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GENERAL NEWSFood and new car price increases boost consumer prices in November. Page 3A No

The United States' 1987 sugar import quota of 1 million tons will be disastrous for countries highly

The EC is scheduled to give USDA reports describing the modifications individual U.S. meat processin

Time is running out on efforts to avert a new clash between the United States and the European Commu

Malaysian Output Of Crude Palm Oil FallsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian crude palm oil pr

After 22 days of mistakes and problems, salvage crews Friday removed a wrecked Niagara River barge t

The European Community Commission said it will pay 2 million European currency units ($2.1 million)

Waterman Steamship Corp. asked the secretary of transportation to retain restrictions on subsidized

This largely rural city of 130,000 will ask the Virginia General Assembly next month to authorize th

The port of Oakland agreed to spend more than $200,000 to test and inspect port cranes being built i

Some said it was as exciting as watching paint dry. Others squandered vacation time to stand freezin

One of the biggest developments in the United States' ocean transportation business in recent years

Wharf-side rail connections and bold, expensive actions away from the waterfront will be needed for

The U.S. office of the Asia North American Eastbound Rate Agreement has hired three former United St

The Federal Maritime Commission ordered an end to provisions in marine terminal tariffs shifting the

The captain of a Soviet passenger liner that sank in the Black Sea after it was hit by a freighter f

Europe Container Terminus, the Rotterdam box-handling company, extended the deadline for trade union

Charges imposed by the Plaquemines, La., Port, Harbor & Terminal District are again before the Feder

After several years of discussion, Panama's plan to build a major container transshipment center aro

The city of Chesapeake is once again trying to avoid making annual payments of $160,000 to the U.S.

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

Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York says it is extending for another year its program paying an ex

U.S. and French spacecraft vanished in rolling balls of flame in 1986. The spectacular explosions se

Manville Corp.'s complex reorganization plan, which includes two multimilliondollar trusts t

The new "Taiwan flu" is spreading across the United States, federal health officials say. Th

Beneficial Corp. will sell most of its insurance group and its credit subsidiary in a major restruct

NJ Appeals Court Rules On Insolvent InsurersTRENTON, N.J. - Policyholders covered by an inso

Financial institutions in Canada have responded generally in positive fashion to the government's de

Disillusionment among U.S. semiconductor companies over the historic U.S.-Japanese semiconductor tra

The U.S. Maritime Administration and Prudential Lines Inc. are locked in a struggle over three Prude

The West Indies Shipping Corp., which has been subsidized by its Caribbean government owners, will h

Geneva-Based Airline Orders Four MD-87sMcDonnell Douglas Corp. said Compagnie De Transport A

A cargo of North Sea Brent crude for delivery in February changed hands at $17 a barrel on Friday, i

UK Official to Address Dinner for Oil TradersPeter Walker, the U.K.'s secretary of state for

Norway's monthly oil production reached a record level of 1.01 million barrels in November and was e

December 19, 1986 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

Mexico will continue to limit oil exports in hope that OPEC's newly lowered production quotas will s

Owners of the Seabrook nuclear power plant last week asked the federal government for permission to

Home heating oil marketers have their work cut out for them if they're going to regain the market sh

Peat Marwick International, a Toronto-based holding company for the U.S. accounting firm Peat Marwic