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Atlanta Olympics organizers said they intend to use a network of barges to transport sailboats to th

Mobil Oil Indonesia plans to explore for natural gas in the remote frontier areas of the Makasar Str

GPM GAS TO EXPAND TEXAS PLANT'S CAPACITYNEW YORK - GPM Gas Corp. will expand the nat

California Energy Co. of Omaha, Neb., has agreed to buy Westmoreland Energy Inc., Philadelphia, a wh

The Fanjul family sugar companies have agreed to pay Caribbean cane cutters about $1 million to sett

As of Nov. 2, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained

The long-running and sometimes stormy love affair between Canadian natural gas producers and the sta

Pacific carriers began crucial rate talks with the toymaker industry late last week, marking the beg

For the first time in nearly a decade, the House this week will take up, and probably pass, maritime

Yangming Marine Transport Corp., the insurgent Taiwanese carrier, said Tuesday that it will trim its

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Nummi, a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp. a

With fears of a strike this month by independent truckers mounting, the president of the American Tr

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,230-$1,260per ton lots &

It is the maritime industry's good fortune that Sen. John Breaux, D-La, clearly one of the rising st

ALUMAX'S EVANS PREDICTS CUTS BY EX-SOVIET STATESLONDON - The Commonwealth of Indepen

Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ltd., Japan's largest steamship line, is mulling a relocation of its Pacific Nor

Nov. 2, 1993 Copper Total, 96,635. Gold Total, .2,349,220.Silver Total, .275

Five companies and four men were honored at a luncheon by the Bi-State Harbor Carriers Conference fo

OPERATING INCOME UP BUT CIGNA POSTS LOSSPHILADELPHIA - Cigna Corp. reported third-qu

Johnson & Higgins, the international insurance brokerage based in New York, has acquired a 25 percen

Standard & Poor's Corp. rated more property and casualty insurers vulnerable to insolvency in its la

A Columbia River port that tried to break into the container market a few years ago said it will con

The U.S. dollar rose above 1.70 deutsche marks Tuesday after Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer sai

Italian consumer prices rose 0.7 percent in the month of October and 4.3 percent in the year through

The U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a $199.5 million guarantee to support the sale of U.S. engineer

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BUDGET GLITCHES RESOLVED IN NAFTA LEGISLATIONThe Clinton administration Tuesday worked out s

Russia's agrarian leaders appear to have accepted the inevitability of land reform, despite minister

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 217.88 off 0.51 which compares w

The intergovernmental group of port experts meeting under the auspices of the United Nations Committ

Seven companies and four officers have been indicted in an international scheme to set the minimum p

Electric industry executives, economists and analysts meeting near Orlando have agreed on one thing:

Italy's Riva Steel Group has received tentative approval to purchase the massive EKO Stahl AG steel

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Western German industrial production dropped a preliminary 2 percent in September from August, nearl

Southern Pacific Rail Corp.'s decision to withdraw from industrywide labor bargaining is just anothe

The Clinton administration's draft proposal to reform the aviation industry would rule out any rollb

Allways Distribution Systems Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., reached an agreement with rail holding compan

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