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Sep. 2, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Scott Shepherd was bothered by the unfairness of it all. Small and medium-sized Canadian com

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

The United States, the European Union, and Japan have a primary responsibility to act in a timely wa

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES TO EXPAND TERMINALSAN FRANCISCO - American President Lines

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

An elderly man died and more than 400 other passengers were stricken Thursday when a mysterious inte

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

The Gulf's maritime community is alarmed by a Coast Guard plan to consolidate the 14 offices that pr

Last winter, a Lexus owned by a Los Gatos, Calif., man began an arduous journey from its home in a l

After the big automobile manufacturers, it's now the turn of component producers to take a serious l

DENVER, UNITED AGREE TO MODIFY BAG SYSTEMDENVER - Denver and United Airlines have re

Conoco is acquiring new interests in offshore properties in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, un

Cooper Power Systems said it will close its Pittsburgh headquarters and move about 60 administrative

Ethanol advocates and others are taking aim at MTBE, a widely used gasoline oxygenate additive made

Natural gas and coal price increases - like the ones that occurred over the past two years are short

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +18.778/29 107.08/30 106.78/

South Korea's industrial production fell 4.5 percent in July from the previous month, but grew 0.7 p

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Nearly half a century after launching an unprecedented assault on runaway population growth, India b

Kennecott Corp., the nation's fourth-largest copper producer, is pushing up refined copper prices an

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 232.60 up 0.72 w

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

In dollar terms, Japan's January-June trade surplus reached $60.6 billion this year, up from $57.9 b

Swiss real gross domestic product fell 0.9 percent in 1993 compared to a provisional figure of down

UK REGULATOR SUSPENDS BRITISH GAS DISCOUNT BANLONDON - Ofgas, the U.K. gas industry

The world's largest coal exporter, Australia, will see its share of sales to the lucrative South Kor

The controversial proposal to build a 10.4 billion deutsche mark ($6.5 billion) magnetic rail passen

Hoping to take the guesswork out of illegible hand-written destination labels, Emery Worldwide is eq

Major container shipping lines sailing from Japan to Europe will try to push through a rate increase

FLEET LINES TO BEGIN PERSIAN GULF SERVICEAVENEL, N.J. - Fleet Lines, an off-dock con

Minnesota companies are exporting more manufactured goods to Japan this year since the yen began str

Some 300 workers at Port of New York and New Jersey facilities where imported Toyota and Nissan cars

Strong if uneven growth in China's economy is spurring significant changes in the way its people spe

The average U.S. port director's salary this year is $96,182, up from $91,890 in 1993, the American

The so-called J-curve effect will likely be a major factor raising Japan's current-account surplus a

The story headlined "Antitrust Repeal Amendment Added to Health Care Bill," which appeared Aug. 3 on

As of Sept. 2, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

The International Chemical Workers Union has chosen sides in a labor stalemate between Bridgestone/F

Ira Shapiro has used a combination of honesty, political acumen and disarming humor to build a reput