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Dredging as a way to keep the nation's watery highways open to commerce is gaining a higher profile

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent -0.391/19 95.4 1/20 95.1 1/21 95.1

India's international telecom company, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., is planning to raise $1 billion th

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China's Ministry of Justice said residents from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao will be permitted to tak

International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 26, 1994Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Jan. 26, 1994 RESELLER RACKUnleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

France Wednesday drafted a resolution calling for a full trade embargo against Haiti, grounding all

Infrastructure construction and rising demand for medical insurance are likely to sustain the local

BARGE SPILLS GASOLINE IN KENTUCKY RIVERNEW YORK - An Ashland Oil Inc. barge spilled

Seattle-based Pacific King Fisheries Inc., a subsidiary of a Japanese fish- marketing corporation ha

American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Basking Ridge, N.J., entered a joint venture with two European f

Norfolk Southern Corp. said Wednesday it earned $159.4 million, or $1.15 a share, in the fourth quar

U.S. distillate fuel oil inventories fell by 8.2 million barrels during the week ended Jan. 21 compa

37 FEARED DEAD IN FIRE AT INDIAN COAL MINECALCUTTA, India - At least 37 coal miners

Texaco Inc., the oil company with major holdings in natural gas, said it was creating a new marketpl

The U.S. dollar declined against the yen Wednesday on growing U.S. frustration over lack of progress

Insurers will soon be able to compare premium prices through a database system designed by the Insur

Customs authorities around the world will help to breathe life into the recently concluded Uruguay R

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The trade association representing less-than-truckload carriers now plans an April start-up for a ne

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

As of Jan. 26, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from s

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

Marine underwriters are starting to require information about a shipping company's management and cr

A Senator Lines ship was stopped in the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where inspectors

Officials here said the French transport engineering firm Sofretu won a consultancy contract with Gu

Tropical timber exporters backed an accord promoting forest conservation after North American and Eu

An increase in U.S. steel production has edged up sales of coking coal but not enough to challenge t

Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Ahmed al-Baghli said Tuesday the emirate had noplans to cut back on

As of Jan. 25, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

Nine seamen were missing and feared dead Tuesday after their tanker blew up some 300 miles southeast

Total ship losses declined for the second consecutive year, the Institute of London Underwriters rep

The government of Puerto Rico, which had planned to sell its troubled shipping line by May, is now s

Tuesday, Jan. 25, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Economic growth and corporate earnings in the emerging markets of the Far East outpaced developed na

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