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Oct. 24, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

A former congresswomen and longtime advocate of the U.S. maritime industry warned Europeans on Tuesd

Bills to deregulate ocean shipping and to implement an international agreement cutting back shipbuil

An opposition group that plans to push the U.S. labor movement into more confrontational tactics aga

LONGSHOREMAN KILLED AT LONG BEACH RAILYARDLONG BEACH, Calif. - A longshoreman was ki

Brazil is a country rebuilding itself. If the pace at times still seems a little halting, the contin

When Mohammad Jalallar came to New York City from Afghanistan to join his sons at their O J Art Gall

The dockworkers who have been leading labor's charge against the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1995 h

If you get the fat out, you don't need faster ships. At least that's what Volvo thinks. By 1

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At a time when global trade barriers are falling, a little-known federal agency that wields tremendo

To most Americans, mezcal is the rotgut variation of tequila - a guaranteed headache. But in China,

Pilots at Federal Express Corp. were poised Tuesday to reject an offer ofbinding arbitration

Business leaders reacted with anger Tuesday to reports that the British government is planning to fi

Acknowledging that the Philippines had until recently been a "basket case," President Fidel Ramos pl

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Oct. 28 '94 - Oct. 24, '95 (a graph) (2)

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

A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday that Washington's trade ban on Iran had hurt American compani

Japan's food imports in the first six months of this year climbed 11.5 percent over the same period

NORTH AMERICA World Trade '95 (Agents/Distributors Locator and Recruiter Show). Oct. 26. Tor

SWEDEN PREPARES TO PRIVATIZE BANKSTOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish banking authorities Tue

Customs figures show joint ventures in the city's Pudong development area posted exports of $2.8 bil

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Aon Corp., the insurance services organization based in Chicago, is continuing expansion into the As

The international business community is ready to withdraw its industrialinvestments in the U

UK'S PRUDENTIAL PLANS TO ENTER RETAIL BANKINGLONDON - Prudential Corp. PLC, Britain'

Internet users will be able to buy insurance policies online starting Nov. 1, promises the InsWeb se

CHUBB CORP. POSTS RISE IN NET INCOME, CATASTROPHE LOSSES FOR THIRD QUARTERWARREN, N.

A British High Court ruling Wednesday will make Lloyd's of London investors ''pay now, sue later."

To Air Products and Chemicals Inc., a leading international supplier of industrial gases, the Federa

Come April, the Canadian Coast Guard will be collecting a fee for its services. That much seems defi

CAST LTD. (Montreal) Jean-Pierre Histrimont has been appointed as Cast's regional di- rector for Fra

PANALPINA ADDS SHIP TO AFRICAN SERVICEJERSEY CITY, N.J. - Panalpina World Transport

International Petroleum Exchange Oct. 24, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Oct. 24, 1995 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

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Consider the problems of a stunted adolescent whose sudden renewed growth indicates a previously uns

To speed the elimination of another transport bottleneck, the federal government announced in Septem