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Some of the world's most safety-conscious oil companies with comprehensive ship-vetting procedures r

PHILIPPINE OFFICIAL BACKS US SUPPLY DEALMANILA, Philippines - The Philippines would

Vowing to deliver early on campaign promises, Texas Republican Governor-elect George W. Bush says he

If Niccolo Machiavelli were alive today, he would forsake Italian politicians for America's railroad

Watkins Motor Lines Inc. has become the second in what will likely be a parade of less-than-truckloa

INDIA, BRITISH GAS TO EXPLORE OFF EGYPTLONDON - India's state-run oil and natural ga

New York Mercantile Exchange - Nov. 22, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

Aetna International Inc. is planning a joint insurance venture in Shanghai, Chinese sources said, an

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE (New York) - Jon L. Levy was named vice president of the insurance company's L

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

Preliminary evaluations show that Florida's main sugar cane regions took quite a beating from Tropic

The federal government has significantly overstated the success of its $20 billion effort to halt so

The International Sugar Organization Tuesday revised the 1994-95 (October- September) world sugar de

The U.S. dollar was narrowly mixed in quiet trading Monday after rising in earlier European trading.

Russia's high-tech Polyot aerospace group and Lockheed Corp. held talks last week to explore prospec

M.S. Carriers, one of the largest truckload carriers in the north-south trade, has officially been a

When the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated interstate trucking, Southwestern Motor Transport was

For the first time in its 46-year history, Israel will allow imports of non- kosher meat products su

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index rose to another new high of 110.5, up 0.2 points from

The Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. survived the guns-to-buttershift after World Wa

For decades, Japanese entrepreneurs have grown rich by making things smaller. But a consortium of Ja

The top world trade official, Peter Sutherland, in a last-ditch attempt to sway political opinions i

The Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth-largest containerport, will have to significantly cut its ex

The world price of aluminum rose to $2,000 a metric ton Monday, a level unseen since September 1990,

Costs of factory labor in South Korea now outstrip those in Britain and are a potential time bomb wh

British-based Standard Chartered Bank PLC plans to shift its regional headquarters to Shanghai from

FOUNDER OF HVIDE MARINE BUYS S. FLA. STEVEDOREFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Hans J. Hvide

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The U.S. deficit in trade and other current-account transactions next year will continue to widen de

PASSENGER RAILROADS GAIN LOBBYING SUPPORTWASHINGTON - Amtrak and other passenger rai

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +20.0211/15 109.611/16 110.111

Journal of Commerce Editor Scott Bosley has been named publisher of the Post- Tribune in Gary, Ind.<

Administrative workers at United Parcel Service facilities in Kansas City, Mo., who were targeted by

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 232.72 off 0.93 wh

Insurance, legal and engineering companies looking to profit from the cleanup of the U.S.-Mexican bo

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending Nov. 18, 1994.

1862 (Nov. 21, 1994) Previous day - 1855 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Matson Navigation Inc., one of two principal ocean carriers in the U.S.-Hawaii trade, said it will i

Japanese oil companies are moving into the Chinese engine lubricant market as it continues to expand

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