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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 240.24 off 0.59

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Oct. 13, 1995 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The top 20 ports in the United States reported growth in container-handling in the first seven month

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Missiles may be pointed at Poland. Nuclear weapons could be redeployed. Spying in Western Europe wil

Russian finance and trade company Yuvelirprom said it will buy 30.25 tons of gold in 1996 from Rosko

Two major natural-gas supply agreements were signed last week within the European Union, reflecting

Friday Oct. 13, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

UPJOHN ACQUIRES ALZHEIMER'S TECHNOLOGYKALAMAZOO, Mich. - Upjohn Co. has acquired rig

Republican leaders will try again Tuesday to bring a bill tightening U.S. sanctions against Cuba to

Kazakhstan has created a commission headed by its prime minister to decide what to do about the Vasi

The European Union is expected to clear in principle a joint venture between the telephone monopolie

Japan's electric utilities sector will focus on promoting nuclear power and developing new and effic

Telecommunications between 16 islands in the eastern Caribbean and North America and Europe is being

CANADA WANTS EU TO NEGOTIATE DISPUTEOTTAWA - Canada would like to negotiate a settle

Despite protests from the importing and forwarding community, a divided Port of Seattle Commission l

REGIONAL BLOCS Integrating the North/South Trade Corridor. Oct. 19-20. Seattle. Cont

Two Mexican companies involved in transportation have formed a joint venture with a Texas short-line

Europe's aggressive aviation consortium is forging closer ties with China in an attempt to gain low-

Union Pacific Railroad Friday made a new trackage rights proposal to Kansas City Southern Railway in

USDA LOWERS ESTIMATE FOR BRAZIL COFFEE OUTPUTWASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agr

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. (A&A) Friday announced that it has completed its previously anno

For most of the world's grain-hungry nations, the news from the United Nations was not good.

MGIC INVESTMENT CORP. SEES NET INCOME RISEMILWAUKEE - MGIC Investment Corp. said its

MOODY'S REVIEWS RATING OF SOUTHWESTERN LIFEMoody's Investors Service placed the "B2" insuran

Malaysia's oft-criticized insurance industry is adopting new technology to improve efficiency, as re

The supreme courts of Oklahoma and Texas have ruled that property/casualty insurers do not have to p

Southern Africa's leading sugar producers, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, are each anticipati

As political reform opens new export markets for South Africa's manufacturers, domestic insurers are

Asia's containerized trade volume will double over the next five years to 104 million 20-foot equiva

Following the lead of the new terminal operator at Mexico's major east coast port, the new operators

Pacific Northwest ports have screamed long and loud for more than eight years about a federal cargo

The port industry's own Joe Scroggins Jr., a member of the Federal MaritimeCommission by way

The American Association of Port Authorities expects its largest convention turnout in more than a d

The nation's two longshore unions will negotiate new contracts with shipping lines and stevedores in

The U.S. port industry, at its annual convention this week, will attempt to resolve deep differences

Ports executives look at what Navieras/NPR Inc. did this past summer andshudder. In one swif

Spurred by coal and coke and chemicals exports, the Port of Hampton Roads, Va., traditionally ranks

One of the most significant events of the 1990s as far as East Coast ports are concerned has been th