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LAWMAKERS SEEK AID TO GIVE TO FARMERSWASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee members on Thu

The country's 12 principal ports recorded an aggregate 3 percent increase in traffic in fiscal 1990-

An explosion Wednesday at the state-owned Trintoc oil refinery killed one worker and injured 12, off

POLICE QUERY JAPANESE FUTURES MERCHANTTOKYO - Police are investigating alleged violations of

June 6, 1991 Copper Total, 24,945. Gold Total, .1,768,822.Silver Total, .265,169,089.

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills called Thursday for an action plan to revitalize the Uruguay R

Canadian trucking, rail and shipping companies say they are being squeezed by government taxes and p

U.S. and Japanese carriers urged the Federal Maritime Commission to abandon sanctions it proposed to

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

U.S. gasoline sales this summer probably will decline for the second straight year, unless the reces

With New Jersey gasoline terminals likely to close on summer days when ozone levels are exceptionall

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

US MARINE INSURERS PREPARING FOR GROWTHSTE. ADELE, Quebec - Things are looking up for U.S. m

US AND GREECE SIGN NEW AVIATION ACCORDThe United States and Greece expanded the rights of ai

IRAQI OIL CHIEF URGES LIFTING OF SANCTIONSAMMAN, Jordan - Iraq's oil minister, Ossama Abdel-

American truckers' expansion into Canada continues, with Schneider National Inc. taking over operati

Further signs are emerging of China's return to the good graces of overseas lenders, even as the Uni

Craig Dunlap joined The Journal of Commerce as a copy editor in Phillipsburg, N.J., in 1977. The fol

A Drexel University atmospheric chemist who has flown through smoke billowingfrom Kuwait's b

June 6, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

YELLOW SHELVES PLAN TO HIKE RATESOVERLAND PARK, Kan. Yellow Freight System Inc. abruptly ca

Vista Performance Polymers is talking with about 25 companies about the use of a new high-performanc

Malpractice insurance costs are as much as 15 times higher in parts of the United States than in Can

Zurich Group, Europe's second-largest insurance company, increased net profits to 387 million Swiss

Exports of such high-value commodities as meat are helping both steamship lines and the U.S. economy

A Soviet exchange began trading standardized grain contracts Thursday, a significant step in the cou

The world's largest gold mine, the Anglo American Corp.'s Freegold complex in the Orange Free State,

Thousands of Barrels Week Week WeekEnded Ended Ended5-31 5-24

Lavino Shipping Agencies Inc. has been appointed Southern California steamship agency representative

A Florida senator Tuesday urged the Bush administration to press the Soviet Union to stop helping Cu

American Society of Transportation and Logistics, seminar on inbound transportation and purchasing,

"Retrofiting," has become a buzzword of the inland marine insurance industry, as they describe the p

The New York Insurance Department expects to rule on a request for a 25.1 percent rate hike in worke

In the 1980s, when U.S. exports were weak and vessels returned to Asia half empty, Direct Container

Two Overseas Private Investment Corp. trade missions to Southern Africa over the past two years are

U.K. Minister of Agriculture John Gummer said Wednesday that May's decision by European Community fa

June 5, 1991 Copper Total, 24,945. Gold Total, .1,760,099.Silver Total, .263,306,586.

1735 (June 5, 1991) Previous day - 1752 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The Institute of International Container Lessors expects the world container- leasing fleet to reach

A proposed free trade agreement with Mexico would be likely to perpetuate a system of squalid border