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Brokers and insurers who don't adapt to the direct sales revolution face ableak future, indu

U.S. footwear exports are steadily rising even as imports take a growing share of the U.S. domestic

For the first time in four years, importers of shoes manufactured in Asia will be looking at signifi

Pennzoil Co., which is expected to post a loss in the first quarter, plans more layoffs and another

Saudi Arabia's finance minister said in an interview published Friday that rising demand for crude i

Russia started pumping gas through a northern pipeline on Friday, the day after a huge explosion rip

The Independent Petroleum Association of America brought its annual oil and gas investmentsymposium

A bid to force ethanol into the nation's automotive gasoline tanks ended Friday, when afederal appea

Friday Apr. 28, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Apr. 28, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

A 4.2 percent increase in foreign-trade tonnage moving across its docks in 1994 helped the Port of B

The nephew of a shipping magnate and an accomplice pleaded guilty to a scheme in which Americans bou

The Mouse is taking to the high seas. The same Walt Disney Co. "imagineers" who helped turn

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UK CLUB ACCEPTS PLAN TO CAP CONTRIBUTIONSLONDON - Proposals to cap shipowners' contr

The world's major oil companies, worried about the declining price of oil and rising cost of premium

The Klein Insurance Group and Pottinger & Co. have joined with Satellite Insurance Agency Alliance i

The trend toward early retirement in industrial countries has gone too far and will have serious lon

ACE LIMITED (Hamilton, Bermuda) - Patrick C. Mitchell was named senior vice president and underwrite

After keeping the spy ship USS Pueblo hidden from the rest of the world since capturing it 27 years

KEMPER CORP.'S NET FELL IN FIRST QUARTERLONG GROVE, Ill. - Kemper Corp. reported a d

A Seattle cargo-handling company has purchased Ryan-Walsh Inc., a 127-year- old stevedoring company

Japanese construction orders in March were up 3.2 percent from a year earlier at 3.148 trillion yen

When the dust settles from a last-minute scramble that by next month will yield some 500 contracts b

Cuba is contracting out its seamen to foreign shipping and fishing companies to help its hard curren

Lower costs, better productivity and "social peace" on the waterfront are contributing to strong tra

The Atlantic has become the dumping ground for poor-quality bulkships that have been driven from the

PORT OF HOUSTON TO GET LYKES' BOX OPERATIONHOUSTON - Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. will

Uncomfortably aware of heavily polluted cities in nearby nations, Vietnam has taken a significant st

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American President Lines and Matson Navigation Co. are forming a partnership on the Pacific, the com

Citing accidents in which truck wheels came off, causing two fatalities, Ontario is stepping up insp

Although Japanese trade officials have come to accept that the United States is prepared to move for

Paccar Inc., the Bellevue, Wash., truck manufacturer, while currently treading cautiously through th

U.S. firms manufacturing and assembling in Mexico's border region must soon choose between two types

CF MOTOR FREIGHT (Menlo Park, Calif.) - Thomas G. Deitrick and Barry J. Jacobs were promoted to nati

CHINA ALLOWS KOREAN AIR TO USE ITS AIRSPACESEOUL, South Korea - China has opened its airspac

Russia will need about 400 modern passenger planes by the year 2000 to replace outdated aircraft, bu

The slowing U.S. economy is making the rousing first-quarter financial performance by major U.S. rai