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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hit Ashland Oil Co. with the largest penalty ever under fed

On a muggy Texas night near the Mexican border, temperatures hover around 90 degrees as George Narva

The White House is close to agreeing to a package of actions against China that will attempt to main

The Paris Club group of creditor countries will devote its entire meeting the week of May 30 to nego

Spain posted a current-account deficit of 193.6 billion pesetas (US$1.4 billion) in March, compared

U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may form an association with Brazil's No. 1 retail chain, Loj

The European Union and Russia agreed in principle on a wide-ranging commercial accord aimed at creat

Colombia's coal mines, largely developed through direct foreign investment, are fuelingsales growth

Steel executives and a leading steel economist Tuesday painted a cautiously bullish outlook for the

CANADA MAKES PROGRESS IN INTERNAL TRADE FEUDWINNIPEG, Manitoba - Canada's federal an

Container traffic through Felixstowe is growing so rapidly that the port could reach full capacity n

May 11, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

An Army Corps of Engineers plan to alter the Missouri River's flow to restore the habitat of trouble

The largest U.S. international trade group is opposing a proposal to triple the vessel-tonnage fee t

A federal judge has thrown out an unusual lawsuit in which the leaders of a national union sued some

NORTHWEST AIRLINES CORP. (Minneapolis) - Paul F. Gibson was named director of investor relations and

International Petroleum Exchange May 11, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)_

The final decision on the Sakhalin-2 project, which provides for the development of the Piltun-Ostok

Wednesday May 11, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

in millions of dollars $57.5 Japan$24.7 China$12.1 Hong K

The Czech Republic and Estonia have won first prize in the East European economic and political refo

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +10.405/5 99.45/6 99.75/9

Two to three containerloads bound for overseas or traveling overland are hijacked every day in the N

1477 (May 11, 1994) Previous day - 1465 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

JORDAN EXPECTS ACCORD ON SHIP INSPECTIONSAMMAN, Jordan - Jordan said Wednesday it hoped with

Insisting that they not have been eliminated as potential buyers for the state shipping line Naviera

COAST GUARD FOUNDATION HONORS CROWLEY'S CHIEF SAN FRANCISCO - The Coast Guard Foundation, a

The French Parliament adopted this week new legislation aimed at the gradual liberalization of freig

Top Teamsters union officials will converge here Monday to seek a long-term resolution to the union'

U.S. inventories of crude oil fell 3.3 million barrels during the week ended May 6 compared with the

May 11, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

An emergency proposal to spill water over dams in the Columbia-Snake river system may cost the regio

The U.S. Agency for International Development has given Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. an $850,000 fede

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

Prominent shipbuilders, marine insurers, ship financiers and other industry experts are forecasting

MARYLAND PORT ADMINISTRATION (Baltimore) - Eugene R. "Gene" Bailey was named terminal operations man

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

GM Forms $100 Million Joint Venture in IndiaGeneral Motors Corp. and Hindustan Motors confir

A voice of dissent is emerging in the delicate coalition the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hav

Testifying in public for the first time since the grounding of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, f