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Next January first will mark a historic date in international trade" when a new tariff classificatio

The port of Chicago spends 26 percent of its annual income on insurance premiums at a time when oper

Legislation to increase pilotage fees for every foreign and U.S. vessel entering or departing from t

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners has approved a fiscal year 1988 budget that projects i

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

American National Can To Build R&D CenterAmerican National Can Co. will build a $10 million

Conrail NYSE Symbol Replaces Leaseway'sBeginning with today's stock market trading, Consolid

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down an appeal from Cooper Stevedoring Co. challenging a port's right

The International Insurance Society Inc. annual meeting will be held July 5-9 in Seoul, South Korea

Sun Raises Posting For Michigan CrudeTULSA, Okla. - Sun Refining and Marketing Co. raised it

The family of one of the three crewmembers killed aboard the fishing trawler Jack Jr. last year has

A Federal Maritime Commission law judge said the commission should require ocean carriers to file mo

Brazilian President Jose Sarney is preparing a virtual barrage of political gestures during the next

GENERAL NEWS The International Trade and Computerization Conference and Exhibition is schedu

The Central Electricity Generating Board, Britain's biggest coal user, ordered 300,000 metric tons o

China Expected to Cut Farm Exports in '87The Agriculture Department says China is reducing i

Austrian Airlines said income from its now minuscule air cargo operations could jump 25 percent when

Want to know what the liner shipping industry will be like by the year 2000? Take a look at what's h

Gov. Thomas H. Kean on Friday signed legislation that will limit the liability of tavern and restaur

Oil prices closed the week sharply higher in Europe on optimism that the Organization of Petroleum E

California is spreading the word that overseas companies are welcome to do business in the state.

Purchase of nine United States Lines containerships and dockside box-handling gear by Sea-Land Servi

The West German banking industry reacted in a favorable but subdued manner last week to the federal

Spirits picked up in the U.S. machine tool industry, as orders in May reached the highest monthly le

Top Stories The maritime industry is increasing reliance on automation and computerization o

Disinvestment from South Africa has yet to bring an end to apartheid, as its advocates predicted, n

Nissan Plans to Open Arizona Test TrackTUCSON, Ariz. - Japanese automaker Nissan will open a

Industrialized countries increased financial aid to developing countries to a record $37 billion las

Today's cutthroat shipping environment points to a need for more flexibility and cooperation between

Pittston Co. said it will create a new air freight holding company to operate its Burlington Air Exp

Fri., June 26, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

A former key Canadian government civil servant has thought one jump ahead ofplans to reform

Eastern Airlines has been banished from the Magic Kingdom after 15 years as one of the gang with Mic

A majority of members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries favor setting a 16.6-mill

Quaker State Oil Refining Corp. will close its Ohio Valley Refinery, St. Marys, W.Va., at year end.<

Fuji Bank Ltd., Tokyo, named Hisaharu Kamiya senior economist of its research division in New York.<

Smaller overseas banks and those not wishing to meet stringent requirements for full entry into the

Another major nuclear accident is unavoidable, and there's a 50 percent chance of a core meltdown in

WORLD BANK KOREA - $150 million for low-income housing. A 15-year loan, at a variable intere

U.S. companies will have increased opportunities for exports to Mexico this year in several product