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Nissan Motor Corp. has become the second major automobile manufacturer to convert to shipping vehicl

Iran and India agreed on Tuesday to set up a committee to study a pipeline project that would export

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

KOHL: WESTERN GERMANY POISED FOR RECOVERYBONN, Germany - Chancellor Helmut Kohl said the wes

Ann Panno remembers talking about buying flood insurance, along with her business-interruption polic

The impact of heavy flooding on mid-America barge freight shipping has gotten much worse in recent d

July 6, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

After creeping along as slowly as a glacier for several years, the Alaska economy is showing signs o

The European Community Commission will today discuss imposing sanctions against Italy for jeopardizi

WARNER-LAMBERT TO BUY FISONS PLC OPERATIONMORRIS PLAINS, N.J. - Warner-Lambert Co. will acqu

A factory explosion this week revealed a weak point of the mighty computer chip industry in Japan, a

Trading volume on the New York Mercantile Exchange for the first half of 1993 was up 5 percent from

SASKATCHEWAN GROUP TO OBJECT TO BARLEY PLANThe Saskatchewan Wheat Pool announced it will cha

Taiwan's announcement that it will cut its huge infrastructure program is a long-overdue admission t

Continuing its testing of high-speed rail equipment, Amtrak has taken delivery of the German-built "

McDonnell-Douglas Corp. has received an order for eight F/A-18D Hornet aircraft from Malaysia, as pa

1993 Banyan Technical Conference. July 11-13. Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Mass. Contact: Schuman

Even before leaders of the world's most powerful economies landed in Japan for this week's summit of

The Japanese government is offering the biggest lot of state-owned shares to the market in six years

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Nguyen Manh Tuan runs the kind of business the Vietnamese government hopes will lift the country out

Westinghouse Electric Corp. has become a 33 percent partner in a new joint venture, I&C Energo, a nu

CRUDE OIL FUTURES FALL TO NEW LOW OF $17.94NEW YORK - New York Mercantile Exchange A

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

It isn't just Japan's political structure that seems to be coming apart at the seams. Sudden

The sea lanes across the Gulf of Mexico between the United States and Mexico soon may bustle with ra

American President Line's selection last week of the Port of Los Angeles to be its southern load cen

An Arab League official said that Arab banks want flexibility on standards imposed by a Bank for Int

6 TRAINING CENTERS ACCREDITED BY IATAThe International Air Transport Association said it has

Russia's economics minister lashed out at U.S. trade policy and "unfair practices" that, he claimed,

Empresa Naviera Santa SA, one of the primary carriers in the Florida and Central American shipping t

Brazilian exporters will be more accountable for bills left unpaid by their foreign clients, now tha

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

A Philippine Senate panel accused the local subsidiary of soft drinks giant Pepsico of gross neglige

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Foreign investors scared off by the uncertainty surrounding last month's election, are returning to

For Japanese manufacturers grappling with a two-year recession at home and sluggish, if not hostile,

Japan said Friday its current account surplus for trade in goods and services widened to $9.60 billi

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is ready to approve loans worth $250 million to Vietnam as soon as

In the wake of record flooding in the nation's heartland last week, the barge industry got a break.