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Sri Lanka's new People's Alliance government plans to boost local industry to generate more jobs and

Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry has formally approved the palladium futures con

Forty feet under the Mississippi River's opaque waters, a 5-foot-high ledge of mud blocks the way of

The nearest ocean is three countries away and not a hint of a salty breeze ever makes it to this his

The U.S.-flag Great Lakes bulk fleets are still trailing their 1993 volume after a weather-beaten sl

Germany's biggest river port, Duisburg, plans to nearly double its container- handling capacity with

The Federal Maritime Commission wants carriers on the North Atlantic to explain how an eastbound cap

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Union Pacific Railroad intends to abandon its line between El Dorado and Yates Center but will conti

A slide in oil prices in recent weeks may have run its course, with a price rise likely in the mediu

Tuesday Aug. 23, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representi

The U.S. government's top official in Hong Kong has adopted a policy of actively promoting the inter

Northeast Indiana had the second-largest wheat harvest among the state's nine districts, according t

The Journal of Commerce will be 167 years old on Sept. 1. Those familiar with this newspaper

Legislation affecting maritime subsidies, the national highway system, new taxes on insurers, high-s

The Clinton administration, building on its year-old national export strategy, is about to release t

The U.S. dollar held firm to gains from previous trading zones benefitingfrom a stronger U.S

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Foreign fashion and designer apparel makers are the latest businesses to target the potentially huge

NORTH AMERICA Canadian High-Technology Show. Sept. 20-21. Toronto. Contact: Bern Rotman, New

The United States has selected a sparkling new nine-story glass tower with marble floors for its dip

Singapore is leading Asian ports in slashing marine bunker fuel prices and is starting to look compe

Usually the story is about what's going into containers. You know, inventive shipping-line sales peo

CORPS MISSOURI UNIT GETS NEW COMMANDEROMAHA, Neb. - The Army Corps of Engineers' Mis

Delta Air Lines chose a unit of Cigna Corp. to operate the health care center it is building in Atla

Delmond Won, a Hawaiian state regulator and maritime industry executive who won Senate approval last

HCC INSURANCE POSTS RISE IN NET INCOMEHOUSTON - Net income reported by HCC Insurance

INTEGON CORP. (Winston-Salem, N.C.) - Jim Porcari was named vice president of claims, succeeding Cha

CARDINAL FREIGHT OPENS INTERMODAL SUBSIDIARYCONCORD, N.C. - Cardinal Freight Carrier

The furor in Congress over extending President Clinton's special trade- negotiating authority has th

Delta Air Lines and AT&T Global Information Solutions announced Tuesday that they have agreed in pri

As American and other companies spur Vietnam's commercial development, they are discovering that pro

RUBLE RECOVERS FROM RECORD LOWMOSCOW - The ruble recovered from record lows on the M

The Hong Kong government welcomed as significant the decision of the World Bank and International Mo

Negotiations between the United Transportation Union and the Soo Line Railroad resumed Tuesday while

American companies slogging away in China's offshore oil industry got a boost with a US$50 million l

Ford Motor Co. said it will invest $40 million in a new technology center in Yokohama, Japan, that w

The fired president of Nigeria's white-collar oil workers union Pengassan said Tuesday that members

As of Aug. 23, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

Chicago Board of Trade members will vote Sept. 19 on a proposal by their former chairman, Leslie Ros