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Jordan is seeking to allay fears that the reopening of the Iraqi port of UmQasr would hit im

After several months of comparative calm, incidents of piracy appear to be picking up in the South C

EU REJECTS DILUTION OF MARITIME DRAFT LAWBRUSSELS - The European Commission, the EU'

Ferries and excursion boats currently can ply the waterways here with only one pilot aboard, but a r

Negotiators from nearly 20 countries will meet here starting today for a week of talks that represen

The European Commission sharply criticized attacks on its trade policies by U.S. Trade Representativ

The Taiwan government's highest watchdog body formally censured the central bank on Wednesday for th

The U.S. dollar was mixed Wednesday, softening slightly and then rebounding, on the latest Federal R

Foreign equity investments in the Philippines were 3.3 billion pesos (US$119 million) in the first t

The head of one of Japan's largest shipbuilders said the nation's shipbuilding industry remains stro

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES DROPS ADVERTISING FIRMGreenstone Roberts Advertising said Royal Cari

The Maritime Administration is eager to use $144 million available in ship construction loan-guarant

Swiss Bank Corp., one of the country's largest bank, Wednesday said net profit in 1993 was 1.365 mil

A slump in new ordering activity continues to push down the price of supertankers. The cost

Hyundai Merchant Marine, a rapidly growing South Korean container line, says its new string of ships

LOUISIANA BARGE FIRM SETTLES FMC CHARGESWASHINGTON - Bordelon Bros. Towing Co., of L

With less than a month remaining before U.S. Customs plans to centralize its northern New Jersey ins

The Port of Houston is paying the developer of an electronic navigation system to market the system

The European Union has failed to narrow its differences over a global accord outlawing shipyard subs

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Demonstrators against the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba cleared more than 150 tons of humanitarian ai

Honduras is banking on diversifying - both its export products and its export markets - to build up

Mar. 9, 1994 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Wednesday Mar. 9, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Crude petroleum inventories rose by 8.5 million barrels during the week ended Mar. 4 compared with t

America's railroads, slowed by winter storms in January, have returned to the fast track with carloa

Indonesia will soon move to buy April cargoes of distillate fuel oil, which will total more than 2 m

FRANCE, 2 COMPANIES PLAN ADDITIVE REFINERIESPARIS - French Farm Minister Jean Puech

Iran reluctantly will go along with a rollover of OPEC's 24.52 million- barrel-a-day ceiling into th

In the inky gloom on the ocean floor, Neil Francis gingerly guides a drill bit into a small hole in

Four oil companies filed a petition asking the California Superior Court in Sacramento to set aside

The Australian government's leading indicator of employment rose in January, the Department of Emplo

RECYCLED CONVERTERS SEEN RISING IN EUROPEFRANKFURT, Germany - The volume of European used-ca

Booming Southeast Asian economies with expanding construction, telecommunication, packaging and elec

Strong corn prices amid the tightest U.S. stocks in nearly 20 years and a 0 percent set-aside will b

China's overhanging supply of alumina and possible price cuts by domestic producers likely will put

Mar. 9, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Silver prices have a better chance than gold of rising this year, David Pryde, managing director for

A threatened lawsuit over plans to upgrade Logan International Airport has sparked controversy betwe

Inventories of U.S. wholesale merchants posted their biggest decline in nearly three years, falling