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Friday Sept. 2, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Three Weeks Ended Aug. 27, 1994, vs. Similar 1993 Period Cars CarsLoaded LoadedC

Competition from ports to the south is putting the squeeze on longshoremen handling breakbulk cargo

1442 (Sep. 2, 1994) Previous day - 1435 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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

The war of words between the United States and Canada over ship tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway con

Businessmen and policy makers in Finland, Sweden and Norway are all betting on ''yes" votes when the

"I can confirm Pakistan possesses the atomic bomb."

Large and small West Coast ports, particularly ports in the Pacific Northwest, are coping with the s

Georgia started rationing electricity Friday because of severe energy shortages. Georgian le

Australian food group Burns Philp & Co., savoring the taste of record earnings, is focusing on core

New York Mercantile Exchange - Sep. 2, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High L

Shipping lines and port interests are telling the Environmental Protection Agency that the federal p

Shareholders of Mark VII Inc. will vote Sept. 22 on a proposal to sell the company's motor-carrier s

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