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Suggestions that the United States has given Thailand a further grace period to enforce protection o

One of the best ways for risk managers to trim workers compensation costs is to do business with ins

Apr. 28, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Hapag-Lloyd AG's net profit was almost halved last year to 34.5 million deutsche marks ($21.7 millio

1993 SAE International Congress and Exhibition. May 1-5. Cobo Center, Detroit. Annual meeting. Conta

Japanese exporters are taking several steps to counter the negative effects of the strong yen, inclu

Growing frustration with truck-rail interchange agreements is sparking multiple efforts to revise th

The city of Nashville's unprecedented plan to pay USAir Group for one of its international routes ha

A request from the Civil Aviation Administration of China prompted Evergreen International Airlines

* U.N. authorities "halt or otherwise control all shipping" to, from or through Bosnia and Herzegovi

The European Community Commission on Wednesday called for the EC's protected $120 billion-a-year tel

Although this Old South river city is best known for the faded grandeur of its antebellum mansions,

Risk managers can expect more legislation affecting human resources and employee benefits thanks to

Bergen Brunswig Corp., in its first attempt to crack the overseas drug market, has joined with a Fre

Union Carbide Corp. earned $40 million, or 28 cents a share, during the first quarter. The c

Phillips Petroleum Co. said that it will begin commercial production this week of linear low-density

The New York Mercantile Exchange's proposal to acquire the Commodity Exchange Inc. includes a $10 mi

It's happened again: Another deal come and gone at American President Lines. The latest one

Bahia Blanca, an Argentine port handling about 20 percent of the country's grain exports, should be

The International Chamber of Shipping launched a new code of practice for the shipping industry Wedn

Some senior officials from both industrialized and developing nations fear a move by the Clinton adm

With profits down and sales off, the mood at Boeing Co.'s annual meeting on Monday was subdued this

Wednesday, April 28, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

China, struggling with a huge labor surplus, has issued a law making state enterprises responsible f

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgExp

China's flag-carrier on ocean trades is expanding its business in the South Pacific as trade appears

With the recorded sound of exploding firecrackers in the background, a Taiwanese trade council opene

Wichita businessman Phil Ruffin has agreed to sell his Town and Country chain of 63 convenience stor

Russian crude production will fall to 2.5 billion barrels this year, or 7 million barrels a day, fro

MITTERCON INTERNATIONAL INC. (New Orleans) - This diversified freight consolidator and transport com

The new chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission said Wednesday that a lack of broad congressiona

How does a risk manager balance the demands of keeping a company's insurance costs down and complyin

Conference carriers still have not agreed on a formula to price service contracts for auto parts and

Fueled by a nearly 20 percent drop in Sea-Land Service Inc. traffic, Port of Long Beach statistics s

The Clinton administration has found a technical fix to avoid having to make hundreds of millions of

United Parcel Service is facing a class-action suit from 150,000 California shippers who charge the

The 1993 edition of "Drop Shipping Source Directory of Major Consumer Product Lines" is now availabl

Friedman's Express Inc. started in 1910 with a horse and wagon owned by Simon Friedman, a Russian im

Six Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee have asked its chairman, Rep. Dan Roste

The Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday listed 16 nations as trade offenders and urged tough U.S. governm