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Japan's lead smelters will seek higher treatment charges for 1993concentrates despite a tigh

A full-scale cigarette price war could erupt in the United States and erode the cachet of such premi

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The International Energy Agency issued figures Tuesday implying that some slack is being wrung out o

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Two Japanese shipping lines are adding a Southeast Asia express service to their trans-Pacific opera

U.S. Census figures for ocean shipments between the Port of New York and Puerto Rico are running at

COLUMBUS LINE INC. (Jersey City, N.J.) - Tim Murray was named manager of Navicana Services, an inter

Switzerland's unemployment rate in March measured 4.9 percent, up from 4.8 percent in February and u

Canadian truckers are ill-prepared for a North American free-trade environment and must entrench the

Increased government investment and better enforcement of transport regulation are badly needed if m

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Private port terminal operators and potential investors say all systems are ''go" to expand and upgr

Brazil expects to raise at least another $9 billion from dozens more privatization auctions in 1993

The Port of Jawaharlal Nehru near Bombay will shortly float a global tender for nearly US$10 million

Historic ships, work boats, tall tales and sea stories will be featured during a summer-long festiva

The New York Mercantile Exchange is seeking to change the expiration date of its natural gas options

Research into a new drug for thalassemia, an inherited and sometimes fatal blood disease, may revolu

Apr. 6, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

Apache Corp. said Monday it sold the NAGS natural gas-gathering system in Oklahoma to Transok Inc. a

Thousands of olive farmers in southern Spain have declared war on a traditional buying system that f

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Western German industrial orders plunged 13.7 percent in February from one year ago and dropped 2.2

Cuba should see a decline in sugar production this year because of shortages of fuel to run vital ma

The U.S. export-finance sector may go electronic with government support, thanks to a new proposal t

Mercedes-Benz AG said Monday it will begin construction of a plant in the United States later this y

Political opposition to the pending North American free-trade agreement and personal motives of a "d

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The European Community and Slovenia signed a trade agreement on Monday that aims to provide a legal

In the wake of last week's failed attempt to negotiate a new International Coffee Agreement, coffee

EXPEDITORS INTERNATIONAL OF WASHINGTON INC. (Seattle) - Glenn Alger was named senior vice president

Polish fishermen blocked all the country's ports Monday to demand state protection for their struggl

CRUDE UNIT SHUT DOWN AT CHEVRON REFINERYHOUSTON - The 178,000-barrel-a- day crude oi

Two major property and casualty insurance trade groups Monday broke off merger talks and have no pla

The story "Ports to Use Fed Study in Effort to Reform Navigation Project Funding" on Page 8B March 1

The 7,600-deadweight-ton roll-on, roll-off vessel Camilla is being inspected by divers at Halifax af

Agreements reached by President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin are expected to result i

For the second time in under a week the Canadian government has ruled that foreign countries are dum

Negotiators have a difficult challenge ahead in finding an appropriate balance in proposed side deal