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Maritime safety experts will be turning their attention Wednesday to the ''human factor" in maritime

SPILL COULD WORSEN AT FRANK FACILITY IN NJNEW YORK - Government officials Monday wer

The London-based brokerage firm of Nicholson Leslie BankAssure expects to file Wednesday its latest

UPS LOSES MILLIONS FROM WEATHER, QUAKEATLANTA - United Parcel Service estimated that

BDP International Inc. has a new joint venture called BDP Asia Pacific Ltd. in Hong Kong with Havi G

Growing domestic prices for petroleum products may force Russia to import products in February, a Fu

New Asian oil refineries could provide some challenge to Singapore this year, but its refiners will

The campaign by Omani Oil Minister Said al-Shanfari to win support for output cuts by non-OPEC count

A presidential commission of private sector advisers has endorsed the Uruguay Round world trade pact

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

A tanker group is warning laden tankers to stay away from the channel between the west coast of Scot

In a blow to U.S.-British aviation relations, U.S. officials last week refused to meet with British

HOW TO USE: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

The Supreme Court Monday settled a group of important transport cases, including the reaffirming of

Foreign ventures in China will get more official loans this year, but they also may face tighter con

CONTSHIP CONTAINERLINES INC. (Virginia Beach, Va.) - Cecilia Battistello, currently managing directo

Labor costs for U.S. companies doing business in China rose an average of 17 percent last year but r

Kuwaiti business leaders are scheduled to visit India in March to discuss economic cooperation, an I

CSX Intermodal and Illinois Central Railroad have signed an agreement allowing the unit of CSX Corp.

Russia produced 617.35 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 1993, down 3.6 percent from 640.41 bil

World crude oil prices are expected to be relatively steady in the coming week, underpinned by recen

Big Rivers Electric Corp. has filed a lawsuit saying that several coal supply contracts with Costain

Sunday's hastily arranged meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and Japan's Prime Mi

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

S. KOREA TRADE GROUP SAID TO SEEK DEVALUATIONSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's won should b

Jan. 24, 1994 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

A court in India has banned, at least temporarily, one key site from the practice of driving ships o

A government move to update the 1898 Post Office Act is causing concern to the express industry, whi

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent -1.431/18 95.2 1/19 95.4 1/20 95.1

The Dominican Republic's commercial bank creditors have agreed to buy back US$1.04 billion of the co

ST. PAUL COS. REPORTS 4TH-QUARTER TURNAROUNDST. PAUL, Minn. - St. Paul Cos. reported

For the week ended Jan. 15, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The European Union Commission is under pressure to extend import quotas on Russian aluminum imports,

Four foreign groups have submitted bids to supply Taiwan's first satellite, scheduled to be launched

Bundesbank net currency reserves rose to 96.9 billion deutsche marks (US$55.4 billion) in the week t

Just when it's beginning to sink in at U.S. companies that customers worldwide feel most comfortable

Monday, Jan. 24, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

GENERAL * Abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission. Status: Idea rejected by House and Sen

Sales by Canadian retail stores fell 0.2 percent in November to a seasonally adjusted 16.292 billion

As a fall deadline approaches to reauthorize the federal Superfund law, lobbyists are betting that P