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The Port of Baltimore posted modest general cargo increases for the second consecutive quarter, the

Thomas M.T. Niles, the U.S. representative to the European Community, in an Aug. 16 letter, hailed t

BREMER VULKAN POSTS FIRST-HALF PROFITFRANKFURT, Germany - Bremer Vulkan AG, a major

China Navigation Co. is buying three bulk carriers from Northern Ireland's Harland & Wolff Shipbuild

Secondary market debt prices for Brazil and Argentina soared last week to their highest levels in se

A major U.S. glass manufacturer called on the U.S. government, in its free- trade talks with Mexico,

Amos Mayan was named vice president of the Florida-Caribbean district in the Miami office of Zim-Ame

The United Kingdom's Johnson Matthey, agents for South Africa-based Rustenburg, the largest platinum

Efforts to integrate Central America economically may be gaining momentum. Central Americans

The growth in U.S.-Asia air cargo services has meant a big increase in business for Airmax Inc., a c

U.S. Customs Service investigations into fraudulent shipments of garmentsfrom the Philippine

Annual growth in profits and the number of entrepreneurs entering an industry are twosignposts by wh

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

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

P&G, SOVIET UNIVERSITY FORM MARKET VENTUREProcter & Gamble Co. said it signed a join

The gulf war wrecked the playground of the wealthiest of Kuwait's wealthy. Most of their ple

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 27, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hi

Belgian inflation fell to a 3.54 percent annual rate in July, compared to a revised 3.82 percent ann

European and British companies are accelerating the adoption of EDI and computerized information sys

Global paperless trading is finally becoming a reality, and a phalanx of corporations are jockeying

The timing and quantity of Soviet metal exports shipped through Baltic ports are unlikely to be affe

ITEL RAIL PLANS TO ORDER 75 RAILROAD TANK CARSItel Rail Corp. said it plans to purchase an a

La Elo, an Indonesian fisherman from the tiny Sulawesi island of Maginti, first turned up as an ille

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 26, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

NORTH AMERICA Invention Convention. Aug. 30-Sept. 2: Pasedena, Calif. Feb. 21-23. Orlando. C

Canada will set up a permanent station in the arctic to monitor depletion of the ozone as part of a

The opening of the Twin Cities Board of Trade, the nation's newest futures exchange, located in Minn

A group representing many investors, or "names," in the troubled Lloyd's of London insurance market

Shippers, railroads and truckers are asking the Interstate CommerceCommission for more time

Four U.S. computer software companies filed suit against a Singapore computer dealer, Microcraft Com

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

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

Aug. 27, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

India has offered to build nuclear research reactors in other countries, and Egypt and Syria have sh

British ports are in the vanguard of worldwide efforts to create a paperless international trading s

Collecting data has become a key question as the European CommunityCommission inches toward

US AWAITS EC ANSWER ON CORN GLUTEN FEEDA proposal to settle a dispute between U.S. c

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Aug. 27, 1991Bid AskedCopper_

To hear Republican members of Congress - and one Kansas Democrat - tell it, a new 10 percent luxury