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Matson Navigation Co. said it will spend $26 million to expand its container inventory this year.

The president and chief executive of Sea-Land Service Inc. said the first step to revive the commerc

Port officials in New Orleans say a drop in container volume is a sign the landbridge is alive and w

The World Trade Institute. Seminar on ocean and air trade documentation. Nov. 2-4 at the Guest Quart

Canada's Great Lakes carriers have called for a public inquiry into the western grain movement syste

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

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

Stocks rose sharply in a broad-based advance Thursday, as the feeling spread that the worst has pass

A top European Community official called Thursday for urgent action to stop the U.S. dollar from sli

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Western banks stepped up new lending to $70 billion in the second quarter of 1987, the largest quart

Internike, Texas Broker Set Affiliation PactFORT WORTH, Texas - Bayly, Martin & Fay, the 10t

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Two nuclear insurance pools have revised their liability insurance programs so that liability claims

Massachusetts health insurers are again worried that the state may compete with private group insure

Harvard University is trying to design a feasible program of long-term care insurance for its employ

TALK ABOUT TALKING 'til you're blue in the face. At an all-media panel on Monday dissecting

The decline of the dollar, which continued to fall after reaching a seven- year low this week, is hi

Lawyers Wednesday filed the first suit stemming from the deadly collapse of the L'Ambiance Plaza pro

The Travelers Corp. reported operating income of $107.5 million, or $1.02 a share, for the third qua

The clamor for a weekly column by the publisher of The Journal of Commerce has reached deafening pro

The drop in the dollar alone will not be sufficient to reduce the U.S. trade deficit substantially,

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is grappling with a mid-life crisis as it prepares to mar

New Jersey's program to clean hazardous waste sites could be impeded if the Department of Environmen

A strange thing sometimes happens when a freight forwarder becomes a non- vessel-operating common ca

The new Norwegian International Ships Registry now boasts a membership of 83 vessels, representing a

Dow Chemical Co.'s Dutch subsidiary has lost a legal battle to suspend an investigation by the Europ

Francis J. Ivancie has agreed that the Federal Maritime Commission, on which he serves, will have to

Sales of Lime Remain StableThe sales and consumption of lime by a composite of 94 U.S. produ

An Indian physician and a biochemist said a new analysis of medical data from the Bhopal gas tragedy

Duratek Corp., majority held by National Patent Development Corp., has received its first contract f

Imperial Chemical Says Income UpImperial Chemical Industries PLC of London reported third- q

International Proteins Ends Bid for HubbardFAIRFIELD, N.J. - International Proteins Corp. an

A Virginia Power fuel official said Virginia companies striving to fill a larger share of his utilit

Duquesne Light Co.'s overall electricity sales grew 21.2 percent in the third quarter, driven largel

Nerco Net Increases To $15.3 MillionPORTLAND, Ore. - Nerco Inc.'s third quarter net income w

The United Mine Workers of America seek to negotiate contracts without strikes if possible, union pr

Tosco Corp. reported third quarter net income of $10.6 million, or 7 cents a share, down from earnin