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MITSUBISHI MATERIALS SMELTS HUGE GOLD BLOCKTOKYO - Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corp

The International Chamber of Shipping and the Institute of International Container Lessors have join

It has been more than two years since the U.S. Navy pulled out of Subic Bay, leaving the Philippine

COSCO RESUMES PARTIAL SERVICE AT KOBETOKYO - China Ocean Shipping Co. said it resume

U.S. carriers can survive without tariff filing and the protection of the Federal Maritime Commissio

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

The Senate's second-ranking Republican has pledged to back the Clinton administration's program to e

Three ocean carriers calling Brazil and Argentina will join forces to offer a joint service that con

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

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The United States incurred one of its worst trade deficits ever in 1994 and what is in store this ye

MASS. COUNCIL PUSHES FOR HARBOR TAX CREDITBOSTON - The Massachusetts Seaport Advisor

Faced with the prospect that the Republican-led House will try to eliminate the Federal Maritime Com

Shippers are angry that carriers in the Latin American Shipping Service Association arehitting them

It's just after 1 p.m. on a rainy Wednesday in January, and Richard Lawson is addressing a meeting o

REGIONAL BLOCS How to Select and Evaluate the Export-Import Potential of Overseas Markets. F

Swiss watch exports in 1994 grew by 4.9 percent in value terms to 7.95 billion Swiss francs (US$6 bi

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months. The Journal of Commerce assumes

AGENCY TO GIVE FUNDS FOR ZIMBABWE HOUSINGHARARE, Zimbabwe - The U.S. Agency for Inte

As North Korea struggles to keep economically afloat, its oldest ally is forging ever tighter ties w

The Fiji government hopes to lure up to 28,000 Hong Kong-Chinese business migrants to these tropical

Poland collected $7.1 billion in import tariffs last year, nearly twice the amount the government ha

French recycled paper manufacturers are frustrated by French tardiness in jumping on the "green" ban

Japan rebuffed U.S. efforts to pry open its car market on Friday as the European Union fended off To

1992 (Feb. 17, 1995) Previous day - 1983 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Rufus Yerxa, a top trade official in the Clinton and Bush administrations, will join the law firm of

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It looked like it could contain a bomb. A small, isolated metal filing case wrapped with a f

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

A plan to create a new commission to oversee marine pilots was shelved in favor of a cooperative agr

Nobody has anything kind to say about the U.S. dollar. "It's darkest before the dawn," was t

Finland posted a 1994 trade balance surplus of 33.660 billion markka ($7.29 billion), compared with

Finland posted a 5.6 million markka (US$25.85 million) current account surplus in 1994, compared wit

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 18, '94 - Feb. 17, '95 (a graph) (2

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Richard Lugar admits that it is risky to begin a presidential

Ford Motor Co. remains determined to expand in the China market, despite the current threat of a tra

Lost amid the gloom of Mexico's wrenching currency collapse and financial crisis is a glimmer of pos