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Cargo carriers in Mexico experienced uneven effects this year from a slowdown in the export boom tri

RUSSIAN WORKERS STRIKEAT 2 NUCLEAR PLANTSMOSCOW - Workers at two nuclear plants in western R

Europe's planned single currency is about to deliver a hammer blow to Germany's heavily subsidized c

Peso devaluation, a sharp economic downturn and a credit crunch have hobbled the capacity of Mexican

The shape of things to come in the U.S. power industry was brought into sharper focus at a meeting h

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After two months of study, the Clinton administration has denied a request for information on sales

The U.S. dollar fell against the Deutsche mark Monday and rose against the Japanese yen.The

Monday, Oct. 21, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Oct. 16, 1996 as supplied by the bunker fuel d

1176 (Oct. 21, 1996) Previous day - 1145The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Oct. 21, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateCchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 27, '95 - Oct. 21, '96 (a graph)* A

EASTMAN CHEMICAL MAYJOIN CHINA PLANT VENTUREKINGSPORT, Tenn. - Eastman Chemical Co. said Fri

New government guidelines have been issued to attract private investment to India's choked ports.

Imagine being able to retrieve and edit shipping manifests stored on a mainframe computer using Wind

The controversy over Mexico's sudden reversal of plans to privatize 61 secondary petrochemical plant

Japan's NEC Corp. said Monday that a slide in computer memory chip prices had come to a halt, but to

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,300-$1,500 per ton lo

AIRGERMANY TOP AIR FREIGHTEXPORTER IN WORLD IN '95MARIETTA, Ga. - Germany was the wo

With Japan's Liberal Democratic Party more firmly in power after Sunday's general elections, prospec

After months of debate and study, France is finally going to sell off its national ship line.

For Gilberto Vasquez and his son Felipe, the pending sale of Mexico's state railroad Ferrocarriles N

Proposed ocean freight rate hikes on the Atlantic are setting off no alarms, apparently because many

Norasia Lines is transforming the traditional relationship between shipping line and agent by giving

Labor Secretary Robert Reich revived the issue of child labor in the garment industry Monday with a

TWRA EXTENDS RATESFOR COTTON TO DEC. 31SAN FRANCISCO - The Transpacific Westbound Rate Agree

Railroads were in the news in a big way last week. No wonder, then, that they were the sector with t

Daniel G. Cleary, 54, former vice president of operations and general manager for freight for the Lo

MEXICO, BUS GROUPSSIGN ANTI-CRIME PACTMEXICO CITY - Mexico's federal prosecutor and the coun

Maritime unions have given huge sums to political candidates in this election season, contributing f

Schneider National Inc., North America's largest truckload carrier, is adding regional hauler Direct

DHL AIRWAYS INC.Victor Guinasso was named president of DHL's domestic operations. He was exe

The days of longshoremen balancing on a ladder while they check the controls of refrigerated contain

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELDAGREES TO SETTLEMENTDENVER - Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico agre

After some embarrassing and expensive flops, China said Monday it has successfully put a locally mad

SALES THROUGH BANKSPOWER WESTERN NATIONALHOUSTON - Western National Corp. saw its third-quar

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.Richard A. Strait was promoted to vice president in th