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Consumption of fertilizer products into domestic markets was 4 percent less in August 1986 than in A

The custom chemicals manufacturing unit of Salsbury Laboratories will be known as Salsbury Chemicals

A new, up-scale package introduced at the International Bottled Water Show here at the weekend is ex

The No. 3 reactor at Chernobyl will come back on line next year, and plans to build a fifth and sixt

Union Carbide Corp. is realigning all of its specialties and services business units into three comp

Refiners, producing more heating oil to gear up for the winter heating season, are counting on lower

Westinghouse to Move Turbine OperationsWestinghouse Electric Corp. plans to relocate its com

The Venezuelan Senate called for a meeting of Latin American nations and major oil producers to disc

A valve failed and caused a two-hour leak at Brazil's only nuclear power plant, but the reactor was

A Michigan company has patented a process it hopes could generate electricity eventually through con

Fluor Agrees to Sell Drilling SubsidiaryIRVINE, Calif. - Fluor Corp. entered into an agreeme

Shell, the Dutch-British oil multinational, went on the offensive against critics who say the compan

Seatrain Lines' once mighty fleet of U.S.-flag oceangoing vessels will be reduced to three tankers i

The port of Galveston and Sea-Barge Group Inc. announced the inauguration of a container service bet

Professionals in the maritime industry who act as expert witnesses at trials and arbitration proceed

Total Soviet grain imports in 1986-87 (July-June) are forecast at 32 million metric tons, down from

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

Mexico Raises Price Of Vegetable OilThe official price of vegetable oil, a staple in Mexican

The Brazilian government, angry about a meat shortage that has lasted several months, seized 2,000 h

Longshoremen in New Orleans went on strike to protest overtime restrictions in their proposed new co

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission has criticized the Chicago Board of Trade for allegedly p

U.S. farmers, long vaunted as the pacesetters for world agricultural productivity and efficiency, ma

Colombia closed its coffee export registrations for October and Novemberbecause of delays in

The wife of a controversial Houston stevedoring executive claims the Port of Houston Authority is pu

The International Longshoreman's Association posted informational pickets in Freeport Friday, protes

Hugely increased crude oil and refined products transshipments boosted the volume of cargo handled a

The financial condition of the property and casualty insurance industry appears to be improving unev

Midwestern farmers, already suffering heavy losses in the depressed agricultural economy, are being

Manville Corp. said it has reached out-of-court agreements with five additional insurance carriers f

Pa. High Court Upholds Law on Liability LimitHARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court,

Manville Corp. said it reached a $29.75 million settlement with Marsh & McLennan Inc. and Marsh & Mc

Traffic volume has grown but accidents on state highways have dropped 9 percent since state police b

The state should have the power to set auto insurance rates, a critic of the auto insurance industry

A potential AIDS vaccine will be tested on humans for the first time at the newly created Institute

The port of San Francisco is hoping a new city attorney will solve a controversial port problem.

Stevens Technical Services Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y., won a $218,430 contract to perform maintenance and

Commission Extends Moratorium on PenaltiesThe Federal Maritime Commission extended until fur

The directors of Sea Containers Ltd. decided to suspend payment on dividends on the company's common

Marine Industries Ltd. confirmed it reached an agreement in principle topurchase the eastern

Italy retaliated against what it calls discrimination by Algeria in the two countries' bilateral shi