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The Federal Maritime Commission at its next scheduled meeting Wednesday, June 29, will consider the

FREE MARKETS SEEN TRIGGERING FARM LOSSLONDON - Total reliance on free market forces to contr

The insurance industry must prove to Congress that it needs the McCarran- Fergus on antitrust exempt

MOZAMBIQUE PLANT TO BE REACTIVATEDLISBON, Portugal - Portugal, Mozambique and South Africa s

Competitive bidding for electricity capacity in New York state may be hindered by a turf battle betw

Plastic container demand is projected to grow over 5 percent a year through 1992 to 7.6 billion poun

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. of New Orleans asked Transportation Secretary James F. Burnley to halt the

Severe drought in the United States has prompted hopes that Argentina's agriculture export earnings

The Senate vote today on an amendment to legislation requiring advance notice of plant closings will

Today's Journal of Commerce was reduced in size due to technical difficulties.

CHEMFIX TECHNOLOGIES SIGNS TREATMENT PACTSMETAIRIE, La. - Chemfix Technologies Inc. recently

A story on these pages June 24 concerning cargo assessments being reduced at the Port of New York &

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The jury in a case linking the hazards of asbestos and smoking found Friday that American Tobacco Co

The 300-year-old Lloyd's of London is famous for insuring the limbs of Betty Grable, the nose of Jim

To help cope with anticipated cargo growth of around 10 percent annually over the next few years, Ai

Americans' personal income, held back by a decline in subsidy payments to farmers, rose a modest 0.3

It's official. The United Nations has given the EDI for Administration, Commerce and Transpo

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European Commission Vice President Lord Cockfield said the European Community must move toward a com

An effort to design the world's first seagoing vessel driven by superconductivi ty has begun in Japa

Western European aviation experts called on the Common Market leadership last week to remove current

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed lawsuits late last week against Chrysler Corp. and 11

CONSULTANT TO AUDIT NJ AGENCY OPERATIONSWOODBRIDGE, N.J. - The New Jersey Highway Authority

The sudden drop in heavy truck sales for Freightliner Corp. last month is no sign that demand is coo

A $60 million plan to rebuild Seattle's central waterfront should stress working maritime uses, comm

When Taiwan opened its doors to foreign beer manufacturers on Jan. 20, 1987, so much beer poured int

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

The Supreme Court settled the battle between the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission and sta

As information in the shipping industry migrates away from paper documents and becomes encoded elect

Frustrated House members are calling a new $16 million telephone system a failure after its third ou

The 11 charter members of a new committee formed to battle the flow of illegal drugs aboard their ve

PHILIPPINES MAY SEEK EASIER TERMS ON DEBTMANILA, Philippines - Finance Secretary Vicente Jay

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* Stanford Erickson - Conversations 6A * Luis Rubio - Mexico Looks to Pacific Basin 6A* Dave

The European Community announced last week that it was reopening an anti- dumping inquiry into impor

The Navy has set up a schedule for retiring 16 aging frigates in a budget- cutting move that prompte

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

Smaller is better in the case of what researchers are calling the world's fastest and most powerful