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ROTTERDAM FUTURES START OFF SLOWLYROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Trading got off to a slow start T

John Andolina walked into the Port of Albany 16 years ago and began unloading banana boats.

Two small barge lines in the U.S.-Puerto Rico trade plan to merge into one company better suited for

Hong Kong's inbound shipments by sea in the second quarter of this year grew a bare 1 percent over t

The Supreme Court, in rejecting a challenge to Iowa's insurance insolvency law this week, bolstered

Insurance buyers have a right to be treated fairly. They have the right to prompt settlement of just

Insurance regulators increasingly are looking to parent firms for both additional funding and as pos

CME WINS APPROVAL ON LIBOR FUTURES PLANThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission Tuesday appr

A lawsuit alleges that the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to develop national standards

Two producers of high-density polyethylene raised prices 3 cents and 5 cents a pound in response to

A provision in the newly enacted second-crop disaster law gives U.S. Department of Agriculture Secre

World output of durum wheat should fall slightly this year from last because of reduced output in mo

Midwest grain farmers who survived the farm depression of the mid-1980s and the 1988 drought will ha

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., based in Wilmington, Del., said it is expanding nylon polymers capaci

10 PERCENT DECLINE REPORTED IN ARABIC GUM PRICESArabic gum prices fell about 10 percent over

Precious metal futures prices declined following a stronger U.S. dollar on foreign exchange markets

EXPORT NEWS HELPS BOOST PORK BELLIESPork belly futures settled up the 200-point daily tradin

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The European Commission decided Tuesday to begin working on details of a second package of food aid

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has fined clearing member firm Refco Inc.$75,000 for failing to comp

Proposed legislation requiring stricter trade reconstruction in the futures industry is expected to

Total cargo through the Port of Duluth- Superior so far this season, at 26.9 million metric tons, wa

Total and containerized cargo volumes moving through the Jacksonville (Fla.) Port Authority terminal

Contract talks between Boeing Co. and striking machinists resumed Monday but there was little chance

Shippers and freight carriers are on a collision course over a pair of proposals before the Federal

The European Commission last week imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on small color television

CAPITOL HILL OVERSIGHT OF POSTAL SERVICE SHIFTSOversight of the U.S. Postal Service on Capit

Small and medium-sized air freight forwarders face an array of big competitors, including the integr

Since its founding in 1980, Taiwan's science-based Hsinchu industrial park has attracted more than 1

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UK MAY NOT ATTEMPT TO BLOCK JAGUAR DEALThe British government Tuesday said it was prepared t

The U.S. dollar pushed higher Tuesday, as traders covered short positions to square their books for

When the 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley urged his eager young man to "Go West," he pro

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Ocean freight consolidators meeting in Long Beach at the weekend said provisions in the 1984 Shippin

Sembawang Shipyard Ltd., one of Singapore's go-getting shipbuilders and repairers, has taken deliver

The evidence is inescapable: Joint ventures in the Soviet Union involving foreign interests are boom

NORTHWEST SETTLES SUITS FROM '87 DETROIT CRASHNorthwest Airlines has reached settlements in

Rising incomes, industrialization and a dynamic political climate will create opportunities for U.S.

A whole new series of roadblocks will force California insurance companies to wait three months befo