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It was pure irony.When Fruit of the Loom Inc. had a trailerload of $50,000 worth of its unde

Strength across all transportation sectors led the Journal of Commerce stock index to climb a health

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The track is now clear for construction of the controversial Tongue River Railroad to serve coal min

Roberto Salvarani has one driving ambition: ridding European waters of all substandard ships.

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer's comments that the ''dollar is on its way up'' sent the dollar

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Financial market analysts in Asia welcomed news on Tuesday that Japan planned to deregulate its fina

MEXICAN OFFICIALS LISTQUALIFYING RAIL BIDDERSMEXICO CITY - Mexican transport officials liste

FOUR CASPIAN STATESSIGN AGREEMENTFour of the five Caspian Sea coastal states signed an agree

The United States must maintain open markets and resist pressures at home to take unilateral trade m

Citing a controversial U.S. trade law, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolutio

Manufacturers and distributors have flocked to establish Mexican operations in recent years. But som

SHIPSUK PRESSES AHEADON MARITIME SAFETYLONDON - More than half the recommendations o

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collided in midair near New Delhi Tuesday with a Russian built T

With an eye toward a dominating presence in Latin America, Mexico's largest steamship line, Transpor

SABRE DECISION ACQUIRESCONSULTING GROUPDALLAS - Sabre Decision Technologies said it is acqui

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Although the domestic airline industry recovered from losses of $13 billion in the 1990s to reach ne

USAir executives said Tuesday they plan to expand the airline's international markets and change its

1515 (Nov. 12, 1996) Previous day - 1502The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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Efforts to forge a global deal on the liberalization of basic telecommunications services received a

VALUJET REPORTS LOSSFOR THIRD QUARTERATLANTA - ValuJet Airlines Tuesday reported a $21.9 mil

CP SHIPSIan Webber was named chief financial officer. He joins this container shipping divis

While recent joint-venture purchases of low-sulfur Western coal reserves by ARCO Coal Co. of Denver

REGIONAL BLOCSIntegration of the Americas - Trade and The Future for Midwest Business. Nov.

It looks challenging.Plow a 750-foot tanker into one of the world's largest and best-known a

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon invited Argentina Tuesday to be Mexico's main ally i

With last month's oil spill in San Francisco Bay now almost entirely cleaned up, attention is once a

THAI SHIP GROUP, COSCOSIGN SERVICE CONTRACTSBANGKOK - The Thai National Shippers' Council si

FRANCE'S AXA AND UAPTO MERGE IN THE SPRINGPARIS - The French insurance companies AXA and UAP

Which side are you on?That will be one of the most asked questions in Congress next year as

France said it hoped to raise 25 billion francs ($4.91 billion) from the sale next April of a minori

The Insurance Services Office Inc., recognizing that the reinsurance sector is demanding increasingl

The usual perception is that Western Europeans work bankers' hours while Americans spend much more t