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Armed with allegations of intimidation, underreporting of accidents and questions about the circumst

Ask most manufacturers what is meant by ''free trade in North America'' and you're likely to hear so

With electronic clearance of air cargo receiving only mixed reviews since its inception in 1989, the

With Fritz Cos. having acquired more than 38 brokers and forwarders over the past three years, and A

As Washington turns its attention to the November elections, ship deregulation legislation seems to

As insurers start to count the cost of cleaning up last month's huge oil spill off the Welsh coast,

The costs of benefits paid to injured employees and getting them back to work decreased or stayed th

Florida's property insurance crisis took another step toward resolution when two more insurers said

JUDGE: COAL OFFICIALSMUST PAY IN COMP CASECHARLESTON, W.Va. - Officers of War Eagle

STATE FARM AUTO INSURERSALMOST DOUBLE THEIR NETBLOOMINGTON, Ill. - State Farm's two

Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced a reshuffle of its top personnel Friday, promoting its man

Members of the House Commerce and Transportation and Infrastructure committees will be briefing thei

The Federal Railroad Administration has amended emergency rules issued late last month that are inte

ABC Containerline NV is restructuring its round-the-world service after the recent arrest of one its

The European Union has abandoned a plan for a shipping register for its 15 member states that was at

The three shipping conferences that govern rates from Japan to the United States are being merged in

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

Speculation was rising at the weekend that owner-operators, fed up with congestion and low pay, woul

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

ZIM UNION PLEDGESTO BEGIN LABOR ACTIONNEW YORK - Zim Israel Navigation Co. may once

Ports in East Asia could be handling more than half the world's container moves by the turn of the c

Whatever happened to Customs modernization?It's alive and well in Canada, whose Customs serv

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Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., has set March 15 as the target date for a Senate vote on a new 10-year, $1

Friday, Mar. 1, 1996(Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Apr. 10 '95, - Mar. 1, '96 (a graph)(2)D

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

Look east, the Commerce Department's export promotion officials are telling U.S. medical equipment m

Factories' new export orders and their bookings for imported materials declined slightly in February

As part of its efforts to become the premiere electronic provider of transportation information worl

The February employment report, to be released Friday, will be a make-or-break event for the U.S. do

A clear and intriguing theme among the many strands emerging from the pioneering Asia-Europe summit

The World Bank signed a $45 million financing package for war-ravaged Bosnia.Friday's action

Demonstrations and protests sparked by a recent news story in The Journal of Commerce concerning the

When it comes to implementing new regulations, the U.S. Customs Service is one of the most deliberat

''Because so many opinions have already been written on this abstruse subject, we elect not to consu

RUSSIA'S TARIFF THREATBRINGS AN EU WARNINGBRUSSELS - The European Commission warned

Two price indexes, one from the federal government and the other from The Journal of Commerce, confi

Total quality management is fueling an uptick in Armstrong World Industries Inc.'s worldwide sales.<

A story appearing on Page 7A on Wednesday with the headline, ''What Happens At Lloyd's Affects Us Al