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With tonnage down by almost one-half from the heyday of the 1980s, and few prospects for improvement

Judging from this summer's labor problems at France's largest ports, the government's ports reform p

To its supporters, the Rhine-Main-Danube canal was to become the main artery of European water trans

Business organizations are shaping the European Community's environmental agenda by exploiting conce

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Europe's top airlines clashed angrily Thursday over ways to bail their industry out of a deepening f

Indonesian national oil company Pertamina will resume negotiations with Exxon Corp. over the Natuna

A spokesman for some of the nation's largest coal operators criticized Gov. Gaston Caperton for what

British seasonally adjusted unemployment rose by 5,800 in August to 2.92 million, its second success

Two freighters sustained minor damage after allegedly colliding in Chittagong Roads off Bangladesh i

Sen. John Breaux, D-La., a top Senate supporter of the maritime industry, warned President Clinton t

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HANDKERCHIEFS Handkerchiefs. Pierre Balmain, 44 rue Francois 1er, F-75008 Paris, France. Tel

4 TO DIE IN CRACKDOWN ON CHINA FAKE GOODSChina condemned four people to death and jailed fiv

Utah's exports have grown 260 percent since 1987, nearly three times the country's total export-grow

Differences over the treatment of several "sensitive" products stalled negotiation of a preferential

Tracks leading to Marseilles-Fos plant of the French chemicals giant Atochem France SA have been cle

With crude oil supplies apparently in surplus and prices at a three-year low, the widespread outlook

The aluminum-can recycling business has spawned a group of independent fabricated-products recyclers

NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL TO POST PRETAX LOSSTOKYO - Nippon Steel Chemical Co. will suff

PENN TERMINALS INC. (Eddystone, Pa.) - William F. Campbell joined the company as presidentand chief

The narrowing of the spread between North Sea Brent and Dubai crudes has encouraged at least one tra

A plastics exporter has pleaded guilty in federal court to 16 counts of defrauding the U.S. governme

The insurance industry was quick to blast as "meaningless" a California Department of Insurance unde

Marine salvage companies rescued a record level of marine property last year. The 44 members

Japan's $57 billion fiscal stimulus package unveiled Thursday will do little to stimulate the econom

Percent change in index of output at mines, factories and utilities PERCENT CHANGE Aug

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

An attempt by the Coast Guard to find partners willing to help pay for an oil spill prevention exper

Traffic flows are back to normal for the island territory of Guam, but shipping problems there in th

A radical overhaul of seafarer training and assessment methods is beginning at a critical time for a

Exporters often do not know the risk involved when they set up certain payment arrangements with ove

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

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Sept. 16, 1993 Copper Total, 94,519. Gold Total, .2,444,038.Silver T

The intermodal revolution in North America has dramatically improved cargo transportation, but daunt

The bar graphs at a series of chemical industries seminars had an uncharacteristic sameness. Demand

FRANCE'S ELF AQUITAINE SET FOR PRIVATIZATIONPARIS - The French state-controlled oil

Bad loans held at Japanese banks are likely to increase some 10 percent at the end of September from

The January-June 1993 average wage in the Czech Republic rose 21 percent from the same period in 199