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Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

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

California refiners, facing negative profit margins because of weak gasoline demand and high supplie

Compagnie Generale Maritime, the French shipping line, in mid-July will add a fifth vessel to its ro

A strike that began at Daelim Industrial Co. Monday was expected to close at least one of the compan

MIRO INDICTED IN LA. BY FEDERAL GRAND JURYA federal grand jury in Louisiana has indicted ins

As trade liberalization sweeps the hemisphere, Latin American ports are experimenting with privatiza

Speculation is on the rise that American President Lines Ltd. and Orient Overseas Container Lines ar

A new trans-Atlantic volume discount contract between Maersk Line and a major beverage shipper has

Poorer countries that tried to maintain neutrality in the Persian Gulf war appear to be bearing the

Journal of Commerce Special LONDON - The following is the list of bunker prices obtained dur

Monday June 17, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

June 17, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The 23,000 people of this historic port city, proud of their 300-year-old cobblestone streets and qu

Officials of Arco Chemical Co. and the federal government are dismissing a new industry study that s

The long wait is ending. Years of development work and complex negotiations are finally payi

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has embraced the "grand bargain" plan to reform the Soviet economy wi

UNITED SEEKS AUTHORITY FOR LONDON ROUTEUnited Airlines Monday asked the U.S. government for

Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA will cut its 1991 budget by 27 billion Venez

Airbus Industrie has won nearly $2 billion of business from Kuwait Airways and is expected to confir

A new multimillion-dollar airport is tipped as a big winner for tiny Macao, regarded as Asia's Las V

SECOND BIRD SAID THREATENED BY INDUSTRYWASHINGTON - The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposi

Compania Sudamericana de Vapores S.A. in Valparaiso, long the unchallenged, dominant open carrier in

The head of the U.S. Military Sealift Command predicted Saturday that an unspecified number of roll-

United Arab Shipping Co. next month will add a second Italian port to its inbound service from the M

A ruling by a U.S. district court judge in Oregon may force railroads to place a greater priority on

A U.S. Naval battle group headed by the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln changed course Monday to ev

Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello plans to counter U.S. objections to Brazil's trade prac

U.S.-based Petro-Hunt soon will sign an oil-prospecting contract for western Siberia, the unofficial

A record $37 billion worth of Brazilian exports would still be a modest figure for a nation of 145 m

Worldwide container carrying capacity will soar between 20 percent and 60 percent by 1995 from the a

Fokker NV, the Dutch aerospace group, is bracing for something unusual: head- on competition.

The Export-Import Bank has agreed to a $56.1 million grant to help finance $125 million in U.S. expo

THE BUNDESBANK WILL MARK the first anniversary of German monetary union by holding its regularly sch

The Journal of Commerce promoted two members of its circulation sales department, John Hoey, circula

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Monday, while the deutsche mark rose in trades not involving the d

ALPINE PASSES BLOCKED TO PROTEST TRUCK TRAFFICINNSBRUCK, Austria - Activists from the enviro

Hapag-Lloyd AG is seeking to reduce costs through decentralization and is delegating more financial

MANUFACTURING RISES IN WESTERN GERMANYFRANKFURT, Germany - Western German manufacturing outp

In an era when the U.S. government is trying to climb out of its $100 billion- plus annual trade def