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The port of Everett is pursuing its own ambitious plan for harbor development now that the Navy appe

GENERAL NEWSIndustrial production rose in August but is still down from the start of 1986. P

Pennwalt Corp. announced the acquisition of Desarrolo Quimica Industrial S.A. (Dequisa), a dithiocar

Tuesday, September 16, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Video Presentation Set On Port of Long BeachLONG BEACH, Calif. - The premiere showing of a t

The great teak forests are decimated, once-shimmering beaches are awash in trash and angular concret

Attorneys for a fired FBI agent accused of lying during an investigation of Teamsters President Jack

India will write off accumulated losses of public units administered by the newly created Departmen

U.S. agricultural exports to South Asia are expected to drop 20 percent in fiscal 1987 to $414 milli

Singapore wants to become a major oil trading, distribution and storage center in southeast Asia, Ed

China and Pakistan signed an agreement for extensive cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear ener

Norway will keep its promise to cut back North Sea crude oil production only if OPEC agrees to a per

Eight years after one of the world's largest oil spills from a tanker, lawyers, fishermen and mayors

A Conference Board analysis of the tax reform bill claims tax cuts in the bill would support imports

Legislation imposing the recommendations of a presidential emergency board affecting the Maine Centr

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

Arnold Chait is still refusing to let Ambassador Insurance Co. die. Vermont Insurance Commis

American Re-Insurance Corp. is moving its headquarters to Princeton, N.J., after 58 years in New Yor

Japan's financially ailing Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Co., one of the country's six largest shipp

The first U.S. Navy warship to be armed with the new MK41 Vertical Launching (missile) System, the U

Hershey Foods Corp. and Dietrich Corp. announced that they have entered into a purchase and sale ag

Himont USA Raises PricesOf PolymersHimont U.S.A. Inc. is raising its price of copoly

A South Korean firm completed building work on Saudi Arabia's first plant for polyvinyl chloride and

Japan will transfer more technology to Taiwan and, taking advantage of the stronger yen, increase it

The following are the results of Monday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

The average freight shipment hauled by trucking companies is worth much less a pound than many cargo

Fuji Xerox Corp. of Japan, a joint venture between Tokyo-based Fuji Photo Film Co. and a London subs

Exports and re-exports to China regained their upward momentum in July after a dip caused by tighter

Italy's wholesale prices in July fell 0.8 percent from the previous month, but declined by only 2.2

AIR CARGO DHL CORP. (Redwood City, Calif.) - Charles A. Lynch was named chairman and chief e

Washington is beginning to listen to complaints of Florida's export community concerning pre-shipmen

Inventories held by U.S. businesses, led by a big jump in unsold cars, rose 0.4 percent in July whil

Southland Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA signed a definitive agreement for Southland to sell ha

Several major utilities will be asking coal suppliers in the coming weeks to submit bids for 1987.

GAO Asked to Examine Pollution in BayA Sacramento area congressman asked the General Account

Two Japanese ocean rate-making conferences voted to postpone until after Sept. 30 the implementation

Hundreds of business executives traveled from all over the Caribbean to Puerto Rico this month for t

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

A recent federal-provincial government joint study called for lower transportation costs to boost t

A federal court judge ruled West Coast ports will not receive spent nuclear fuel rods until a proper