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The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Monday shut down the nation's top two cont

The French Mediterranean Port of Marseilles registered record container traffic last year, reversing

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Thailand's insurance industry is awaiting a wave of new capacity that may turn into a deluge if the

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The trucking industry, having adapted to laws mandating alcohol and drug testing programs and hours

While urging new talks on a long-term balanced budget, President Clinton sent Congress a fiscal 1997

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. said Monday it will introduce March 4 a low-priced teleconferen

The following business missions are scheduled for the coming months. The Journal of Commerce assumes

China's resource sector is the latest to adopt the notion that quality pays more dividends than quan

US ASKS JAPAN TO HELP SEND OIL TO NORTH KOREATOKYO - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter

The oil industry's share of U.S. energy consumption dropped last year to its lowest level in 45 year

JAPANESE PLANTS IN US INCREASED BY 15 IN '95Japanese manufacturing plants in the United Stat

Norway's industrial output rose 2.1 percent in December 1995 from November on a seasonally adjusted

Western National Corp. announced a reduced profit for the year and a loss for the fourth quarter.

The challenge, some would say burden, of chairing the embattled Federal Maritime Commission now rest

The Agriculture Department is moving forward with plans to lift an 81-year- old ban on imports of Me

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

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Northeastern Jilin province said it plans to invest 11 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) during 1996-2000

France has one of the toughest laws in the world against counterfeit goods, but using it has proved

Lloyd's of London has reportedly agreed to sell its famous glass and steel headquarters to a German

The following fuel oil prices are for the week ending Jan. 31, 1996, as supplied by the bunker fuel

European shipowners are pressing ahead with sea trials involving just one officer on the bridge, day

Staten Island, New York City's often ignored borough, is recommending that its North Shore Railroad

Two Dominican telecommunications companies have joined AT&T Corp. in a venture to construct a $30 mi

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JAPAN'S DEPENDENCE ON MIDEAST OIL GROWSJapan's dependency on Middle Eastern oil has risen to

South Korea said Monday the United States had attempted to allay its fears of any U.S. deal behind i

As U.N. diplomats meet in New York today to discuss plans that would allow Iraqi oil to re-enter wor

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown attacked the Republican Congress as ''xenophobic," blamed it for blocki

Efforts by the auto insurance industry to reduce the large amounts it pays out to defend policyholde

For the week ended Jan. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The Port of Seattle, which owns and operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, said it has achie

Chinese financial officials have set ambitious targets for financial reforms in 1996, which include

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Kentucky Fried Chicken reopened its restaurant in southern Bangalore as the government arrested the