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The river Port of New Orleans, marking its 100th anniversary this year, is bursting at the seams aft

Aviation experts are getting a rising sense of deja vu as Congress and the White House scramble to r

Friday, Aug. 2, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

GATX PARTNERSHIPSORDER 23 BOEING JETSSEATTLE - Partnerships formed by GATX Capital Corp. hav

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

The U.S. dollar won't be getting a lift from interest rates in August, but it will rally back to 1.5

For the week ended July 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Aug. 11, '95 - Aug. 2, '96 (a graph)* An

Congress moved late Friday to revive a long-dormant program providing duty-free entry on thousands o

Willy Morgan, publisher of The Economist in North America, has been named publisher of The Journal o

The concept of ''degrees of separation'' suggests that each of us is separated from everyone else by

Boeing Co. is planning to remove hundreds of jobs from the machinists union's bargaining unit withou

A new worldwide drive against the production of counterfeit goods was launched in London last week b

JAPANESE BANKS MAKEINROADS IN MYANMARTOKYO - Major Japanese banks have moved to strengthen t

House Ways and Means trade subcommittee chairman Philip Crane, R-Ill., and other representatives pla

''The World Trade Center blast was just the exclamation point at the end of the sentence.''

Quincy Mayor James Sheets says this suburb's shipyard could receive approximately $5 million for mod

Three weeks ended July 27, 1996, vs. similar 1995 periodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

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Guy Martin, who manages one of Jamaica's leading apparel exporting companies, has more than garments

MITSUI OPENS OFFICEIN NEW JERSEYTOKYO - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. has opened a tanker safety

1062 (Aug. 2, 1996) Previous day - 1062The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

SONY, PHILIPS TO LICENSEDVD PATENTS TO OTHERSTOKYO - Sony Corp. said it has agreed with Phil

GLOSSARYAR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Aug. 2, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

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The European Commission's image and authority have been seriously undermined in recent weeks and the

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

As exports continue to sag, economists are revising downward projections of Hong Kong's growth this

JAPANESE TRADING FIRMSORDER 22 BOEING JETSTOKYO - Two Japanese trading companies have ordere

ALCATEL-MARUBENI CORP.FranceAmount of contract: $21,780,369.Contract description: Re

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100%) is as follows

American Airlines and Canadian Airlines International agreed to an alliance of their cargo operation

MINSK RESIDENTS PROTESTMCDONALD'S OPENINGMINSK, Belarus - Residents of a district in Minsk,

Illinois Central Railroad has signed a marketing agreement with Burlington Northern Santa Fe for int

When the world's top ocean carriers began introducing much bigger containerships into their main ser

In its first flexing of legal muscle, a trinational environmental agency established under the North

Scania AB's pretax profit for the first half of the year dropped 25 percent, reflecting the stronger

$60 MILLION MORE CREDITALLOCATED FOR TURKEYWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture a

Despite tensions with Europe, the White House said Friday President Clinton will sign a bill today i