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China believes making its currency convertible for ordinary transactions faces four ''not-too- diffi

BRITISH PORTSFEAR WORK STOPPAGELONDON - Britain's air and sea ports face travel chaos follow

INDONESIAN RIOTS LEAVEAT LEAST SIX DEADJAKARTA, Indonesia - At least six students have died

Chinese officials voiced shock on Friday at a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to delay loans

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IT HAS BEEN A LONG, tough climb, but the airline industry appears on the threshold of wiping out nea

With the award of contracts to two private telephone operators, the Sri Lankan government is moving

As finance minister and other delegates from 56 countries sit down Tuesday for the annual meeting of

As of Apr. 26, 1996Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

What does driving a race car have in common with handling air freight? ''You learn when you race to

The Clinton administration's policy of promoting exports to the former Soviet Union is colliding wit

An informal survey of insurance and courier executives foretells that air shippers will demand broad

The trucking industry is winning some changes it wants in federal safety ratings of carriers, a syst

While truckers nationwide struggle with rising diesel prices, the California Trucking Association ar

Those worried about a U.S. trade deficit with the Far East should try booking freight with an air ca

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

New England wool merchants were doing a brisk trade with Argentina and needed a bank to handle their

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

Let's get basic. The World Wide Web enables someone with a computer to receive a page of formatted t

1465 (Apr. 26, 1996) Previous day - 1462The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Mum will be many lips as rail shippers congregate in this Midwestern city for their annual meeting.<

Automakers, spurred in part by a drop in damage claims, are using the railroads more often these day

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It is said that if you want to understand what is happening today or are trying to decide what will

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Apr. 26, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

Sixteen months after the Mexican peso crisis erupted in December 1994, international investors cauti

Some of the nation's top bankers will be gathering in Tucson this week for the annual meeting of the

Chase Manhattan Corp.'s merger with Chemical Banking Corp. created the largest bank in the United St

Some time before dawn tomorrow, a DC-8 will move away from the loading dock at Emery Worldwide's Day

Multistate regional banks are joining the big fish from New York and other money centers in the expa

It was billed as the clash of the titans - the country's fourth-largest airline against one of the b

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Higher values for crude oil, low inventories and summer stock building have conspired to drive U.S.

When southern air freight forwarders and cargo carriers look at opportunity in 1996, the sun may as

When Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman drove to Las Vegas in the movie ''Rain Man'' they were part of a

The spread between air freight rates and less-than-truckload rates has always been huge. But that wa

There has not been this much hoopla in American railroading since a couple of spikes were put down a

A recent spate of accidents notwithstanding, railroading is still among the safest of transportation

As trucking companies attempt to offset recent fuel increases through surcharges, shippers are casti