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Coffee futures pushed higher again on speculative buying after Monday's retreat. Cocoa futures held

There's good news and bad news for insurers, crews, their carriers and customers in the battle again

Change (adjusted) Aug. July Food +0.3% UnchHousing +0.3% Un

California legislators approved a revised version of the state's unitary tax law, in hopes of appeas

Shanghai Chlor Alkali has been given informal approval to issue American Depository Receipts, a comp

Sir Leon Brittan, the European Community's chief trade negotiator, said Tuesday that he is "quite su

Both Mexico and the United States are expected to benefit from the North American free-trade agreeme

Russia plans a massive $12.5 billion shipbuilding program to upgrade its decaying merchant fleet.

Sept. 14, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

MATSON WINS CONTRACT AT SUGAR REFINING PLANTSAN FRANCISCO - Matson Terminals Inc. wa

South Carolina may have something other sites contending for a Mercedes-Benz U.S. manufacturing plan

Globalization will spark a surge in aluminum can-sheet demand by the year 2000, with European consum

The tension between hull insurers and vessel operators has changed little since the first underwrite

Lloyd's of London will change its current three-year accounting system to two years, with an eye tow

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A Miami financial group is the first foreign company to take advantage of Argentina's move to open u

Economic officers at Latin American embassies in Washington follow the North American free-trade agr

Shippers moving cargo between the United States and Europe are upset about what they say is an effor

Retail sales posted a fifth straight monthly rise in August as more new cars moved off dealer lots,

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

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Bath Iron Works and competing ship yards will hear on Friday who won six of 12 Navy contracts after

Top executives for Montana's largest health insurance company earn a total of almost $1 million a ye

Addressing the Greater Richmond Chapter of the Society of Chartered Property- Casualty Underwriters,

Falling gasoline prices may soothe the sting of the 4.3-cent-a-gallon federal tax when it goes into

Belgium, the current president of the European Community, Tuesday played down hopes of brokering an

A former high-ranking executive at Amerford International Corp., accused by authorities of being a m

As contract talks began with union officials representing railway shop workers, Paul Tellier, CN Nor

COLUMBUS LINE (Jersey City, N.J.) - Mary Campolongo was named customer service administrator for Col

W.R. Grace & Co. plans to take a charge of $300 million in the third quarterbecause of a red

COLUMBIA COASTAL TRANSPORT INC. (Newark, N.J.) - Edward Murray was named port manager in the company

Freight is being bought by Thursday for a total of 4,999 metric tons of U.S. frozen, unsalted butter

Container traffic at the nation's second busiest containerport was up slightly for the recently ende

Some 150 shippers, carriers, freight forwarders, customs and government officials from the United St

The U.S. international payments deficit rose in the April-June period to $26.9 billion, the highest

Tuesday Sept. 14, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Metallgesellschaft Corp. and Methanex Corp., the world's largest independent methanol producer and m

Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russia's prime minister, and Nursultan Nazarbaev, president of Kazakhstan, have

The fight over CN North America's plan to build the first double-stack rail tunnel linking U.S. and