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Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota plans to enter into a barter agreement under which it will s

With or without a global coffee agreement, New York coffee prices should recover to 75 cents a pound

Feb. 2, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Vulcan Chemicals, a division of Vulcan Materials Co., has begun operating a $9 million plant that co

In an apparent challenge to Hong Kong's planned multibillion-dollar airport project, Chinese officia

Construction of a federal jail on the Seattle waterfront would wreck plans for maritime or commercia

APL Land Transport Services plans to spend approximately $6 million over the next 15 months on custo

Feb. 2, 1993 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

European Community foreign and trade ministers closed ranks Tuesday and condemned the United States

The slide in the Swiss franc will continue with the Swiss National Bank unlikely to take any action

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

Feb. 2, 1993 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

U.S. business groups Tuesday welcomed President Clinton's choice of investment banker Kenneth Brody

Growth in the German economy could be negative in 1993, in contrast to what many forecasting groups

Jerry Brunelle oversees what could be Central America's biggest melon patch. A half-hour's f

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago2/2 2/1 Change % Change: 1/7

An unrelenting rise in London Metal Exchange nickel stocks means supply is still outstripping demand

Ocean carriers operating on the Pacific have reduced rates on certain major export cargoes by as muc

A Missouri state court jury concluded that truck maker Navistar International Transportation Corp. a

Two rail research teams have won awards for outstanding technological achievement in 1992 from the A

General cargo moving through the Port of Baltimore increased for the second consecutive year, spurre

Accounting changes and hurricane losses dragged down earnings for Alexander & Baldwin Inc., the pare

One might have expected the nomination last month of Sir Leon Brittan as the European Community's vi

More than 7,000 mine workers walked off their jobs Tuesday at mines owned by Henderson, Ky.-based Pe

In a bid to unionize regional less-than-trucklood carriers, the International Brotherhood of Teamste

Monday, Feb. 2, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Tonight, some 1,000 guests at a $100-a-plate dinner in Manhattan will stand and salute the director

Attorney Richard Brown, who used to be in the cocoa bean business, tells an apocryphal story about t

Japanese corporations plan to continue to cut capital spending in the first six months of this year,

Plant and equipment investments in Singapore's manufacturing sector in 1992 reached S$3.48 billion (

One of Hong Kong's oldest conglomerates has won its second contract to upgrade the Chinese port of N

Mexico's booming market and the signing of the North American free-trade agreement caught the attent

ROMANIA SIGNS PACT ON TRADE WITH ECBRUSSELS, Belgium - Romania Monday signed an association

MORE AMERICAN RE COMMON STOCK RELEASEDPRINCETON, N.J. - Underwriters for the initial

Feb. 2, 1993 Copper Total, 123,982. Gold Total, .1,360,744.Silver Tot

DU PONT TO HALT SALE OF IMPLANT POLYMERSWILMINGTON, Del. - Du Pont will phase out th

The Australian Wheat Board has raised its estimate of the 1992-93 (April- March) Australian wheat cr

World cotton exports are slowing from last year due to lower consumption by major importing nations,

Canadian Pacific Ltd., parent of CP Rail System, posted a heavy loss for 1992, but expects the red i

CSX Intermodal has begun an intermodal service between the Port of Baltimore and cities in Kentucky,