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This nation hopes that expansion of the Port of Galle into a major transshipment hub will put Sri La

Hurricane Andrew spawned never-before-seen 200-mile-an-hour whirlwinds that were responsible for swa

The Port of Singapore said Wednesday it awarded a US$720,000 contract to a Dutch company to help it

Italian industrial sales fell an annual 3.2 percent in October and new orders dropped an annual 1.6

Members of the rate-setting Trans-Atlantic Agreement are winning back customers that temporarily aba

Consumer prices in European Community were unchanged on average in Decemberfrom November and

Cash has taken on a political hue in African countries riven by war or political strife. In

Changes in a ports modernization bill approved Tuesday night by the Brazilian Senate signal the end

The Port Everglades Association and its executive director remained neutral during a bid contest for

A changing-of-the-guard has begun at the world's largest containership operator, Evergreen Group of

An agreement aimed at making unionized stevedoring companies in Houston more competitive with their

Service Merchandise Co., one of the nation's largest catalog retailers, selected Con-Way Intermodal

A report released Wednesday by a House of Commons Committee was critical of the British government's

Santa Fe Pacific Corp. said Wednesday it had record earnings of $168.9 million, or 91 cents a share,

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Sri Lanka's prime location on the main shipping route between Europe, the Middle East and East Asia

The Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee has approved Minnesota power company executive Haze

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Three times more tankers and combination carriers were scrapped last year than in 1991, according to

A cargo fire in two holds of the bulk carrier Eurojoy has been put out and salvors are working to ex

Various Senate Democrats are pressuring Attorney General-designate Zoe Baird to support an end to li

Four officials in Citibank's treasury division have quit for allegedly violating rules set by India'

A congressional strategy for rolling back the harbor maintenance tax this year may be determined at

Asians may be considered workaholics, but when their New Year looms, they make the most of it.

Thailand's standard inflation measure, the consumer price index, rose 4.1 percent in 1992 from 1991,

Jan. 20, 1993 Copper Total,114,643. Gold Total, .1,492,569.Silver Total, .276

Crude oil stocks jumped a whopping 7.8 million barrels in the week ended Jan. 15, the American Petro

Pacific Gas & Electric has taken the "very unusual" step of curtailing its ''interruptible" natural

Bill Clinton's presidency may mark a period of change for world oil during which prices could take s

The European Commission is reining in 1992-93 (July-June) exports of open- market subsidized wheat,

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St. Paul Cos. has totaled up the damage done to it by hurricanes Andrew and Iniki, Typhoon Omar and

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 20, 1993Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hi

A federal judge's ruling that labor rackets had infested the New York-New Jersey waterfront in the 1

Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The chief policy maker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Wednesday the next cut in the

Faced with economic integration in Europe, preparations for unprecedented regional trade in North Am

The German government will push Monday for tougher controls for tankers entering European Community

France, Germany, Britain and Brazil are subsidizing certain steel products and selling them at unfai

Air France Wednesday estimated its 1992 consolidated loss at 3.2 billion francs ($589 million), in l