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While growing trade with Mexico has brought increasing traffic for U.S. railroads that connect with

Trucking across the U.S.-Mexico border will likely remain unchanged throughout 1994, as U.S. motor c

In the late 1960s, attempts were made to forge a Latin American Free-Trade Agreement, or Lafta.<

The House Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican has called for hearings on a new plan to reform t

One of the Philippines' feisty companies battling to upgrade the country's inadequate telecommunicat

Emerging from civil war, debt and the lost decade of the 1980s, Central and South American nations h

A slump in new ordering activity continues to push down the price of supertankers. The cost

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America's railroads, slowed by winter storms in January, have returned to the fast track with carloa

The Australian government's leading indicator of employment rose in January, the Department of Emplo

Hijackings and cargo thefts are becoming so commonplace that motor carriers nationwide are developin

As of Mar. 9, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

The clerk behind the counter of McDonald's restaurant in Belgrade's Terazije Square was indignant. "

More than $80 million in nuclear waste containers could be built at Newport News Shipbuilding each y

Donald Trump, who owns casinos in Atlantic City, N.J., has signed an agreement to buy 23 acres of wa

Heavy truck sales continued to climb in February, posting their highest mark for the period in 15 ye

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES DROPS ADVERTISING FIRMGreenstone Roberts Advertising said Royal Cari

Inventories of U.S. wholesale merchants posted their biggest decline in nearly three years, falling

TRAIN BRIDGE COLLAPSES; 4 CARS FALL INTO RIVERLONE ROCK, Wis. - A Wisconsin River br

Air France will receive one last major cash handout from the French government as part of a far-reac

In a dramatic reversal of its previous policy, the Coast Guard is planning to issue separate safety

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

Transporte Internacional '94. March 10-12. International transportation symposium. MarriottRivercent

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

Air Russia, the joint-venture airline set up to develop international services via a Moscow hub, is

Mexico will not privatize its state-owned railroad Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico, but will spin

BOMBARDIER PLANS MODERNIZATION PROGRAMTORONTO - Bombardier has announced a C$168 mil

The pace of the U.K.'s Standard Chartered bank's expansion in China and India will depend on the pac

Technology experts in the Clinton administration thought they had pulled off a coup last December wh

RECYCLED CONVERTERS SEEN RISING IN EUROPEFRANKFURT, Germany - The volume of European used-ca

Mar. 9, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

An oversupply of oil products at oil refineries is forcing China to cut crude oil output and sharply

1115 (Mar. 9, 1994) Previous day - 1112 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

This is the biggest deep-water port in the Mediterranean, but its only regular user is a herd of cow

A maverick riverboat company last week began offering regularly scheduled loadings at Memphis of a c

Vessels entering and exiting New Jersey waters around New York harbor would be required to use state

The failure last December of Mexican Gulf Line, a small ship line set up to capture a share of the g

The French government Wednesday authorized the privatization of insurance giant Assurances Generales

The National Commission on Intermodal Transportation, whose start was delayed more than a year by fu

Twenty-two of Mexico's most significant ports are in the process of being privatized after legislati