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London's freight futures market, still struggling after six years to attain reasonable trading volum

Federal Express Corp. said its September traffic rose 8 percent to 28.4 million packages and documen

President Bush Friday postponed for 90 days a decision on whether to impose trade sanctions on Taiwa

The chairmen of two big air freight forwarders accuse Federal Express Corp. of trying to steal their

Big Steel won big and a patchwork "union" of independent truckers whose livelihood is tied to large

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago10/18 10/17 Change % Change: 9/24

Maritime and insurance specialists are narrowing the reasons why dry bulk carriers keep sinking at s

Oct. 18, 1991 RESELLER Rack_Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded

CONNECTICUT MUTUAL RATING AFFIRMEDStandard & Poor's Corp. affirmed Connecticut Mutual Life I

Japanese petrochemical companies are likely to buy far fewer naphtha cargoes for December delivery i

The theme of this year's meeting of the Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters is t

The key to job survival in the Great Lakes lies in new investments in container shipping and job ret

Investor confidence in Taiwan could be rattled in the coming weeks as the government tries to defuse

Kenny Schaffer has solved the gnawing question of how to conduct reliable daily business communicati

Oct. 18, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Textile products imported into the United States during the first eight months of 1991 were up 1.3 p

Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said Friday that the United States should be seeking investment and

The Department of Transportation gave final approval Friday to the transfer of most of Pan American

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

Oct. 18, 1991 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Oct. 18, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Rail traffic in leading bulk products dipped during the first eight months of this year, but the out

The U.S. International Trade Commission is close to ruling on four dumping cases, ranging across tun

International traders hoping to see an early resolution of the trilateral North American free-trade

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

Victor V. Geraschenko, chairman of the State Bank of the U.S.S.R., was in Taiwan at the weekend to d

It could have been the great conversation that kept people indoors at a conference here last week. O

A coalition consisting of the auto industry and its labor force, backed by some consumer groups, cal

Brazilian soybean plantings, to nearly everyone's surprise, will begin this year in the second half

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Final touches are being put on the study for container Terminal 9, even before construction begins o

A $5 million hiccup could throttle a multibillion-dollar plan to build a European container hub port

Ho June Lee, a quiet 37-year-old from South Korea, started something of a trend when he set up his g

Oct. 18, 1991 Copper Total, 22,090. Gold Total, .1,309,371.Silver Tot

1639 (Oct. 18, 1991) Previous day - 1634 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

New York Mercantile Exchange Oct. 17, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The fragile truce between factions of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association appears to be brea

The Baltic and International Maritime Council has protested to the Sierre Leone high commission in L

The Supreme Court agreed last week to decide the breadth of the state action doctrine, which immuniz

In Rhode Island last year, more than 2,500 employers marched to the state capitol building bearing b