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House members, lagging behind their Senate counterparts, accelerated their efforts last week to put

Environmental groups accused the Clinton administration of caving in to port authorities in proposin

Marsh & McLennan Inc., one of the major U.S. insurance brokers, has opened a representative office i

The board of directors of Zenith National Insurance Corp. said that it has authorized the repurchase

Stung by defections of some of its biggest customers, the U.S. Postal Service is changing classifica

Friday, March 8, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The government will buy Alaskan pink salmon for school lunches and other food aid in an effort to bo

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

Oil terminals in the Middle East are among some of the worst in the world for providing tankers with

Commerce trade investigators in Mexico have taken final action against Dutch starch exporters, leavi

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

The U.S. dollar will rise this week, and may hit a high for the year against the Deutsche mark, curr

The Bank of England cut interest rates by a quarter point Friday, indicating that Britain is less wo

Economic growth averaging more than 5 percent over the next 20 years in India is expected to spawn m

For the week ended March 2, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Heavy truck sales slipped and slid along with the economy in February as manufacturers had to rely o

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Three Weeks Ended March 2, 1996, vs. Similar 1995 PeriodCars Cars Loaded Loaded

Twenty percent of all imports are not in compliance with Customs regulations, according to the first

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Efforts by Pacific conference lines to recapture market share from independents through early contra

An investigation into the alleged misuse of state subsidies by Germany's ailing shipbuilder, Bremer

With the blessing of Bob Dole, Florida vegetable growers are using Tuesday's presidential primary to

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has become the second rail union to drop its opposition to t

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

Three months ago cocoa was just another drink in Japan.But after mixing in a little televisi

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After skyrocketing last year, newsprint prices are likely to ease back to more moderate levels later

An agreement in principle reached last month by the United States and Canada in their longstanding b

Paper shippers are beginning to look increasingly at intermodal carriers for their transportation ne

A surge in new containership capacity across the Pacific should be a boon to U.S. wastepaper exporte

The U.S. paper industry had another banner year for exports in 1995, helped along by huge price incr

An industry that only a few years ago balked at recycling a mountain of wastepaper is now doing so m

Thursday, March 7, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Clinton administration will not retaliate against China over an intellectual property rights dis

The caption on a Page 1A photo in Tuesday's edition incorrectly identified the source of the photogr

Mexico blasted the passage by the U.S. Congress of tighter economic sanctions on Cuba, saying it wou

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

BILL WOULD EASE USEOF ELECTRONIC ENCRYPTIONWASHINGTON - A bill making it easier for business

The European Union vowed Thursday to press ahead with a planned trade agreement with Cuba after the