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OPEC VOTES AGAINST PENALIZING QUOTA CHEATSVIENNA - A proposal to impose oil producti

KUWAIT TO INCREASE REFINING CAPACITYSINGAPORE - Kuwait Petroleum Co. expects to incr

REGIONAL BLOCS U.S.-Southeast Asia Relations: Economic and Political Trends. June 22. New Yo

The South African Krugerrand, once the best-selling gold coin before imports to the UnitedStates wer

Japan has vowed to support a U.S. draft resolution to be submitted to the U.N. Security Council call

The Baltic Freight Index is a daily indicator of world bulk shipping freight rate levels.

The German government agreed late last week to a measure that will make it easier for private compan

Hitachi Ltd. has disclosed plans to develop a parallel supercomputer using the PowerPC, a reduced in

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As German Chancellor Helmut Kohl basks in the glory of his party's victory in last week's European p

As U.S. oil tanker executives converged over the weekend on the sunny golf courses of Pebble Beach,

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June 17, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

XEROX WINS AWARD FOR CUSTOMS LINKBOSTON - Xerox Corp. has received an award for bein

"Juche," North Korea's guiding principle of self-reliance, explains both why the country's economy i

A group of experts in India has suggested to the government that private telephone networks, allowed

Two days of working-level talks on Japan's public procurement market in telecommunications ended Fri

South Korean container shipping lines face the prospect that many of their vessels will be activated

With its stranglehold over most of France's domestic routes loosening, state- owned Air Inter, a sub

A proposal to discourage rush-hour driving by charging motorists fees to use highways at peak period

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

In a move designed to bolster the port's finances, the Port of San Francisco last week sold $54.6 mi

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

BRAZILIAN CARRIER ADDS 3RD SHIP TO SERVICENEW YORK - Brazilian carrier Frota Amazoni

Mexican commerce officials have slapped trade penalties of nearly 500 percent on handbags and luggag

Provinces could get greater control over Canada's income-tax system if they buy into a revamped Gene

New York Mercantile Exchange - June 17, 1994 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High

OPEC's Secretariat has produced a range of confidential scenarios examining what will happen to oil

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The British government hopes to complete the privatization of the country's coal-mining industry by

There were three significant energy meetings in Stavanger, Norway, recently. First, the Internationa

India and China signed a trade protocol for fiscal 1994-95 (April-March), paving the way for India t

Shippers attracted to contract logistics by promises of lower expenses and more time toconcentrate o

An all-day strike and picketing by members of a marine engineers union against two WestCoast Shippin

When a major European port wanted an assessment of the trans-Atlantic trades before deciding on deve

Organizations representing carriers, shippers and transport workers are decrying efforts to close th

U.S. port authority directors, representatives of labor, ocean carriers and federal agencies appeale

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