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A new five-year plan to upgrade India's maritime industry calls for a diversified fleet that will fu

Richard Goatman was named executive vice president, replacing Mike Keen, who recently retired.

Japan arrested a record 32,908 foreigners in 1991 for working illegally and has deported most of the

The U.S. dollar was essentially unchanged Monday as guesswork about an easing of interest rates by t

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and a host of other Walt Disney characters are coming back to China throug

The United States is the world's foremost unfair trader, a Japanese government panel said Monday, ci

A new fashion for environmental improvement, given further impetus by the United Nations Earth Summi

Coastal states can regulate overtime pay of shipboard workers, the Supreme Court agreed Monday.<

Maersk Data Inc. has purchased a stake in a leading electronic communications softwaresupplier and i

In 1982, when environmentalists were campaigning to save the ozone layer, a federally funded study f

The CRB Futures Index, reflecting prices in 21 commodity markets, rose by 1.5 percent in May, ending

Sales by Australian shipbuilders could double to more than US$500 million a year by 1995, said John

Trucking companies, working on the slimmest of profit margins after two years of recession, may have

In moves that will reshape its executive management team, Northwest Airlines has namedan Ivy League

CP LABOR AGREEMENT ALLOWS CREW CUTSA new labor agreement will boost rail productivity and pe

As of June 8, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list prices

Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party and two U.S. telecommunication companies are seeki

Attempts by Long Beach, Calif.-area congressmen to keep repair work flowing to the Long Beach Naval

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Declaring that the breakup of Czechoslovakia would be a "tragedy," Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus ann

June 8, 1992 This table shows the vessels scheduled to call at U.S. coal terminals andthe es

One U.S. government analyst, when asked about Vietnam's efforts to rejoin the international trading

Mexico's state oil and gas company, Petroleos Mexicanos, plans to sharply increase its imports of U.

Hangzhou-Toshiba Machinery & Electronics Co., a joint venture between Toshiba Corp. of Japan and Chi

In each of the last three years, the annual parade of Texas exports, accounting for morethan 20 perc

Executives in Taiwan's computer industry said Monday they fear a new accord between Taiwan and the U

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 210.47 off 1.49 which compares w

The prospects for Taiwan's entry into the world's primary trade-regulating agency have suffered an u

U.S. forklift manufacturers are fighting a tough battle in overseas markets, where growth is limited

The Federal Maritime Commission is inundating the industry with proposals to streamline and liberali

Last-minute jitters almost disrupted the 21-month-old merger talks between the country's two largest

Orlando International Airport's effort to become an important cargo center as well as a popular tour

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday told a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that would have le

New York Mercantile Exchange June 5, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

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Saudi companies will sue a U.S. group of construction companies for alleged breaches of contract in

Most Asian Pacific Rim nations again will post substantial economic growth this year and next, but l

Railroad carload traffic increased 4.2 percent in May as the nation's economic recoveryshowed signs

A $100 insurance registration fee imposed last fall by Texas on interstate trucking companies travel

GERMANS BARELY FAVOR EC UNITY, POLL SAYSBONN, Germany - Only a bare majority of Germans favo