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The South Carolina State Ports Authority had one of its best quarters everfrom July to Septe

The index of freight rates for large bulk carriers hit a new high Monday as demand for bulk commodit

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

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. is scrapping most of its aging fleet of breakbulk freighters by July 1995

Japan's government is scheduled today to formally ratify a $60 billion, six- year farm aid package d

More than 60,000 foreign trademarks are among the 440,000 registered in China and will be granted "s

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

METAL CONTAINERS Tin cans. Contact: CMB Packaging Singapore Ltd., 1120 Woodlands Road, Singa

The Indian government, worried by a steady increase in economic crime, will set up a special federal

The Norwegian shipping group Leif Hoegh & Co. A/S downgraded its full-year profit forecast because o

Oct. 24, 1994 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%

A joint venture between an Indonesian tycoon and foreign investors will build a $32 billion oil refi

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

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised interest rates on Monday for the second time in less than

Two Indonesian companies run by children of the country's president have won contracts for container

For the week ended Oct. 15, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

"The combination of economic growth in the United States and improving business elsewhere is hardly

The Cuban government will open the sugar industry to foreign investment, a government source said Mo

"There are lies, damned lies and church statistics." _ DisraeliMore than 90 percent of U.S.

Oil workers in India's state-run ONGC Ltd., the country's biggest oil exploration company, called of

As of Oct. 24, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Scientists have developed a new breed of "super rice" that they claim can produce 25 percent more gr

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +16.5610/18 107.410/19 107.510

The competition to elect a chief to oversee global trade has hardened into three regional camps - th

General Motors Corp. said last week its Janesville, Wis., truck assembly plant began building and sh

Natural-gas prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange turned sharply higher Monday, with the expiri

A Mexican subsidiary of the Liberty Mutual Group has started selling in Mexico software packages tha

A potentially nasty row between Mexico and Chile has been skirted after Mexican commerce officials l

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 231.63 off 2.28 wh

The parent company of Matson Navigation said the carrier's new Pacific Coast Shuttle service has att

Five months after its final hearing on the incident, the National Transportation Safety Board has qu

Contship Containerlines Ltd. is adding a third ship to its service between the Mediterranean and the

Inside the Washington Beltway, even the most dramatic firings are painted as orderly, voluntary resi

The Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement will announce, possibly this week, a general rate increase

Shippers in the Midwest overwhelmingly prefer using short-line railroads to Class 1 railroads, accor

A recently reported incident of contamination of ice cream is once again casting an unwelcome spotli

The White House is preparing to unveil in the next two weeks a long-promised set of human rights pri

Continental Airlines said it has received final approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation

Norwegian crude oil output rose by 21.7 percent in September from August levels, with a total averag