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FEDEX DAILY VOLUME GREW 16 PERCENT IN APRILMEMPHIS - Federal Express Corp. said its

British Airways said it has opened a new facility at Heathrow Airport to handle premium products.

The United States has rejected a Colombian proposal to revise banana export quotas to Europe.

Pratt & Whitney Engine Co. has signed a US$12-million joint-venture agreement with Taiwan's China Ai

When the advent of digital CD players in the early 1980s severely diminished the market for vinyl LP

The recent sharp appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar could provide new opportunities to

South Korea is likely to witness a substantial increase in foreign-car sales, but overseas producers

Pakistan's mainstay textile industry, hit by three poor cotton crops, is realizing that the days of

Suppliers of the following items seek importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to contac

McDonald's Corp., the world's largest fast food restaurant chain, said Wednesday it will open at lea

Some of the intermodal marketing company executives who followed the truckers at Wednesday's expo ec

CHINESE CITIES REACH 13 PERCENT PHONE COVERAGETelephone coverage in China's urban areas has

Port officials made a plea to their intermodal brethren here to help them in their ongoing battles w

They came not to praise intermodal, but to bury it. Well, maybe not to bury it. But, asked t

It's more expensive than the Los Angeles riots, the blizzards of 1993, the Oakland, Calif., forest f

Insurers and independent agents reacted with disappointment Wednesday after the House Banking Commit

MC SHIPPING CO. (New York) - The company recently named Horst Schomburg to its board of directors.

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The weak dollar contributed to poor first-quarter results of Bergesen D.Y. AS, Norway's largest ship

Angry truck drivers are edging closer to striking the Port of Miami next week, said trucking executi

Port pilots in Long Beach won easy approval this week for a 10 percent rate increase, their first ra

MSC CHRISTENS LAST OF KAISER CLASS OILERSWASHINGTON - The Military Sealift Command c

A refurbished terminal along the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, waterfront opens today as a mu

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The proposed reorganization of the U.S. Department of Transportation should be a gain for intermodal

Despite pressure from a growing population and decreasing farmland, China insists it will be able to

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 9, '94 - May 11, '95 (a graph) (2)DA

France needs to revise its tax structure on energy used for transport in order to favor less polluti

A story headlined "House Plan Takes Aim At Trade, Transport," which appeared on Page 1A of the May 1

Thursday, May 11, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Thailand's foreign exchange market, now in the process of reform and liberalization, has received a

UMWA STRIKERS TO VOTE ON PITTSBURG CONTRACTGALLUP, N.M. - Striking United Mine Worke

The U.S. dollar rose sharply Thursday, extending a rally that started during European trading.

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

Toyo Engineering Corp. of Japan won the contract to build the naphtha cracker of a new, integrated p

The National Bank of Poland announced Thursday the zloty will be partially floated against Western c

Several U.S. congressmen are joining six domestic U.S. apparel makers in opposing a federal inter-ag

More than 100 miners are feared to have been killed in one of South Africa's biggest gold mines when

A bipartisan group of angry lawmakers swore Thursday they will bring legislation to the House floor