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The Chinese and Hong Kong governments are discussing financing of the colony's new airport, but will

The chemical industry maintained its dubious distinction as the nation's largest emitter of toxic ma

Under a plan that has split the Arkansas River's barge industry but would reopen that waterway to li

Coastal countries are under pressure to assume greater responsibility for policing the shipping indu

An interdepartmental letter to Los Angeles city officials from the head of the nation's busiest cont

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Bulk Materials Inc., a leading dry and liquid bulk commodities carrier based in Cleveland, said it r

The International Finance Corp. and J.P. Morgan jointly arranged $120 million of medium-term financi

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Rail and intermodal equipment is being pushed hard to keep pace as market forces encourage the growt

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Japanese banks, hungry for new territory to conquer, are turning from the markets of Europe and Nort

A decades-old pattern of racial discrimination at the International TradeCommission is being

The ruble fell to 960 to the U.S. dollar in trading here Tuesday, shedding another 20 points from Th

Debt-laden Irish state airline Aer Lingus may cut staff by 10 percent and has had "strategic allianc

The New York Mercantile Exchange's sour crude oil futures contract has been a failure, and the excha

CHINA PLEDGES AN END TO FARM IMPORT LIMITSGENEVA - China has pledged to present a pl

Guatemalan President Jorge Serrano said Tuesday in a national address that he was suspending the con

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Exports of Latin America's primary products to the United States are expected to slowlybut steadily

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,150-$1,250per ton lots &

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 209.28 off 2.28 which compares w

CUBAN SUGAR CROP SEEN AT 6.05 MILLION TONSLONDON - Cuba is expected to produce 5.5 m

Amax Inc. and Cyprus Minerals Co., two of the nation's top metals and minerals companies, said Tuesd

Shipping has emerged from deep crisis in 1992, with many sectors enjoying higher freight rates, espe

The Mediterranean port of La Spezia is expecting to have a record year in 1993 and further solidify

The Oklahoma Senate passed a bill Monday to create a new state truckingcommission. The bill,

Joining a herd of shippers already on the trucker reduction trail, 3M Co. has chosen CFMotor Freight

NORSK HYDRO CANADA APPEALS US DUTYMONTREAL - Norsk Hydro Canada Inc., a magnesium pr

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1640 (May 25, 1993) Previous day - 1636 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

BILL AIMS TO SPEED DREDGE-DISPOSAL PERMITSWASHINGTON - In the wake of the controvers

COLUMBUS LINE INC. (Jersey City, N.J.) - Michael B. Wilson was named vice president of equipment and

A boy left blind and unable to talk after being involved in a traffic accident was awarded $15 milli

House Republican leaders told President Clinton Tuesday that they would oppose the North American fr

The Commerce Department has delayed action on some 250 export licenses for shipments to India and ha

ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE AB (South Plainfield, N.J.) - Guy F. Kovalewich was appointed district sales

Frank Baffa, president of the New York-New Jersey District Council of the International Longshoreman

A legislative response to the truck rate undercharge controversy cleared another hurdle Tuesday as t

INDIA SEEKS EXTRADITION OF EX-CARBIDE CHIEFBHOPAL, India - An Indian court told pros