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Carolina Freight Carriers Corp. is expanding computer links between its tractors and dispatch office

Hitachi Ltd. has disclosed plans to develop a parallel supercomputer using the PowerPC, a reduced in

Roadway Express Inc., feeling a 24-day Teamsters strike in April, said last week it anticipates a pr

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China would be the pivotal player if tough U.N. sanctions are imposed on North Korea, business execu

Labor lobbyists and members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, stung by the House vote to close

If it isn't the persistent labor crisis that drives customers from the French port of Le Havre, it m

As the Clinton administration prepares to send Congress its version of legislation to implement a ne

The China Foreign Exchange Center plans to begin forward trading of foreign currency by the end of t

Friday, June 17, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

Rising to 103.3 from 102.9, The Journal of Commerce's Daily Industrial Price Index signaled fresh in

As German Chancellor Helmut Kohl basks in the glory of his party's victory in last week's European p

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +15.376/13 102.26/14 102.56/15

Accelerated integration of land and water transport will play a pivotal role in the future of ports

A growing taste in the Far East for imported fruit and vegetables and other fresh produce could be t

In a move designed to bolster the port's finances, the Port of San Francisco last week sold $54.6 mi

GROUP WARNS OF FEE TIED TO YEMENI WARLONDON - Shipping lines operating container ser

An all-day strike and picketing by members of a marine engineers union against two WestCoast Shippin

As U.S. oil tanker executives converged over the weekend on the sunny golf courses of Pebble Beach,

Thousands of businesses fear that a provision in several health-care reform proposals would force th

* May 5, 1965: North Korea sets up nuclear research facility at Yongbyon, 60 miles north of Pyongyan

The Insurance Services Office unveiled a national building evaluation program designed to grade the

After a rate-slashing free-for-all encouraging huge losses, India's four nonlife insurance companies

WILLIS UNIT MOVED TO PARENT'S CONTROLThe health care reinsurance unit of Willis Corroon Amer

GAN NORTH AMERICA (New York) - J. Russell Smith has joined the property/ casualty insurer as vice pr

Farmers Insurance Group said it has temporarily suspended sales of earthquake insurance in the Unite

When a major European port wanted an assessment of the trans-Atlantic trades before deciding on deve

Organizations representing carriers, shippers and transport workers are decrying efforts to close th

Richard H. Booth has resigned as president and director of Travelers Inc.'s unit, Travelers Insuranc

Decreases in clothing, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages and housing pushed Canadian consumer pr

Australia's export price index fell 1.2 percent in April from March to 89.8 points, the government a

Two years after the former French Socialist government voted to approve a historic law reforming the

U.S. port authority directors, representatives of labor, ocean carriers and federal agencies appeale

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

BRAZILIAN CARRIER ADDS 3RD SHIP TO SERVICENEW YORK - Brazilian carrier Frota Amazoni

The 26 percent annual decline in Russia's industrial output in the first half of this year has been

Provisional figures released Friday by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed Dutch industrial sale

The United States, the European Union and Japan held confidential talks here late last week to build

Mexican commerce officials have slapped trade penalties of nearly 500 percent on handbags and luggag