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Some U.S. importers awaiting shipments from the Mediterranean will experience a delay of 12 days or

The China coast always has been notorious for pirates. Nowadays most operate on land, forsaking cutl

Hong Kong people are not known for their eagerness to take to the streets. They are docile, hard-wor

Free trade zones in developing countries are only as efficient as their locations, the surrounding

After a decade of solid growth at its present 73-acre site west of Miami International Airport, the

CAPITAL ACCOUNT DEFICIT INCREASES IN GERMANYFRANKFURT, Germany - Western and eastern Germany

MISSION SEEKS TO BOOST US FIRMS IN KUWAITA high-ranking U.S. delegation arrived in Kuwait Ci

Japan's major banks have increased their presence in Spain, but their Japanese clients have yet to m

American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, said Tuesday itssecond- quarter earnings would come

The offer by European Community Commission President Jacques Delors, which clears the way for Britai

The European Commission will start legal action against 10 European Community countries next week if

A federal district court decision threatens over $500 million of foreign investment in the U.S. fish

Natural gas companies could overcome their difficulties in securing financing for capital projects i

PHILIPP & LION LOSS PUT AT $5 MILLIONLONDON - Failed international metal traders Philipp & L

The need for many U.S. foreign trade zones, which offer companies a temporary haven from U.S. impor

Low export sales of U.S. soyoil have been an unquestionably bearish factor for prices this year, but

Port-oriented industry brings business to ports and railroads alike, so mutual promotion of such ind

General concern about U.S. new-crop cotton supplies in the first quarter of the 1991-92 marketing ye

1642 (May 15, 1991) Previous day - 1639 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

BANK OF AMERICA (San Francisco) - Colm McCarthy, a Bank of America vice president, was named country

Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Monday he would like to see another meeting of the

GATT ASKED TO HALT SLAUGHTER OF DOLPHINSEnvironmentalists Tuesday urged the world trade body

The president of the New York Shipping Association thinks "great strides" were made in cutting costs

The rate-setting conference representing carriers in the trade between the U.S. West Coast and the M

FMC Corp.'s Agricultural Chemical Division, based in Philadelphia, said it reached an agreement with

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UNITED ARAB SHIPPING EXPANDS SERVICECRANFORD, N.J. - United Arab Shipping Co. is expanding i

JAPAN SEES 3.6 PERCENT DROP IN MACHINERY ORDERSJapan's machinery orders from the private sec

THERE'S A LITTLE MUD-SLINGING going on over the Port of San Francisco's reorganization plan.

It's the cycle of death and rebirth, with a maritime twist. In an imaginative measure that b

DOT RELAXES SECURITY AT US AIRPORTSCiting a reduced threat of terrorist activity, the U.S. g

U.S. government emergency plans to safeguard energy supplies worked well during the recent Persian G

As debate in the U.S. Congress heats up over renewing China's preferential trade status, support for

Last week's derailment of a long-planned merger by two California electric utilities may signal a ch

New York Mercantile Exchange May 13, 1991*CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Aluminum ingots- $1,310-$1,320 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

May 13, 1991 Copper Total, 25,940. Gold Total, .1,432,327.Silver Total, .261,327,977.

Tuesday May 14, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Improvements in rail service to inland points has steamship lines and competing ports thinking about

General Motors Corp. plans to build water-treatment facilities at its 35 manufacturing plants in Mex