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A leading ship liability insurer is asking for more money from members to cover its last three accou

ALCOA, REYNOLDS UNIONS RATIFY 1-YEAR CONTRACTS NEW YORK - Members of the United Steelw

Members of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation are making cautious new

A House maritime panel added over $200 million to the Maritime Administration's fiscal year 1993 bud

Japan will lay out the red carpet this week for one of its favorite Americans, Vice President Dan Qu

With commercial real estate still in oversupply, insurance companies that have heavy investments in

Illinois will close foreign trade offices in Shenyang, China, and Moscow, effective June 30, as part

Among China's seeming endless list of superlatives is its claim to be the world's largest producer o

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The world's leading textile and clothing producers are calling for "more resolve" among developed co

Taiwan will open its inland container transport sector in stages to U.S. companies, the government a

CARGO VOLUME SOARS AT AMERICAN AIRLINESFORT WORTH - American Airlines' cargo volume

US OFFICIAL SOFTENS ROCKET DEAL WARNINGA State Department official Thursday seemed to soften

The world economic summit in Munich this July is not the place to discuss the faltering multilateral

The Department of Transportation's proposals to cut federal regulatory red tape, which were welcomed

Top U.S. and Japanese auto industry executives will meet this month in Chicago, the first talks sinc

U.S. manufacturers released about 4.8 billion pounds of toxic chemicals during 1990, 11 percent less

The former operator of Southern Pacific Lines' Los Angeles Intermodal Container Transfer Facility is

Container volume at the Port of Baltimore in the first quarter dropped nearly 3 percent from the fir

Quotations, provided by Citibank/New York, Foreign Exchange Desk, are offered rates of New York City

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The World Bank's International Finance Corp. has won a $1 billion increase in its resources, the age

The U.S. Customs Service is starting to revamp its West Coast offices with a new, user-friendly entr

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 415,000 people during the week end

MESA AIRLINES' PROFIT ROSE 289 PERCENT IN QUARTERFARMINGTON, N.M. - Mesa Airlines Inc., repo

New York Mercantile Exchange May 6, 1992CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents p

The Federal Maritime Commission may permit the voluntary filing of rate- discount agreements for pur

The U.S. dollar rose Thursday on bullish expectations about today's U.S. April employment report.

A new round of talks between Australian dockworkers and waterfront employers has begun in the wake o

Despite gloomy forecasts, the Port of Oakland is climbing out of the red and expects to post an $8 m

Germany's new packaging laws are designed to achieve an environment-friendly system of waste managem

An Anglo-Japanese consortium won the coveted contract for a suspension bridge linking Hong Kong's ne

Russia's Aeroflot Airlines and two Miami-based cargo airlines have reached agreements providing all

Representatives of Japan's trade ministry may press the United States at the meeting of the Organiza

The Interstate Commerce Commission this week threw out grain shipper complaints about Burlington Nor

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JAPAN'S SHOWA TO HIKE ALUMINUM OUTPUTJapan's Showa Denko group companies plan to increase th

Brazil's government is structuring a tax and credit plan designed to stimulate up to 2 million metri

SETTLEMENTS REACHED IN RESERVE INSOLVENCIESSPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A group of settlement