvest this year because of drought and credit probl

Russian seafarers employed by foreign shipowners have helped avert a critical labor shortage, said a

French users of hematite pig iron have stepped up pressure on the EuropeanCommission to abol

The nonmetal Ultralite marine container unveiled by American President Lines and two other companies

The graphic "Cotton: Waterborne Exports," which appeared on Page 8B Wednesday, showed 1995 and 1994