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An American company will be first across the threshold as Pakistan reopens its door to foreign life

CIGNA SEES INCREASE IN OPERATING INCOMEPHILADELPHIA - Cigna Corp. Monday reported se

Lloyd's of London - the troubled insurance market - will announce measures to recover unpaid monies

Keeping the United Nations forces armed, fed and supplied with relief and humanitarian aid for the c

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending July 29, 1994.

Seattle's bizarre "bridge to nowhere" - a source of jokes, wild speculation and mystery book covers

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

Panama should avoid turning the Panama Canal into a profit-making venture when it takes control of t

The U.S. Navy has commissioned its first double-hulled oiler, the USNS Patuxent. The craft w

SUEZ CANAL AGENCY PLANS TOLL REDUCTIONSISMAILIA, Egypt - The Suez Canal Authority pl

Shipping lines could not have coped with the current boom in European exports to Asia if they had fo

These log and lumber movements were the largest recorded from port documents, during the two weeks e

Environmentalists got a first look Monday at a proposal to dump dioxin- contaminated harbor muck int

DOCK LABOR TALKS DRAG AT MARSEILLESPARIS - Stevedoring employers and dockworkers at

Publicly identifying ships that are allegedly deficient may prove counterproductive unless accompani

A management shake-up begun last summer has transformed the top management of Lykes Bros. Steamship

Malaysia's real gross domestic product grew an annualized 8.5 percent in the January-March period, c

Japan's socialist-led coalition government has decided 1 to restrain growth in defense and some oper

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

CONTINENTAL CORP. (New York) - Timothy P. Mitchell was named senior vice president and chief underwr

In Billion of Dollars 1993 1994Non-residential building $42.3 $44.7Residentia

With the summer sun baking the Texas countryside and the mercury in another climb over the 100-degre

The bad karma surrounding American President Lines' vessel President Washington continues to build u

House Democrats and Republicans are close to a compromise plan for extending President Clinton's spe

By the end of the year, there could be as many as four or five international insurance companies lic

Facing an uphill battle, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee leaders will try today to get

A pioneering joint venture between three of the world's top ocean carriers to operate dedicated trai

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +16.537/25 104.97/26 104.97/27

Ernest Connor, director of the New Hampshire State Port Authority, was named general manager and por

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

Friday, July 29, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Despite an unexpected rally against the Japanese yen late last week, the U.S.dollar is likel

South Korea posted its sixth consecutive monthly current account shortfall on Friday, but economists

Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. said its newly formed WC Canada Holdings Inc. subsidiary will

Russia's largest investment company admitted its virtual collapse Friday, telling investors it has n

Japanese construction orders in June were down 2.9 percent from a year earlier at 1.406 trillion yen

For the week ended July 23, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

China and major Western trading powers failed Friday to resolve their differences over Beijing's bid

The opening of a six-lane expressway in late July between Hong Kong and Guangzhou, capital of neighb

Increased revenue from rail operations was a major factor in the C$98 million (US$72.5 million) prof