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Nerco Unit Names AdamsPresidentPORTLAND, Ore. - Nerco Inc. said Ramesh Malhotra res

Pacific Rim trade and business interests will have a major new West Coast- based bank to deal with i

The final shape of the reorganized Jardine Matheson trading and property empire is clear with the di

Overland Express Inc. said Gary L. Eyler will join the company as chairman and chief executive offic

GENERAL NEWS The annual budget targets are gaining support. Page 2AThe Big Three auto sales

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III said he is pleased by the initial reaction in currency markets

Tax Reform in Bonn BONN, West Germany - The three parties forming the West German coalition

BASF to Build Plant In Wyandotte, Mich.BASF Corp. is strengthening its U.S. investment in en

Dravo Wins Contract For Cogeneration PlantDravo Engineering Cos. was awarded a contract to e

An Italian engineering group received a contract to build two 500-megawatt coal-fired boilers for an

Allocations of the state's cheap hydroelectric power are equivalent to tax breaks for private indus

Peroxydicarbonate Prices Rise The Lucidol Division of Pennwalt Corp. announced it will incre

New York State Electric & Gas Corp. applied for a 4 percent rate increase to help pay the company's

Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc., Tampa, Fla., awarded a spot market contract to Pyro Mining Co.

A prototype of malfunctioning safety valves at the Nine Mile Point 2 nuclear power plant has passed

Australia is stepping up pressure on Japan to resist demands to import more coal from the United Sta

The Lubrizol Corp. reported fourth quarter net income of $13.4 million, or 34 cents a share, up from

Large railroads will find themselves edging toward Interstate CommerceCommission revenue ade

Truckers Protest Rome Speed LimitsTruckers caused widespread traffic jams when they parked t

China is accelerating its push into petrochemicals with two recently announced projects worth a tota

Thailand has asked a Japanese firm to study the possibility of restoring the infamous Death Railway,

A Thai plan to restore the Death Railway," during whose World War II construction by the Japanese at

Delegates to the Soviet Trade Union Congress said their country's labor organizations are not doing

Poland, the black sheep of the Soviet bloc since the crackdown on the Solidarity trade union movemen

UN Efficiency Eyed TOKYO - The United Nations must become more efficient and more useful, th

Medhi Navab, Iran's vice minister for economic affairs, arrived in Paris this week to resume negotia

Treasury Secretary James Baker took a relatively optimistic view of Brazil's decision to stop paying

The city's press wars began a new round with the announcement that two new dailies would appear, cre

Foreign exchange reserves controlled by China's treasury have declined by about one-third to $1.5 bi

Tentative Date Set For Seaway ReopeningApril 1 has been set as the target date for reopening

GENERAL NEWS The annual budget targets are gaining support. Page 2AThe Big Three auto sales

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. reported fourth quarter net income rose to $8.2 million, or 32 cents

Mario, a 24-year-old hotel worker in the Philippines hoping to advance in the trade, was delighted w

Congress and the Reagan administration appear to be traveling down the same road toward liberalizing

the 19-member crew of a weather-battered Filipino fishing vessel abandoned ship Tuesday morning abou

The Spanish roll-on roll-off vessel Arroyofrio Uno, inbound to the Dartford International Ferry Term

Freight rates for supertankers in the Persian Gulf have crashed by 25 percent in the past two weeks

Profitability for barge companies in the Upper Mississippi River area will remain weak, at least for

Ford Motor Co. says legislation, and not an outright ban, would satisfy ocean carriers' concerns abo

The Soviet Union has diverted from its 15 year-old practice of importing only soybeans to fill short