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When Nigeria's foreign minister, Tom Ikimi, visited The Journal of Commerce in July as part of an ef

Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait in the summer of 1990, Iraq's embargoed crude oil exports have remain

A South Asian trade pact got a buoyant send-off on Thursday, with senior officials from the region a

For years, shippers who move goods across the North Atlantic have pestered the trade's top shipping

Shell has taken out full-page advertisements in at least 10 daily broadsheet and tabloid newspapers,

Italian industrial sales surged at an annual rate of 17.6 percent in August and new orders advanced

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Federal Express Corp. and the Air Line Pilots Association are set to return to the negotiatingtable

Defying predictions to the con trary, non-OPEC nations are pro ducing so much crude oil that they ha

Liberia, which administers one of the largest ship registers in the world, failed last week to obtai

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

An all-out war has broken out among ports in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, leaving carriers at t

Friday, Nov. 17, 1995 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

1748 (Nov. 17, 1995) Previous day - 1730 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Germany and France last week reaffirmed their commitment to a European single currency, with France

The 15-nation European Union and the United States, which between them provide more than 90 percent

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

Hong Kong's interim legislature, to be installed by China when it recovers the British colony in 199

The European Commission on Thursday said its investigators have raided more than 20 petrochemical co

Federal agents raided a second cotton merchant in Memphis in a widening investigation of the cotton

The world's major oil companies are seeking additional members for the organization they founded 25

Charlie Lehman, a former vice president for governmental affairs for American Commercial Barge Lines

1730 (Nov. 16, 1995) Previous day - 1709 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Nov. 16, 1995 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The shipping division of Chevron Oil Corp., celebrating its centennial this month, is winning high p

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AUSTRALIAN PORTS CLOSED BY NATIONAL STRIKEAustralian ports stood still Thursday as waterfron

More than 40 days into the machinists' strike at Boeing Co., both sides are engaged in a kind of tre

The murder trial of six Ukrainian sailors who are accused of throwing overboard eight African stowaw

The Port of Portland, Ore., is thinking about turning over the operation of its containerterminal to

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SIDE PACT HOLDING UP CAR-HAUL AGREEMENTWASHINGTON - Teamsters ratified a new pact fo

A House panel advanced a bill Thursday to update the nation's railroad unemployment insurance system

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

China's demand for gas oil imports will remain stagnant well into the second half of December, trade

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 242.47 up 0.45

Nov. 16, 1995 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quota tions do not necessarily represen

International Petroleum Exchange Nov. 16, 1995Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

New York Mercantile Exchange - Nov. 16, 1995 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

VERA PAKTOR, PROMINENT IN LAKES SHIPPING, DIESCHICAGO - Vera Paktor, executive direc