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The American Trucking Associations, looking to end the bickering over state truck tax-stamp programs

Insurance regulators approved three new categories of auto insurance discounts that insurance compan

China voiced opposition Monday to an upcoming visit to Taiwan by U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hil

The Treasury Department fired back Monday at two House subcommittee chairmen who accused senior Trea

President-elect Bill Clinton's reiteration of the need to pressure China on human rights drew an unu

Buenos Aires supermarkets and mom-and-pop shops are overflowing with food products that never appear

Textile Quotas to Watch as of Nov. 21, 1992* Country Category Description

STRIKE VOTE TO BE HELD AT FORD UNIT IN UKSenior shop stewards from Ford U.K. car plants Mond

For the week ended Nov. 14, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Experts attending a symposium on the 1983 downing of South Korean airliner KAL-007 by a Soviet jet f

Copper prices are likely to move lower next year, a report by a leading metals analyst said.

After a decade of economic decline and mounting deficits, disgruntled constituents cleaned house thi

Taiwan's huge Formosa Plastics Group has scrapped a plan to build an ethylene plant in Xiamen, China

Monsanto Co.'s decision to eliminate 3,200 jobs, about 8 percent of its work force, is its response

An agreement to speed up the phasing out of ozone-damaging gases such as chlorofluorocarbons is expe

Just months after the end of a bitter and prolonged battle to close a $14 billion deficit that invol

The American Bureau of Shipping and the Shipping Corp. of India Ltd. have settled their 8-year-old l

As of Nov. 23, 1992 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Claiming improper repair procedures at a Bahrain shipyard caused a fatal Gulf War accident aboard a

The Vancouver Port Corp. next week will ask the Canadian federal government for permission to build

Property and casualty insurers already have been slammed with more than $16.4 billion in catastrophi

Add the name of Anderson Trucking Service Inc. to the list of truckload carriers embracing intermoda

Longer-term export credit insurance will be offered to Chinese firms for the first time beginning ne

China's aviation industry is seeking more links with foreign companies to improve service on domesti

Growth in second-day air and next-afternoon delivery may be cutting into the bottom line of some ove

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1263 (Nov. 20, 1992) Previous day - 1248 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

In a victory for terminal operators and car handlers, the Port of Los Angeles has backed away from s

Here's a hypothetical example of the maritime transportation rate practice known as unbundling:<

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

Nov. 20, 1992 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

MARK RUGE WILL LEAVE HOUSE MARITIME PANELMark Ruge, deputy staff director of the House Merch

Friday, Nov. 20, 1992 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Capital spending plans by Japanese corporations for this fiscal year have been cut sharply and are 3

The huge coal terminal at Roberts Bank in British Columbia will go through some of the most difficul

The executive director of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, W. Don Welch, is due to address

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

The story "Box Lines Expand in Mideast Despite Slow Recovery," which appeared on Page 1A Nov. 18, in

An international banking regulatory body is necessary, Martin Kohlhaussen, Commerzbank chairman, sai