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Your cargo - say, an expensive piece of industrial machinery - was seriously damaged somewhere betwe

The government's revised encryption rules have arrived, and while many of the old restrictions are g

Your article on the recent decision by the California Superior Court concerning the tax status of ce

It's just past 9 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Bob Mulshine is talking lunch.The menu isn't importa

The merger of AOL and Time Warner may be grabbing headlines, but other high-profile mergers in recen

There's growing concern in the international financial community about the U.S. economy. If there wa

f nothing else, President Clinton is a compelling speaker and a masterly politician - two attributes

I hope that those who don't have much interest in Montreal and the North Atlantic trades will forgiv

Pessimists have found plenty of reasons in recent years to trash South Africa's economic prospects.<

What will become of Elian Gonzalez, the boy, now in Florida, who survived a boat accident that claim

The most frequently cited cause for the breakdown of the World Trade Organization's ministerial meet

Following the arrival of a largely Y2K-bug-free new year, there has been much public questioning abo

hese are days of dark uncertainty on the world trade scene, days that are both unsettled and unsettl

Prunes put off young people who think of them as an old person's laxative. So the Prune Council is t

apanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi apparently thinks there should be more to international summit m

SMART GROWTH OFFERSAMPLE OPPORTUNITIESTO HIGHWAY INDUSTRY''A place for smart growth

THE NEWS & OBSERVER(Raleigh, N.C.):In a speech to the U.N. Security Council, Jesse H

The world's export farmers recently got a terrific present for the 21st century: The 15-country Euro

The recent growth of international trade represents a key change in the world's economic system. Thi

It's an elegant form of highway robbery by an exporter cartel.Oil price increases from a low

Well, here we are with Windows 2000 bursting onto the scene as the linchpin of Microsoft's latest sa

It's certainly true that Japan has been less than eager to own up to barbaric behavior before and du

Children find it amusing to unknot balloons and let them deflate noisily, as the exiting air powers

Indians stormed Ecuador's empty congressional building last week, demanding the ouster of President

If a bettor were placing an early book wager on the proposed merger of Canadian National Railway Inc

Breaking with the past is even more important to many people as we enter a new millennium.Th

Two federal lawmakers from New Jersey demanded that the Army Corps of Engineers hold a hearing on a

MARAD'S NEW SURVEYGIVES COMPREHENSIVEPICTURE OF US FLEETThe Journal of Commerce's Ja

OK, road warriors, there's finally a gadget that will make your - or your secretary's - job easier.<

Because of an error in editing, the opinion article on Jan. 21 by Taichi Sakaiya, ''A change in temp

After every big marine disaster comes a set of rules aimed at ensuring that the calamity never happe

My initial reaction as a so-called ocean-shipping intermediary to your article of Dec. 28 (''Study:

Japan must abandon its obsession with conformity and equality if it is to deal with its growing soci

You thought it was brave bluffing or shameless self-promotion when you realized the actions and the

truckers' rebellion is spreading across Europe. It could have serious, long-term consequences for tr

Plans for a Japanese consortium to construct a Shinkansen, or ''bullet train,'' link between Taiwan'

December was a tragic month for Venezuela. The flooding that claimed thousands of lives was compound

There comes a time in this business of shipping journalism when the jitters set in.There's a

Within days of taking over from Boris Yeltsin, Russia's acting president, Vladimir Putin, gave the l

nd you thought computers had revolutionized your office.Some of the items on display at last