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With their eyes set on the future and not on the dismal present, intermodal interests see opportunit

After years of development, CSX Intermodal is almost ready to test the Iron Highway project in comme

Truckers curtailed their use of intermodal service in 1995, and it will take some time for many of t

In a country where up to 80 percent of all freight moves by truck, all-water service to and from Mex

John D. Rathbun has a unique plan to deal with blizzards, floods and other demonstrations of nature'

Following several hefty capacity increases since their debut in 1984, the future size of double-stac

From port operators to shipping lines, the transportation industry is hot to move cold cargo.

Eliminating the Federal Maritime Commission could give intermodal operators new opportunities to exp

Reduced crews. Faster loading and unloading times. These are things any shipowner or operator would

From ocean shipping reform to entry of Mexican goods under the North American Free Trade Agreement,

With Amtrak's 25th anniversary comes the expiration in April of the operating agreements it has with

Air cargo carriers have always provided the quickest method of transporting goods, and shippers were

A Senate decision last year not to reopen the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act for e

Back when George Saunders was an officer aboard a Keystone Shipping Co. tanker, he used to see passi

Baltic Shipping Co., once one of the world's biggest ship lines, is close to collapse, raising the p

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Are American dentists, plastic surgeons and chiropractors about to invade the Canadian health-care m

Friday, March 22, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

In the 1990s, the thieves among us are interested less in diamonds, gold or even cocaine.Rat

Shippers pushing for changes to the proposed Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger may get some help

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Mar. 31 '95, - Mar. 22, '96 (a graph)(2)

After nudging interest rates downward in December and January, the Federal Reserve Board's Open Mark

The Port of Oakland, in a move that could speed up its next channel-deepening project by two to thre

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

GLOBAL OCEAN SEES RISEIN OPERATING REVENUEPIRAEUS - Global Ocean Carriers Ltd. recently anno

Germany's building industry, which boomed for five years after unification, is poised to shrink by 1

The U.S. dollar will rise this week on expectations that Germany will cut its interest rates before

The European Commission, acting as the EU's merger authority, has cleared the acquisition of the wor

Taiwan's principal port isn't letting political tensions get in the way of its dreams.A new

The European Commission on Friday announced it was ready to approve the takeover by U.S. conglomerat

Its name may sound like ''hen's coop'' in Chinese, but the plans officials have for Taiwan's norther

A House International Relations subcommittee took the first step Friday toward congressional passage

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

The strike by the United Auto Workers union over outsourcing that slammed on the brakes at General M

An advisory panel to the minister of international trade and industry called Friday for repealing an

In a bid to attract more U.S. and other foreign investors, Haiti's new government plans a series of

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

The European Union is bracing itself for a potential collapse in its domestic and export beef market

France is threatening sanctions against U.S. carriers after the Department of Transportation refused

A Communist coup or gross miscalculation?The March 15 vote by Russia's State Duma, calling f