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

The drug ephedrine, a mild stimulant recently linked to the production of the street drug methcathin

Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

International Petroleum Exchange Sept. 30, 1993Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Stena Line AB, the Swedish ferry group, reported a profit increase of almost 30 percent during the f

At least 6,000 people were killed and thousands more injured when the region's deadliest earthquake

The World Bank on Thursday sharply lifted its estimate of financing needs for the West Bank and Gaza

U.S. apple exporters are cautiously optimistic about Japan's promise to lift a ban on imports of U.S

The U.S. dollar rose Thursday on data showing signs of improvement in the U.S. economy and on contin

Hub Group and Richmond Transportation Services have agreed in principle to a venture that would boos

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Sept. 30, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

In response to consumer indifference, when the state's oxygenated-fuels program begins Nov. 1, three

The Philippines' coal industry is getting dirty, with officials and producers at odds over strategy.

A controversial soil-treatment company can continue pursuing its lawsuit against the Indiana Port Co

The chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission said Thursday that eliminating the antitrust immunit

Booming growth in Southeast Asia is spurring Caltex Petroleum Corp. to double its investment in Sing

State environmental officials have stripped a Brunswick chemical plant of two permits, but the plant

JAPANESE REFINERY CUTS REDUCE CRUDE DEMANDTOKYO - Plans by Japanese refiners to redu

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

The service alliance announced this week between J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and Norfolk South

MERCEDES-BENZ PICKS ALABAMA FOR PLANT SITEVANCE, Ala. - Mercedes-Benz of Germany is to set u

Chemical Waste Management Inc. Thursday announced a restructuring that will result in a third-quarte

USAIR GROUP PLANS TO SLASH 2,500 JOBSARLINGTON, Va. - USAir Group plans to eliminate

HoW tO Use: Under the U.S. government's American Business Initiative, the Eastern Europe Bus

Cargo tonnage at the Newport News Marine Terminal will increase by more than 16 percent, and the por

COLUMBUS LINE (Jersey City, N.J.) - Paul Voorhees was named chassis fleet coordinator in Columbus' l

Eagle Star Life hopes to be first European insurer to break into Taiwan's insurance market.

If what local investors are being told comes to pass, middle-class Brazilians one day will be buying

California garlic growers have backed away from lodging formal dumping complaints against Chinese co

Carmine Ragucci still may realize his dream to reopen the idled Howland Hook marine terminal on Stat

In what may turn out to be one of the most important trips of his tenure, Secretary of Transportatio

Multinational corporations have taken the offensive to try to head off European Community moves to t

The pull of global trade is so strong that most of the remaining regulation on the books governing t

Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins major-league baseball team, has reached a preliminary agre

Ralph Nader is not about to declare airline travel unsafe at any speed. The consumer activis

National supplies of low-sulfur diesel fuel appear to be sufficient to cover truckers' needs today,

* Argentine Franchising Association (Asociacion Argentina de Franchising e Franquicia Comercial), Ma

Spot copper prices went into free-fall Thursday, plunging to the lowest level in six years here and

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER EXPECTS QUARTERLY LOSSInsurance broker Alexander & Alexander Services