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Federal agents took into custody 20 stowaways, including 19 men and one women, aboard the containers

The United States must show more willingness to open its shipbuilding market if an agreement on elim

The organization representing U.S. owners of ships that are registered offshore has come out against

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Usually they are found by a dockworker who hears banging from inside a container. By then, t

LATIN RATE GROUP WELCOMES MAERSKMIAMI - A Latin American shipping conference formall

Negotiations will resume as early as Monday between the Teamsters and trucking management in an effo

Opening up an export market can be as easy as opening up your school yearbook, according to one awar

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' market share and volume have sharply declined in the all-water trade between As

HANJIN SHIPPING CO. (Long Beach, Calif.) - Gordon Arita was appointed assistant general manager of i

Japan has approved $40 million in credits to Kazakhstan for the construction of rail lines and cargo

The Paris Club of creditor countries has granted a debt rescheduling to the Central African Republic

The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, with its membership down by more than a t

Several major companies have turned themselves into the shipping equivalent of an 800-pound gorilla

The 12 member states of the European Union struggled late Thursday in their bid to settle a complica

A bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill to exempt a

Under heavy pressure from U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, India agreed here this week to re

Peter Sutherland, director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, will step down fro

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The repositioning of empty containers remains a serious headache for liner shipping companies, which

The European Commission probably will approve a massive but highly controversial government cash inj

BRAZIL WILL TRY AGAIN TO PRIVATIZE SHIP LINERIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The Brazilian g

William A. Franke, chairman of America West Airlines, said the carrier cannot afford to play "chicke

ICC WILL VOTE TUESDAY ON TWO RAILROAD CASESWASHINGTON - The Interstate Commerce Comm

Burlington Northern Railroad will complete restructuring of its intermodal activities Monday when it

Film, Air and Package Carriers Conference. April 17-22. Annual meeting and magazine seminar. Crystal

Canadian motor carriers have been unable to cross the U.S.-Mexico border despite a memorandum of und

Illinois Central Corp., parent of Illinois Central Railroad, earned $27.7 million, or 65 cents a sha

UK ENDS FRAUD PROBE INTO LLOYD'S AGENCYThe Serious Fraud Office said it called off its inves

Linda Morgan, President Clinton's first nominee to the Interstate CommerceCommission, has be

Japanese and U.S. tax authorities agreed to impose 4 billion yen (US$38.6 million) in taxes on the J

John A. Hill, a former president of Aetna Life & Casualty Co., has died in Nashville. He was 87.

Japanese manufacturers' liabilities are slowly increasing. The Cabinet approved the nation's first b

Resumption of large volume coal shipments in the East and continued record coal trafficin the West h

Japan's air force had to spend $960,000 to inspect training jets after a mechanic fiddled with canop

UAL EXPECTS BUYOUT TO SAVE $8.2 BILLIONNEW YORK - UAL Corp., the parent company of U

Uzbekistan has stepped up the currency reforms it announced Nov. 15 by banning use of the Russian ru

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo has signed into law a bill giving the New York Insurance Department new po

Transamerica Corp. sold its entire 21 percent stake in London-based Sedgwick Group PLC, as part of i