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Mar. 15, 1996Baltic International Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High Low

When a roll-on, roll-off ship filled with 5,000 autos worth $25,000 each arrives in port, the motto

The Indian government assured U.S. business leaders that it will revamp its procedures for privatiza

With the backing of the Canadian government, Canadian Airlines International and its partner, Americ

OOCL BEGINS ROUTEFROM JAPAN TO MALAYSIAHONG KONG - Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. has i

Shippers of truck and ocean freight through Philadelphia face days of long delays and high tolls aft

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 24 '95, - Mar. 14, '96 (a graph)(2)

The Clinton administration is ''looking forward to a very successful'' meeting next week toward adva

With a two-week perspective, overseas executives said they liked China's latest round of foreign exc

Thursday, March 14, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Representatives of the Teamsters union, meeting here Tuesday, announced plans for a publicity campai

The U.S. dollar followed bond prices higher Thursday, on news of an unexpected decline in February p

Norway's central bank cut its inflation forecast for 1996 to 1.25 percent from 2 percent previously.

Freightliner Corp. kept up a strong pace of deliveries in the heavy-truck industry in February as ma

Singapore's manufacturing output in January surged 25.8 percent from a year earlier, the Economic De

Germany's first-quarter gross domestic product is likely to fall a seasonally and calendar-adjusted

A report on shipping reform to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is drawing

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

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Mar. 14, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150 per ton lots

Mar. 14, 1996Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Trade leads supplied by:U.S. Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

New York Mercantile Exchange - Mar. 14, 1996Prev. Life of Contr. Open Open High Low

International Petroleum ExchangeMar. 14, 1996 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

TACOMA AWARDS FLETCHERCRANE RAIL CONTRACTTACOMA, Wash. - The Port of Tacoma awarded a $1.2 m

The 15,319-deadweight-ton Al Johffa, which sustained a cracked hull when it hit rocks on Feb. 13 whi

The state of California will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a recent state court decision invalida

The Hong Kong government plans to crack down harder on Chinese pirated products, said Denise Yue, Ho

A freight forwarding education program designed to promote professional competence and improve the i

INDIA TO LIFT CURBSON CONSUMER IMPORTSBOMBAY - India will remove all curbs on consum

Less developed countries, despite the Mexican financial crisis, last year attracted a record $167 bi

A coalition of foreign lamb suppliers and U.S. textile importers could be battling the U.S. governme

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Six decades of agriculture policy may have come to an end when Congress voted to overhaul farm subsi

The European Commission wants to improve the competitiveness of Europe's shipping and maritime indus

More than a century after a German immigrant first brewed it in St. Louis, the world's top-selling b

The Iron Highway - CSX Corp.'s effort to crack potentially lucrative short-haul intermodal markets -

Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), Mexico's largest steamship line, has again teamed up with St