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FIBER OPTIC DEMAND MAY EXCEED $10 BILLIONNEWPORT, R.I. - Worldwide demand for fiber optics w

1561 (Dec. 6, 1991) Previous day - 1564 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

More than 65 percent of the world merchant fleet is at least 10 years old, while 15 percent is 20 ye

Mist swirls around the helicopter as pilot Brian Reynolds leans out of his helicopter, peering down

REGIONAL BLOCS By Whose Rules Will Japan Play the International Game? Dec. 10. New York City

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Dec. 6, 1991Bid AskedCopper_G

This is my last Shipping and Futures column, after more than three years of authorship. I am

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Japan's major beer breweries, eager to find other profit sources, are intensifying efforts to divers

BFGOODRICH OUTLINES VINYL OPERATION PLANSBFGoodrich Co., which said it will shut down high-c

White House science adviser D. Allan Bromley has defended the Bush administration's "go slow" policy

The world marketplace is growing bigger and becoming more important every year. So are the ships and

Leaders from the 12 nations of the European Community meet today and tomorrow in the Dutch town of M

Ultimately shipping and port development depend on trade volumes and, viewedfrom this perspe

It was once America's flagship airline. Now it's nothing more than a carcass about to be picked over

Britain's busiest port is haunted by the twin specters of the European Community's single market and

The European arm of M.W. Kellogg Co. says it will provide process technology for South Korea's secon

Lukoil, the first of several big integrated oil companies expected to emerge in Russia, was formally

COLGATE PLANS TO SELL TOOTHPASTE IN CHINANEW YORK, Reuter - Colgate-Palmolive Co. said it fo

Wisconsin Electric Power Co., the state's largest utility, just did something in waste recovery that

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 5, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The European Community expects railroads to be the backbone of its transportation system in the 21st

A rash of recent train crashes has dramatized the need to modernize Mexico's antiquated rail system

Friday Dec. 6, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Canada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November remained unchanged from October at 10.3

Domestic shippers still feeling the pinch of a 40-foot container shortage in the aftermath of the gu

With box volumes here growing more than 20 percent each month on the previous year, and the increase

Bulk cargoes may still rule the Gulf of Mexico, but economic changes in Europe and Latin America hav

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President Bush's selection of Samuel K. Skinner to be his chief of staff ends Mr. Skinner's unfinish

A seafaring union is mounting a pre-emptive strike against the Coast Guard'splans to collect

The U.S. dollar fell sharply Thursday despite the Bundesbank's announcement that German interest rat

Dec. 5, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, whose country carries Africa's heaviest per capita debt burden,

British and Argentine officials have opened talks over possible joint management of resources, inclu

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Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The U.S. delegation at the working group talks here of the International Coffee Organization circula

Eastman Chemical Co. has developed a technology that it says will help automate plastic recycling op