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A labor union providing workers for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has called for reversal of a governmen

WTO MINISTERS PLANTO MEET IN GENEVAGENEVA - The ruling General Council of the World Trade Or

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts have agreed to a state regulators' oversight intended to

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. has joined with Magsaysay Lines Inc. to form a company that will recruit an

John Norbert Tierney, a key figure in the West Coast expansion of Sea-Land Service Inc. and founder

The Nafta status report that President Clinton will deliver to Congress next week is sure to paint a

SHIPSNEW SAFETY RULESFOR PASSENGER SHIPSLONDON - New rules to improve the sa

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It was a lovely, wind-swept Saturday in May, and all that is youth was not wasted on young people.

Crowley American Transport and freight forwarder OAC Shipping Co. are celebrating the successful tra

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Closing his campaign in this colonial city that played a spark-plug role in both Mexico's independen

The U.S dollar rose to a three-year high of 1.7463 Deutsche marks Monday, but was little changed aga

Canada said Monday it lost an appeal at the World Trade Organization on taxes it imposes on Canadian

PEMEX SUBSIDIARYFORMALLY INCORPORATEDMEXICO CITY - Petroleos Mexicanos' (Pemex) petrochemica

Amtrak officials gave a lukewarm reception to a recent report by a 13-member congressional commissio

U.S. trade policy today is being pulled in two directions.On one side are the purest of free

A fundamental plank of Hong Kong's change of sovereignty is the latitude promised by Beijing in mone

The old-fashioned world of Protection and Indemnity Clubs that insure shipowners' and operators' lia

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

MEXICO EXTENDS PACTWITH GUATEMALAMEXICO CITY - Mexico has extended its trade accord with Gua

June 30, 1997This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals and the e

Rhode Island's landmark electric deregulation plan is scheduled to take effect this week, but compan

ANIXTER, EMERY RENEWTWO-YEAR AGREEMENTSKOKIE, Ill. - Anixter Inc. renewed a two-year contrac

1320 (June 30, 1997) Previous day - 1311The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Hundreds of friends, family members and associates turned out Thursday to bid farewell to Leo Brien,

As Hong Kong reflects on its impressive success, it is also taking pause to confront one problem tha

ZURICH-AMERICAN PLANSWASHINGTON OPERATIONWASHINGTON - The Zurich-American Insurance Group's

It may only be July, but it's Christmas in Asia.Some of the lowest ocean rates in recent mem

Commercial QuantityAluminum ingots_ $1,500-$1,600 per ton lo

VENEZUELAN OIL INDUSTRYSEEKS FURTHER FINANCINGCARACAS, Venezuela - PDVSA affiliate Corpoven

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SOYBEAN-BASED CRAYONSCOLOR FARMERS' HOPESEAST LANSING, Mich. - Soybean farmers are seeing re

The executives at Prince Castle Inc., a manufacturer of fast-food service equipment, know the import

Anticipating that high demand in Asia for its computers will continue, Digital Equipment Corp. is no

There's a new addiction on the street. It's not drug or alcohol related. There's nowhere to go to dr

UPS UNVEILS REUSABLEOVERNIGHT ENVELOPEATLANTA - United Parcel Service announced what is says

The two ferry companies that compete on the shortest sea crossings between England and the Continent

The Department of Transportation has tentatively granted immunity from antitrust laws to an alliance