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A bill changing U.S. policy on cost-sharing for dredging projects and authorizing more than $618 mil

The Port of Madras will be dedicated to container traffic, with general goods shifted to a new facil

Japan Air Lines, which has cut its weekly trans-Pacific freighter capacity by 25 percent since April

Recently introduced customs documentation software should speed the processing of forms required to

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 30, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

General Electric Co. and eight Japanese companies are jointly developing a new light-water reactor,

Sept. 30, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represen

The lifting of a ban on flexible and more cost-effective derivatives in Japan offers another way to

TALKS BREAK DOWN AT PORT OF MARSEILLESPARIS - Talks between dock workers and stevedo

Safety experts in Finland Friday blamed an open bow door for the sinking of the Estonia ferry as res

Port privatization contains no drawbacks and huge opportunities in terms of productivity and efficie

Friday, Sept. 30, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The latest in vessel designs, including a compact Panamax ship - a mammoth containership with a capa

ATLAS ADDS 747-200S TO ITS CARGO FLEETGOLDEN, Colo. - Atlas Air, an all-cargo carrie

JAPAN ASKS EU TO BOOST ITS AUTO QUOTA IN '94TOKYO - Japan has asked the European Uni

Japan's unemployment rate remained stuck at around 3 percent in August, though the number of people

Unable to raise rates or reduce costs, Burlington Northern Railroad has quietly pulled the plug on P

Sept. 30, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

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The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 230.67 off 0.21

Mexico's port privatization push has started to pay off with greater steamship activity along the Pa

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The Port of New York and New Jersey is holding onto its ranking as the busiest containerport on the

The House gave its approval late Friday to a largely symbolic bill that would give U.S. trade negoti

(1) DAILY INDEX * Annual Smoothed percent +19.749/26 108.29/27 107.79/

U.S. opponents of a pending world trade agreement may have been handed a new weapon Friday when an i

Australia's current account deficit widened to a 4 1/2-year high in August, casting a shadow over t

CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP. (Philadelphia) - Edwin G. Motte Jr. was appointed general manager of transpo

Insurance agents and brokers have been less caught up in the "urge to merge" over the last four to f

The system of licensing insurance agents and brokers in the United States is inefficient, costly and

ALASKA PIPELINE AUDIT FINDS 4,920 PROBLEMSANCHORAGE - A total of 4,920 management, o

Julian Valtierra Segovia last year bought a new Volkswagen Jetta for $19,500. He does not know the i

Officials and businesses in India are mounting an aggressive effort to calm what they see as overblo

A federal judge has declared Oregon the winner in a trade dispute over apple- grading standards.

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China is reducing steel output in a further bid to rein in mounting stockpiles. In the third

Sept. 30, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

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

Drury Davis, president of Bain Hogg Group's CIA Midwest operation in Chicago, wonders how a trade an

TIRE FACILITY OPENS AT PORT OF PORTLAND, ORE.PORTLAND, Ore. - Northwest Tire Factory