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Ocean carriers expect to return to Liverpool in the coming week as container- handling operations at

Port officials here say they will try to persuade Nestle Beverage Co. to change its plans to elimina

Plans by China to introduce a multi-lane system on the Yangtze River have been stymied byinadequate

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CONTSHIP TO SHIFT CALL TO PORT OF CHARLESTONCHARLESTON - The South Carolina State Po

Japanese companies, having largely restored their price competitiveness amid the yen's recent fall a

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SAN FRANCISCO PILOT BOARD SEEKS INLAND RATES STUDYSAN FRANCISCO - The Board of Pilot

WISCONSIN SENATE VOTES NO ON GASOLINE TAX HIKEMADISON, Wis. - The state Senate rejec

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Amtrak, the troubled, federally subsidized passenger railroad that's been ordered to become self-sus

Rates for moving bulk commodities across the world oceans have plummeted, and ship owners have only

The U.S. Customs Service plans to begin using electronic visas Jan. 1 to clear textile imports from

Nearly three years after its launch, the European Union's single market isn't living up to its name.

Hapag-Lloyd AG, Germany's leading ocean carrier, Wednesday confirmed plans to spend more than $700 m

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Consumers cut back sharply on the amount of debt they took on in September, the Federal Reserve said

The U.S. dollar received $1.5 billion in support from the U.S. monetary authorities in the third qua

An American-invested venture producing compact discs in China was ordered to close because its outpu

Chancellor Helmut Kohl Wednesday delivered a nationally televised appeal to the German people to ove

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Singapore's port officials want to lease two container berths at Madras for at least two years.<

Garment exporters in Sri Lanka are pressing their government to remove procedural and other problems

With profit doubling in the last fiscal year and volumes growing in double digits, one of Manila's t

Rocket science is set to revolutionize the humble maritime container. The ceramic heat-refle

The Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday it had approved a 3.0 billion- yen ($29.1 million) inve

Airborne Express this week signed an agreement under which its Advanced Logistics Services subsidiar

Freight Claims, Filing and Recovery. Nov. 9. One-day seminar sponsored by Transportation Claims and

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Frito-Lay Inc. has hired lobbyist Ann M. Eppard, an ally of Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the

Shipper opinion about the proposed merger of Union Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Transportat

A bipartisan Senate bill to close down the Interstate Commerce Commission and scale back its existin

While the Israeli premier's assassination has cast a shadow over the Middle East peace process, Pale

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When Mexico's economic crisis began to take root following a botched lateDecember devaluatio

INSURERS WIN RULING ON CALIFORNIA FEESSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Insurers in California wo

Standard & Poor's issued quantitative, or "q," ratings Wednesday on more than 1,700 property/casualt

Bridget Milling Smith, widow of a Royal Marine officer killed on active duty in Oman, has given up t

Adam Raphael plans to spend his money, practice conspicuous consumption. "Better than giving