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GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

UK PORTS FACE ANIMAL-RIGHTS PROTESTSLONDON - Dover, Britain's busiest ferry port, fa

PORT OF FREEPORT (Freeport, Texas) - David McNeel was named director of operations. Most recently Mr

The United States is under pressure from leading ship inspection organizations to release details ab

Canada's west coast ports could boost their grain throughput by 20 percent if a "just-in-time" syste

The Hong Kong agent of the 3,518-deadweight-ton Hai You, which sank after a collision with the 6,829

The Journal of Commerce is not just read by its subscribers - they use it as a working tool. A tool

In the 1960s and 1970s, Greenville was known as the "towboat capital of the world." And in s

GDYNIA AMERICA LINE (South Plainfield, N.J.) - This North American agent for Polish Ocean Lines name

Channel-dredging reforms approved by a key House committee just before the Easter recess "go a long

U.S. Customs officials have pledged to end tailgate exams in ports outside New York in response to N

If the U.K. insurance market had a checkup, the prognosis would show a healthy patient, a British ci

Steven M. Gluckstern, chairman, president and chief executive of Zurich Reinsurance Centre Holdings

CHUBB GROUP OF INSURANCE COS. (Warren, N.J.) - Charles Luchs and John Cavoores became chief underwri

MOODY'S REVIEWING 3 JAPANESE INSURERSMoody's Investors Service last week placed the "Aa2" in

Too many competitors and too few returns on investment over the last six years have spurred a shakeo

Deregulation by the U.S. federal government and states has meant convulsive change for the transport

In 1954, years before many of the major news weeklies and other publications in the United States ex

The bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, forced The Journal of Commerce staff to walk

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U.S. manufacturers are working to establish a presence in China - potentially the world's largest ma

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

The U.S. maritime industry, which is struggling through one of its toughest and most divisive legisl

After losing most of their industry's long-haul business to rail, the nation's unionized auto hauler

Southern Pacific Lines, the last major railroad standing in the way of the proposed Burlington North

The Dutch shipping and transport company Royal Nedlloyd Group NV returned to the black last year aft

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, April 18, '94 - April 14, '95 (a graph)

The struggling Port Royal now is without a company to run its operations, which will be taken over b

Bond and currency markets have taken in stride the news that Moody's Investors Service has downgrade

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

Friday, April 14, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

A special supplement to the March 30 edition of The Journal of Commerce carried a version of a story

The U.S. dollar is expected to come under renewed pressure against the yen when the currency markets

China on Friday began a drive to purge state agencies of illegally copied software, tackling an emba

Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso may well feel nervous about his first official journey

"I have already said, and I again repeat, that the fate of the dollar in Russia is very poor. I woul

Strong international and domestic demand for U.S. grain triggered 19 percent growth in March rail tr

A national standardization plan is expected by month's end in Mexico that would clear the way for ac