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High-level U.S. officials here believe Canada is threatening to torpedo the already troubled agricul

Mention electronic data interchange and the former Soviet Union in the same sentence to a forwarder

COMSAT LINKS 100 JETS WITH GROUND FACILITIESA total of 100 commercial aircraft now can commu

Intermodal Association of North America. First annual meeting. Feb. 24-27. Peabody Hotel, Orlando, F

Currency traders predict the U.S. dollar will rise sharply on signs of economic recovery at home and

Minebea Co., the Japanese company that is the subject of a U.S. Customs Service probe of fraudulent

The unexpected creation of a united congressional front in Brazil could strengthen support for gover

REGIONAL BLOCS Business Opportunities in Indonesia. Feb. 24. Los Angeles. Indonesia's Trade,

A Senate trade subcommittee chairman proposed temporary limits on sales of Japanese autos in the Uni

The Virginia Port Authority would rather keep its low rates for cargo handling than join a rate agre

Investigators looking into the death of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell have concluded that he m

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1247 (Feb. 21, 1992) Previous day - 1260 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

A new reefer shipping joint venture, supported by a number of lines from the former Soviet Union, is

Total 1992 grain production in the former Soviet Union is projected to reach a net weight of 203.5 m

Six years after the U.S. Customs Service began an investigation of Japan's Minebea Co., and two year

As Morrison Knudsen Corp. outlined plans last week to turn an abandoned plant on the city's south si

Colombia will press the United States to support a new world coffee pact during a drug summit this w

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A Dallas-based company said reefer owners can stop worrying about ozone- depleting refrigerants and

Feb. 21, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

The Japanese wholesale price index for Feb. 1-10 averaged 89.6 (1985=100), up 0.2 percent from Jan.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded a $20.8 million contract last week for the con

ARGENTINE AIRLINE STOPS FLIGHTS TO PERUBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine airlin

While programs to establish electronic links with customers have not always lived up to expectations

Transportation companies are increasingly linking their computers to telephone lines to transmit and

The recent arrest of a Mexican labor leader was the result of a Mexican crackdown on tax evasion and

Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Bombay plans to allow private companies to set up and manage two additional

The head of the powerful German metalworkers union proposed a complicated formula to save eastern Ge

Forwarders who operate in New England are desperately looking for opportunities in a depressed marke

Despite its role as an industrial center, Belarus faces the loss of its traditional trade status in

American President Lines Ltd., one of two shipping lines that left the Intermodal Container Transfer

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World coffee prices are the cheapest since 1975, costing poor nations billions of dollars in lost ea

The International Finance Corp., an affiliate of the World Bank, said it would invest about $6.5 mil

Although it is still too early to make any firm forecasts, Brazil's 1992 (May-to-September) midyear

Increases in housing, food and transportation pushed Canadian consumer prices up 0.5 percent in Janu