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Aug. 3, 1993 Copper Total, 113,804. Gold Total, .2,448,369.Silver Total, .277

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 222.92 up 3.66 which compares wi

Bilateral talks between Thailand and the United States are gradually hacking through the jungle of i

OMAN SETS JULY CRUDE AT $15.21 A BARRELTOKYO - Oman has set its retroactive July cru

Tosco Corp. Tuesday reported second-quarter net income of $22.14 million, or 67 cents a share, compa

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Budget conferees gave railroads a break Tuesday. The lawmakers agreed to a 1.25 cent-a-gallo

Amid rough economic times for the U.S. shipping industry, supporters of the U.S. Maritime Academy ar

Maersk Line, the Danish ocean carrier, concluded the sale of three of its containerships to Military

Vicki Saporta, organizing director for the Teamsters union, resigned the post she has held for 10 ye

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China's bid to cool property speculation and the construction boom that are stoking its overheated e

A nonvessel operating common carrier in the Pacific Northwest has begun offering less-than-container

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday it and Aeromexico have reached preliminary agreement on sharing fl

As a means of shifting more freight onto the rails, the British government said Tuesday it will lift

The U.S. dollar remained mixed Tuesday, trading narrowly as the market adjusted to the new, wider tr

Ryder System Inc., the Miami-based transportation services company, reflecting a restructuring charg

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U.S., Mexican and Canadian negotiators will keep talking without respite until they reach a final ac

US-W. AFRICA GROUP SLATES RATE HIKESNEW YORK - The American West Africa Freight Conf

Exxon Corp. has ended a nearly seven-year Alaska exploration-drilling hiatus and has modest plans to

When DKK Scharfenstein, an eastern German refrigerator producer, announced last year it had develope

Japan's carmakers are considering the use of steel sheets coated with less zinc in a long-term bid t

Ethylene prices in Japan are about 30 percent higher than in the United States, according to a recen

Occidental Chemical Corp. has started a $25 million cleanup project at its plant on the Hylebos wate

The ripple from the nation's flooded railroad network is hitting Midwest grain elevators that stand

Intermodal operators at West Coast ports, hoping to right themselves by the end of the week, still a

Tuesday Aug. 3, 1993 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and Japan's Marubeni Corp. will cooperate in energy ventures o

Attorneys for Fort Lauderdale, Fla.'s Waste & Water Treatment Corp. and Port Everglades ended a six-

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Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, burdened by a continuing traffic decline, suffered a larger

The Dutch engineering consultancy DHV is proposing a larger port in the western state of Gujarat tha

Imperial Sugar Co., the largest commodity importer through the Port of Galveston, signed a 20-year l

Expressing disappointment at recent trade decisions by Argentina, Brazil has called for a reversal o

Some 27.9 million assessment tons of cargo moved across the Port of New York and New Jersey's piers

Industrial production in eastern Germany fell 1.6 percent in May from April to stand 7.4 percent abo

Northwest Pipeline Corp. has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requ