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A law firm will run American Mutual Insurance Co. for a year or more as the Massachusetts State Insu

The Fritz Cos., a large San Francisco-based freight forwarder and customhouse broker, recently sough

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Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

WORLD BANK TO LEND $1 BILLION TO BRAZILBRASILIA, Brazil - The World Bank proposed a new $1 b

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The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The Treasury Department's top enforcement official suggested that the shipping industry should desig

A Florida-based shipping line Friday added some punch to an effort to block International Shipholdin

Midway Airlines is hooking up with a neighbor to the north, Canadian Airlines International.

General Electric Information Services, Rockville, Md., has announced Design Express, a service that

Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey last week gave authorization to proce

When the dust settles after the current round of mergers in the air freight industry, pure forwarder

The precarious position of tanker owners having to decide within the next few years whether to inves

PERHAPS WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATING this economy more. That may sound like heresy to those who believe

JOB REPORT CALLED NON-INFLATIONARYAlthough a few analysts detected labor-cost pressures in t

The Prospect Group Inc. said it has reached an agreement to acquire the Illinois Central Transportat

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Standing outside former Soviet leader Andrei Gromyko's office while visiting the Kremlin last year,

Magna International Inc. and Societe Generale de Financement du Quebec, or SGF, announced the format

Prices for ethylene oxide and related products are rising after an explosion Tuesday night at a plan

ARCO CHEMICAL CO. (Newtown Square, Pa.) - E. Kent Damon Jr., David T. McLaughlin, and James A. Middl

Thousands of villagers are flocking to a river in eastern India after the discovery of diamonds in o

A new rise in industrial raw material prices so far in March suggests that the economy could be buil

MEXICO TO SELL OFF TELEPHONE COMPANYThe Mexican government has decided to sell its controlli

Higher prices for scrap copper and crude oil continue to lead the rise in The Journal of Commerce In

The marine and transport operations of major oil companies are being increasingly treated as separat

Steamship conferences are concerned about about a "me-too" provision in service contract regulations

ASHLAND OIL IS FINED FOR TANK COLLAPSEA federal judge late Thursday fined Ashland Oil Inc. $

The world's leading chemical companies will meet in Australia this year todraw up safeguards

At a time when international economic sanctions are making it harder than ever for South Africa to c

Senate transportation leaders will try again to enact a sweeping drug testing law for workers in the

New U.S. charges of Japanese involvement in a Libyan chemical weapons plant were aimed at sabotaging

The State Department is taking a fresh look at all options and costs in resolving the future of the

Shipowners will likely pay about 10 percent more to transit the Panama Canal starting in October.

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Thousands of truck drivers, forwarding agents and shipping agents staged a major demonstration in th

GPA Group Ltd., the Shannon, Ireland-based air leasing and finance group, announced Wednesday that l

SENATE PANEL CHAIRMAN HITS BOEING TESTIMONYWASHINGTON - A Senate subcommittee chairman lashe

Plans are going ahead for the second phase of a harbor development to improve links between southern