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The future of the Far Eastern Freight Conference will be discussed at a meeting of top-level shippin

The storm-related closure of airports and highways in much of the Northeast disrupted freight moveme

EU TAX MAY SLOW JET FUEL SWAPSLONDON - The removal Jan. 1 of a European Union tax re

Inadequate government regulation has left Louisiana with thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells th

Enron Corp.'s on-again, off-again, multibillion-dollar power project in India appeared to get the fi

The high-tech industrial development zone in this special economic zone in southern Guangdong provin

A blizzard in the Northeast Monday sent oil prices soaring in London, shut down the New York futures

Spanish oil company Repsol SA has discovered an oil field in Khalda, western Egypt, the company said

Coastal Zhejiang province said it now ranks fourth in China in terms of the overall strength of indu

Snow insurance would come in handy to New Hampshire towns this winter, but many town officials have

Volume through the St. Lawrence Seaway has increased for the third consecutive season - reaching 38.

Today's Journal of Commerce is a product of logistics and telecommunications. With a massive

All was not well with the U.S. economy in 1995, and consumer worries put a damper on the domestic ai

As more and more global traders plug in their personal computers at home and log onto electronic dat

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UN DECIDES TO RETAIN EMBARGO ON IRAQUNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council, maki

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Can't find a U.S.-made snowboard at your local department store in Japan? Try the new mall on the In

Many people use different things to see what the future holds: a crystal ball, a Ouija board, tarot

When Nedlloyd Lines last week unexpectedly shut down most of its office functions in Long Beach, it

In another sign that U.S. shippers are responding to Latin American reforms, the privatization of bo

Senate legislation to deregulate ocean shipping has ground to a halt after House transportation lead

Many Canadian companies expect to get a leg up over U.S. exporters to Chile as a result of Ottawa's

Japan's Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who is tipped to become the country's next prime minister,

The U.S. dollar, which sank to a post-World War II global low of 79.75 yen last April before beginni

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

Friday, Jan. 5, 1996 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

A report in Wednesday's edition, headlined "Shippers Delinquent on Storage Bills Must Pay $5,000," o

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(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Jan. 13, '95 - Jan. 5, '96 (a graph) (2)

Egypt's tourism minister, Mamdouh el-Beltagui, says the country hopes to attract some 6.3 million to

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH "It is apparent we would need to increase our ($3.8 billion) offer at the (

The stage is set for 1996 to be one of the most pivotal and transforming years the trans-Pacific oce

Last year's announcement by Asia's shipowners that they would push ahead withplans to set up

Speculative shipbuilding activity that has contributed to so many cyclical troughs in the tanker and

Take a look at almost any trade problem, dispute or structural imbalance in the U.S.-Japan relations

Economists and other experts may have to resort to flipping coins, rolling dice or reading entrails

Trade relations between the United States and the 15-nation European Union are getting boring, and t

If a container falls off a cargo ship in the middle of the Indian Ocean and The Journal of Commerce

Despite some lingering strategic disputes, Russia and the United States increasingly turned their at