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''We're delighted. This came together in a far more concrete fashion than we had anticipated.''<

The stumble that Bill Daley took after being appointed President Clinton's next secretary of commerc

The European Union reached an uneasy compromise on rules to enforce budget discipline in its future

The European Union will open an official inquiry Wednesday into France's plans to inject cash into s

Kofi Annan, who heads U.N. peacekeeping operations, won the unanimous support of Security Council me

The U.S. dollar is expected to move a bit higher initially this week.Currency traders may be

The World Trade Organization concluded its first high-level meeting Friday after dodging a few bulle

Inclusion of labor standards in the final declaration of the World Trade Organization was ''a real v

In many ways, Asia is the ideal electronic marketplace.It has hundreds of millions of potent

TENNECO UNIT BUYSARGENTINE MANUFACTURERDEERFIELD, Ill. Tenneco Automotive, a unit of Tenneco

Walt Disney Co. and a video distributor were ordered Friday to make a down-payment of 100,000 francs

Brazil unveiled plans to dismantle state telecommunications company Telebras, Latin America's larges

In Cheddi Jagan's perfect world, the U.S. Congress would trim defense spending by 3 percent and impo

European leaders may be busy these days haggling over the future of their planned single currency, t

Colombia said Friday that it had sent an important message to the United States and international co

SHIPSCANADA'S VANCOUVERPOSTS STRONG 3RD QUARTERVANCOUVER, British Columbia - The por

Guatemala's president vows his administration is cracking down on corruption, but steamship lines co

One of the biggest fallacies in port development is the old line that if you build it, they will com

This week provided some of the best of times for Newark International Airport's cargo business. But

Union and management on the Port of New York and New Jersey waterfront agreed Thursday to trim 17 pe

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. said Thursday it reached a deal with its banks to extend its current agree

NS EXTENDS CASH OFFERFOR CONRAIL STOCKNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. extended its $11

Tired of long delays and queuing for one of the fleet of three ferries carrying most of the road tra

SALVAGE CREW REFLOATSGROUNDED BARGEYAKUTAT, Alaska - A barge that grounded for several days

William Daley, a Chicago lawyer who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992, was expected

1490 (Dec. 12, 1996) Previous day - 1477The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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Further growth in the volume of seaborne coal trade this year will help offset modest declines in th

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The country's major airlines have gained the upper hand in the debate over aviation funding - and th

Greenpeace activists blocked a grain barge on the Rhine river Thursday, claiming it was illegally im

Negotiators sealed this week's high-tech free-trade deal with a little booze.Actually, quite

Germany piled up pressure on its reluctant European partners Thursday to accept rigid rules to contr

The third day of counting in the fiercely contested election for leadership of the Teamsters union s

Protesters staged three demonstrations in Europe Thursday against genetically engineered feed grains

PACCAR INC. PROPOSESONE-FOR-ONE STOCK SPLITBELLEVUE, Wash. - Heavy-duty truck maker Paccar I

Vietnam said on Thursday that a stack of foreign joint-venture projects would be approved in the com

Taiwan said Thursday it plans to give up its monopoly on making tobacco products and alcoholic drink

The National Transportation Safety Board laid the blame for February's runaway train derailment in t