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The port of Portland's fiscal year, which ended June 30, was worse than previously announced, and th

Taiwan's foreign reserves hit a record US$40 billion, up from US$22.2 billion at the end of last yea

Japan's point man on international trade has told his country's leading corporations to import more

Sumitomo Rubber Plans Buy-out of Dunlop TireSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. intends to purc

The port of Seattle shouldn't raise taxes when the shipping industry is not expanding, a port-watchd

Railcars continue to be in short supply on some routes in the Midwest where the heavy grain harvest

Task Force Will Probe Demands on TruckersAmerican Trucking Associations and the National Ind

Japanese Airline Set To Purchase 2 DC-10sToa Domestic Airlines Co., Japan's third biggest ca

AEI Reports TurnaroundDARIEN, Conn. - Air Express International reported third quarter net i

Shippers seem generally pleased by a new Interstate Commerce Commission policy for handling disputes

U.S. immigration and customs laws must be changed before the United States and Canada can consider f

Taiwan's foreign reserves hit a record US$40 billion, up from US$22.2 billion at the end of last yea

An Association of Southeast Asian Nations common market would bring about greater economic cooperat

Japan's point man on international trade has told his country's leading corporations to import more

THE SNOW IS SPECIAL IN JAPAN: That's one of the reasons allegedly being offered by the quasi-governm

Sumitomo Rubber Plans Buy-out of Dunlop TireSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. intends to purc

Plans to Visit Mexico WASHINGTON - Mikhail Gorbachev plans to visit Mexico and several other

In the 1960s, this and other Indian ports were jammed with grain ships unloading emergency food sent

The demise of the world trade unit of Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck & Co. is no cause for embarrassme

INSURANCE BLUE CROSS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia) - Paula H.J. Cholmondeley was hi

Sales of new single-family homes in the United States increased 10.6 percent in September to a seaso

Northwest Marine Iron Works Inc., a Portland, Ore., shipyard employing 1,000 people, filed for reor

The government should help support a well-financed effort to promote the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Se

Laurence Pathy, president and chief executive of Montreal-based Fednav Ltd., announced a restructuri

U.S.-flag passenger vessel operations, nearly dormant for many years, are staging a revival in the f

Squibb Corp.'s board authorized it to repurchase from time to time up to 1 million shares of Squibb'

Himont AnnouncesPrice MoveHimont U.S.A. Inc., Wilmington, Del., announced a 5-cent-a

Takeda USA Raises PricesOn VitaminsTakeda USA is raising its prices on several bulk

Ocean Transport & Trading PLC, the British shipping and distribution group that is the target of a t

An Environmental Protection Agency proposal to expand the test procedure used to identify hazardous

IGENE Biotechnology Inc. formed a joint venture with Biosoph Laboratories SARL, Le Pecq, France, to

National Association of Export Companies. Seminar on pre-shipment inspections followed by luncheon.

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC reported third-quarter earnings of $223 million, up from $151 milli

The United States imported more than 573,000 head of cattle from Mexico during the first eight month

Grace Ventures Corp., the venture capital subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., announced that it had inve

Ethyl Corp., the only major U.S. manufacturer of the active ingredient in ibuprofen pain-relievers,

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. is operating a new specialty/industrial gas facility near Raleigh, N

Ex-German Official Dies FRANKFURT, West Germany - The first woman to hold a minister's post

The value of permits issued for construction in the nation's 202 biggest cities rose 4.6 percent in

YOU CAN PAY US NOW or you can pay us later. That's the message coming from the steel industry as th