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The Port of Houston Authority notified controversial non-union stevedore Hank Milam that his company

Last weekend the Netherlands put the final brick in a wall designed to keep a large chunk of the cou

The development of a synthetic hormone that boosts a cow's annual milk output by as much as 28 perce

The U.S. agricultural counselor said it was "highly significant" that U.S.S.R. reports repeatedly sa

The harvest of sugar beets in the U.S.S.R. may be running ahead of schedule in the west and north-ce

The world demand for oilmeals has not kept up with demand for vegetable oils, Oil World, the weekly

Suez Canal transit tolls for 1987 will be increased for small cargo vessels but will be reduced for

Despite a series of closed-door staff meetings, U.S. House and Senate conferees are finding trouble

The Canadian federal government granted local port corporation status to Saint John, making it the s

The Navy's Military Sealift Command contracted with Diversified Group Inc. of Houston to set up a be

S. African Firm Reports Higher Gold OutputGold Fields of South Africa Ltd. reported higher g

The Reagan administration policy against maritime industry subsidies is having disastrous consequenc

Some major non-conference operators are lobbying for entry into the conference fold having realized

An injunction limiting where longshoremen can picket at Port Everglades has been lifted, but Crowley

Neither Miami nor New Orleans have given up on Crowley Caribbean Transport, but the International L

The Maritime Administration revised and updated its Port Economic Impact Kit to include automated ap

Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd., the shipping and distribution services group, sent letters to shar

The Navy's Military Sealift Command awarded a $40,797,358 contract to Moss Point Marine of Escawtapa

Prudential Lines said it has not yet responded to an involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition and

Mersey Docks and Harbour Co., which operates the port of Liverpool, reported a pretax profit of 1.0

The House approved legislation to allow U.S. cruise lines to use foreign- built ships in coastal tra

Bermuda Container Line has lost its bid to set up a non-International Longshoremen's Association ter

The Houston Ship Channel remained closed for a second day Wednesday while firefighters continued the

Bank of Japan Governor Satoshi Sumita said authorities of the Japanese central bank see no immediate

Non-Panamax vessels - the kind that are too large to get through the Panama Canal - for the first ti

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

The Dow Jones transportation index rose 10.00 points to 828.13 Wednesday, nearing its record close o

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

The state-owned tin company of Indonesia plans to raise output sharply this year to 27,000 tons desp

Leading indexes compiled by the Center for International Business Cycle Research at Columbia Univers

BankAmerica Merger Could Mean Big LayoffsThe proposed merger of BankAmerica Corp. and First

Wednesday, October 8, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Canada's plastics fabricators shipped $8.7 billion worth of products in 1985, an increase of 11.4 pe

Anti-nuclear protesters blocked roads and disrupted traffic to protest the start-up of West Germany'

W.R. Grace & Co. said it cut 164 jobs in its corporate staff, a reduction of about 25 percent.

New England Hydro-Transmission Corp. says the New Hampshire attorney general has raised moot" financ

The Hope Creek nuclear power plant suspended start-up operations since Sept. 11 because of testing p

Chiron Corp. plans to form an equally owned joint venture with Ciba-Geigy Ltd., the world's fifth la

Peter Walker, U.K. energy secretary, told the Conservative Party's annual conference the government