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Total 1992 grain production in the former Soviet Union is projected to reach a net weight of 203.5 m

Six years after the U.S. Customs Service began an investigation of Japan's Minebea Co., and two year

As Morrison Knudsen Corp. outlined plans last week to turn an abandoned plant on the city's south si

Colombia will press the United States to support a new world coffee pact during a drug summit this w

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A Dallas-based company said reefer owners can stop worrying about ozone- depleting refrigerants and

Feb. 21, 1992 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

The Japanese wholesale price index for Feb. 1-10 averaged 89.6 (1985=100), up 0.2 percent from Jan.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey awarded a $20.8 million contract last week for the con

ARGENTINE AIRLINE STOPS FLIGHTS TO PERUBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine airlin

While programs to establish electronic links with customers have not always lived up to expectations

Transportation companies are increasingly linking their computers to telephone lines to transmit and

The recent arrest of a Mexican labor leader was the result of a Mexican crackdown on tax evasion and

Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Bombay plans to allow private companies to set up and manage two additional

The head of the powerful German metalworkers union proposed a complicated formula to save eastern Ge

Forwarders who operate in New England are desperately looking for opportunities in a depressed marke

Despite its role as an industrial center, Belarus faces the loss of its traditional trade status in

American President Lines Ltd., one of two shipping lines that left the Intermodal Container Transfer

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World coffee prices are the cheapest since 1975, costing poor nations billions of dollars in lost ea

The International Finance Corp., an affiliate of the World Bank, said it would invest about $6.5 mil

Although it is still too early to make any firm forecasts, Brazil's 1992 (May-to-September) midyear

Increases in housing, food and transportation pushed Canadian consumer prices up 0.5 percent in Janu

Malaysia's industrial production index rose 10.1 percent in 1991 from a year earlier to 184.7, the S

Police are questioning a German suspected of trying to smuggle dozens of illegal Indian immigrants t

Major investment plans in Russia's energy sector are unlikely in the next two to three years until t

ATLANTIC SHIP LINES MUM ON CAPACITY CUTSNEW YORK - A group of 12 shipping lines that

Manufacturers say they are ahead of schedule in developing refrigerants and equipment for replacemen

In the latest twist to the dispute inside one of the country's largest maritime unions,attorneys for

The shutdown of a 360,000-metric-ton-a-year ethylene plant in Libya has cut propylene supplies to se

Western German companies plan to invest more than $15 billion (25 billion Deutsche marks) in eastern

With worldwide growth of refrigerated traffic projected to hold steady at 5 percent to 6 percent per

A.T. Massey Coal Co. said it is expanding its Eastern low-sulfur coal holdings through the $41 milli

Air cargo is outpacing passenger growth. And the world seems to be taking notice. But is it

New and newly applied technology is boosting the efficiency of the rapidly growing global perishable

People called Robert W. Prescott all kinds of names, but timid was never one of them. When t

The United States, Mexico and Canada are engaged in intensive negotiations to remove all trade barri

The Intermodal Association of North America will elect its initial board of directors at its spring