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Rescue officials called off a search Friday for three missing crewmen from an Icelandic freighter th

Iran-US Negotiations THE HAGUE, Netherlands - U.S. and Iranian officials meet today to negot

Entrepreneurs in this English-speaking Caribbean republic are still rejoicing over the recent electi

Friday, Dec. 26, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Trinova Unit CompletesIPC PurchaseMAUMEE, Ohio - Sterling Engineered Products Inc.,

Market for Gum Rosins FirmsThe market for U.S. gum rosins is reported to be firming.

Steelmakers in Brazil could outdo Japanese mills in staking out further reductions in the price of c

Officials proposing to cut the workweek from 48 to 40 hours say they expect to run into resistance i

Troubled dairy operator Knudsen Corp. on Friday said it agreed to sell its Texas and Louisiana opera

The effort to decide whether to automate the Federal Maritime Commission's overburdened paper tariff

Backers of multiyear highway funding legislation this week will launch their campaign for early acti

A syndicate of seven Japanese banks has agreed to provide 160 billion yen in loans to three affiliat

The U.S. dollar continued its week-long decline Friday, testing a six-year low against the deutsche

Distrigas of Massachusetts Corp. received a shipment of liquefied natural gas when the British-regis

Saudi King Appoints Minister of PetroleumRIYADH, Saudi Arabia - King Fahd issued a royal dec

Faced with plummeting earnings in 1986, Elf Gabon, the offshoot of France's state-controlled Elf Aqu

Ford Motor Co.'s top officials predicted 1987 U.S. motor vehicle sales of 15 million units, down sli

National Starch and Chemical Corp. announced the acquisition of Bassi Marchini & C. SpA, an industri

Samples of coffee mugs, umbrellas and wristwatches fill his office, but what Herbert A. Gold really

The undisputed dean of the maritime bartenders and a legend in the industry was a man named Spiros L

ISS International Buys Assets of Macke FirmISS International Service System Inc. said it con

GENERAL NEWSTurbulence, the theme of the steel industry over the last decade, is still the w

The Maryland Port Administration has awarded the International Terminal Operating Corp. (ITO) exclus

The Icelandic coast guard is contending in federal lawsuits that a faulty cargo door in a Sikorsky h

. . . DIVIDED WE FALL: Successful port operations hinge on close cooperation between the public

A full-time program executive should be appointed to oversee New York's hazardous waste site cleanup

U.S. drivers reaped a windfall savings of more than $25.5 billion this year while the world's oil pr

Orders for U.S. machine tools plunged 26.3 percent in November to $132.7 million, reversing a strong

There's one in every port. Every port of any size seems to have some place where maritime ty

Senn Trucking Planning To Appeal ICC DecisionSenn Trucking probably will appeal an Interstat

Surprisingly few firms have become truck brokers in California despite a new law encouraging broker

Western Canada's foremost academic in the transportation field is warning of political interference,

The official Tass news agency reported several economic indicators at the weekend, including better-

A British tanker ran onto a rock off the east coast of Iceland early Friday, and sank, killing all 1

While some insurance people may be uneasy under the roving eye of a Congress still looking for more

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

The Soviet Union's first solar power station went into commercial service in the Ukraine, the Tass n

A Costa Rican furniture maker used the United States' Caribbean investment program to sell overseas

Endangered by a dramatically dwindling domestic market, oil field equipment makers are expanding the

Harry Kindya, head bartender at the Downtown Athletic Club, has a most unusual way of judging the he