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Ask any shipping executive off the record and he'll tell you: rebating, or payments from a steamship

Wings West Optimistic On Traffic for 1988LOS ANGELES - Wings West's traffic should continue

Double stack container trains are arriving in this city in ever-increasing numbers - each bringing i

Tue., Oct. 27, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Dukakis for President campaign has reimbursed $440 to a director of a proposed Massachusetts aut

Cocoa Producers Seen Weighing Quota PlansThe Cocoa Producers Alliance will hold its semiannu

The Personal System-2 computer is a "runaway success" for IBM, which has sold 1 million units since

Allied-Signal Aerospace Co., which was operating two of its acquisitions as autonomous units, has re

E. Peterson Named PIA Consumer AdviserAt its 56th annual convention Tuesday, the National As

The port of Long Beach handled a record 1,457,561 containers in 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in f

Hundreds of curious truckers could not resist the chance to see their tormentors up close. T

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

W. German Fair Looks At Industrial SafetyDUSSELDORF, West Germany - A + A 87, an industrial

The lower European Community grains crop combined with budgetary problems will mean there is no pres

Ford Motor Co. posted a 1.43 percent rise in its third quarter net income, pushing its year-to-date

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration this week fined International Paper Co. $242,000 for

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Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Five American companies, including the largest paper firm and the second- biggest phone company, wer

Major commodity exporters like Brazil see the recent glimmering promise of firming world commodity p

Holding hands with newcomers to international trade is a major part of the job for trade development

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

Virginia Chemical Co. of Portsmouth, Va., and Kureha Chemical Industry Co., Tokyo, have formed a joi

George Steinbrenner is best known as principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, but his

Iran will probably cut oil prices to try to counter the U.S. trade embargo, Energy Secretary John He

Oct. 27 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

As the financial crisis continued, Reagan administration and congressional budget negotiators began

Longshoremen in Southern California for years have enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle - good wages, ste

The Reagan administration has announced export restrictions on 14 different categories of goods to I

Clad in a khaki shirt and pants tucked into 13-inch dark leather ranch boots, Patricia Ziegler is he

German Trade Surplus Soared in SeptemberFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany posted a trad

The United Arab Emirates are not in danger of an attack by Iran because of the large volume of trade

Adam Opel AG, the West German subsidiary of General Motors Corp., confirmed Tuesday that it plans to

By applying the latest techniques of genetic engineering, investigators have induced laboratory mice

Soviet nuclear power officials concluded a two-week tour of the United States on Monday, saying they

USAir Earnings Nearly DoubleUSAir Group earned $71.8 million, or $1.66 a share, in the third

Eastern Airlines delays more of one type of maintenance than any other airline, according to the pre

Norfolk Southern Corp. joined most of its large sister railroads, that already had taken write-offs,

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it has postponed a new crane fee on container goods m

The U.S. dollar fell to an eight-year low of 1.7540 deutsche marks Tuesday, on traders' ongoing pess