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The Customs Service plans to require that all ships entering U.S. ports submit a unique" bill of lad

Neil R. Austrian joined the investment bank Dillon Read & Co. as a managing director. He will be act

Issues of trade are expected to be discussed in greater detail Friday in New York when U.S. Secretar

A weeklong exchange of ideas and a closed-door session in the southern Republic of Georgia has produ

Unleaded regular self-service gasoline prices are 1.5 cents a gallon higher in September than they w

Kuwait's foreign minister says his government gave Syria free oil to attend the Islamic summit in Ku

Large amounts of oil, gas and electricity in energy-short Vietnam are stolen for resale or personal

Gov. Michael Dukakis bowed to consumer groups in making several changes in his universal health insu

Singapore-NY Meeting To Focus on FuturesRepresentatives of the New York Mercantile Exchange

Continental Corp.'s plans to sell its $432 million life insurance operations stem from a long-term s

A new air services agreement between Canada and Britain "bodes well for consumers on both sides of t

Federal Aviation Administration chief Allan McArtor announced Monday that his agency would begin ins

The frills are back. MGM Grand Air recently began ultra first-class flights complete with ca

There has been an 800 percent increase in reports of pilots flying in restricted air space, violatin

Singer Division Wins Delta Simulator JobBINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Singer Co.'s Link Flight Simulati

The heat's on at fabricators of head hardened steel rail as a Chicago company develops a new hardeni

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

Employees at the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad resumed their strike over the weekend, after the li

The Interstate Commerce Commission Monday rejected a request that it not delay the sale of the Soo L

SEL Canada, Tandem Take Shares in AMCIOMAHA, Neb. - AMCI, Automated Monitoring and Control I

Two New York state legislators are squaring off to battle the Port Authority of New York and New Jer

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

Plomarity Is Elected Gulf Ports PresidentPENSACOLA, Fla. - Harry G. Plomarity, port director

A British-flag tanker was attacked Monday night and set on fire, apparently by Iranian gunboats off

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are experiencing such rapid growth in cargo volume that toge

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says construction will start this month on a $31.2 mil

Finguerra Named To TRIP BoardGeorge J. Finguerra, president and chief operating officer of t

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

The industry laughed when Jim Darnell first talked about putting rollers on pallets to make the load

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

What goes up in the heavy-truck market will come down next year, says Data Resources Inc. in a recen

Sept. 21 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

A 564-foot freighter collided with a car-carrier ship Monday in dense fog off the coast of Californi

1031.5 (Sept. 21) Previous day - 1034.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

The Gulf Ports Association, still reeling from a 1985 political blow dealt by Great Lakes ports, hav

Mon., Sept. 21, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Pharmacia Leo Inc., an affiliate of Pharmacia AB, a Swedish-based biotechnology and pharmaceutical c

Pfizer Buys Complex From Gulf & WesternPfizer Inc. announced an expansion and consolidation

The use of styrofoam cups and so-called clamshell food and beverage containers soon may be outlawed

Fred Keady, a Chicago businessman, has reached an agreement to purchase Millers Cove Resources Inc.,