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The battle for cocoa dominance is widening to include smaller, but well- equipped ports along the No

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It is possible to look at the lush cornfields across the Midwest and not see the devastating impact

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The Russian enterprise Rosbaltport plans to start building a freight and passenger terminal at the P

HOLLAND AMERICA ADDS ITALIAN-BUILT CRUISE SHIPSEATTLE - A. Kirk Lanterman, Holland A

Senate Democrats are circulating a funding plan that would lop nearly $250 million off the House-pas

Despite industry and official expectations, a staffer for the House Merchant Marine Subcommittee sai

The number of Romanian stowaways coming from the French port of Le Havre is dropping, and it has U.S

Translink Navigation SA, one of the most long lived of the small ocean carriers that rose up to chal

A federal jury has convicted three former health insurance consultants of embezzling $3.4 million in

When it comes to buying reinsurance, price is secondary to security, industry officials say.

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RISE IN QUAKE ESTIMATE HITS FIRMS' RATINGSOLDWICK, N.J. - A.M. Best Co. has downgraded 20th

The French insurance company Axa has rejected criticism of its planned $110 million investment in th

Pool Reinsurance Co., the U.K. government-sponsored reinsurer of companies that provideterrorism ins

Hull-insurance prices are on an even keel after three years of increases, and that hasAmerican marin

* Opening the first American Business Center in Western Europe at Duesseldorf as well as other, smal

The U.S. government expects Japan to adopt the tariffication of rice in the year 2001 when the six-y

Despite labor woes and increased competition from the Port of Wilmington, Del., the Port of Philadel

Its image marred by accusations of labor-law violations, McDonald's is fighting back with an aggress

The choice of using breakbulk or containers for coffee, rubber, forest products and other commoditie

Having surrendered business in several commodities to container lines in recent years, breakbulk ref

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The not-so-secret word for small ports in the Pacific Northwest is diversification. Ports tr

The U.S. dollar will dive to record lows against the Japanese yen, as the trade talks with Japan go

Inflation-sensitive cotton, aluminum, zinc, tin, plywood and crude-oil prices pushed the Journal of

The story headlined "Brooklyn Ship Docks May Soon Be History With Sale of 5 Piers," which appeared o

Japanese inspectors are concluding their initial examination of Washington state apple orchards, and

Just two months after a new law was introduced in South Korea to protect computer programs, an indus

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs heard rumors about bid-rigging and other improprieties in Japan's Of

Thursday's crash of a USAir Boeing 737 jet was the fifth serious accident for the Arlington, Va., ca

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST. LOUIS (St. Louis) - Mary H. Karr was named senior vice president, genera

MALEV TO BUY, LEASE FOUR FOKKER 70 JETSDutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker Aircraft B

At Johnny Rocker's, nobody cares about international trade or a gathering of supposed foreign bigwig

A political party committed to separating Quebec from the rest of Canada is expected to emerge victo

Vietnam and the United States have agreed to kick off civil aviation talks as soon as November on op

Illinois coal-mining jobs could drop by more than 40 percent in the next three years, leaving only a

"What is good we take advantage of, what is bad, we hide . . . I have no scruples."

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