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A trio of commodities - plywood, scrap steel and cotton - is pushing The Journal of Commerce's Indus

Mersey Docks and Harbour Co., which owns the U.K. ports of Liverpool and Sheerness, reported a recor

The cost of moving some oil tankers into and out of Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor will go up Saturda

Every time they see a baseball tossed or a life jacket left unfastened, the captain and crew of the

Locomotive engineers began returning to their jobs Wednesday on the Soo Line Railroad and the carrie

Arkansas Best Corp., whose largest unit is the less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System Inc.,

UNITED TO TAKE OVER DENVER'S BAGGAGE SYSTEMDENVER - United Airlines plans to take ov

TNT Express Worldwide has concluded an agreement with postal authorities in Nicaragua and Colombia f

The Clinton administration is fighting to preserve a watered-down version of a tough 1988 trade law,

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Germany's biggest river port, Duisburg, plans to nearly double its container- handling capacity with

The furor in Congress over extending President Clinton's special trade- negotiating authority has th

The president of the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank, Marcos Rodriguez-Ema, has told a Puert

It can carry 10 elephants, 10 gorillas, 20 lions, 30 hippopotamuses and 100 chimpanzees. The

The Federal Maritime Commission wants carriers on the North Atlantic to explain how an eastbound cap

Small freight forwarders are upset over a Pentagon plan to funnel as much as $200 million in air car

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Cargo operations at Delta Air Lines will escape relatively unharmed, compared to thepassenger side,

When Claudia Cota first started exporting jewelry to the United States from this steep-hilled town w

Delta Air Lines and AT&T Global Information Solutions announced Tuesday that they have agreed in pri

As American and other companies spur Vietnam's commercial development, they are discovering that pro

Securities analysts, economists and even some folks in the railroad industry are beginning to questi

The Teamsters union is suspending a local president because of alleged organized crime connections a

Legislation affecting maritime subsidies, the national highway system, new taxes on insurers, high-s

Tower Group International Inc. said it has acquired the U.S. operations ofTrans Global Logis

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Tuesday, Aug. 23, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

FEDERAL EXPRESS TO ADD CARGO FLIGHTS IN JAPANOSAKA, Japan - Federal Express Corp. sa

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The Clinton administration, building on its year-old national export strategy, is about to release t

Union Pacific Railroad intends to abandon its line between El Dorado and Yates Center but will conti

The U.S. dollar held firm to gains from previous trading zones benefitingfrom a stronger U.S

The inclusion of a social clause in international trade agreements could defuse a rise in protection

Singapore's July consumer price index rose 3.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Departm

Recent moves suggest India is moving two steps forward and one back in its reform of the aviation se

Chrysler Corp. will quiz its Chinese joint-venture partner over claims that an associated company is

This week's relatively problem-free election of ruling party candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon

"The era of politicians-symbols is coming to an end, and now the time has come for professionals in

A new survey of intermodal equipment trends shows a 20 percent year-to-year increase inthe rail-base