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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

Repairing the public image of the shipping industry is possibly the most important task of the decad

American President Cos., hoping to capitalize on a possible free trade agreement between the United

Assurances Generales de France (AGF), France's second largest state-owned insurance company, and Spa

Calling it a "misunderstanding," Teamster President William J. McCarthy this week withdrew the names

The Federal Maritime Commission proposed retaliatory measures to counter the government of Venezuela

The European Community and the European Free Trade Association made a breakthrough Tuesday in talks

Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner, taking a swipe at a key aviation lawmaker, vowed to figh

The head of the Greater Rockford Airport Authority believes he may have a solution to Chicago's airp

Despite last week's targeting of Brazil for 700,000 metric tons of U.S. export bonus wheat, it may b

The natural rubber industry called Tuesday for further review of a suggestion that the International

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

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 214.22 up 0.16 which compares wi

The Bush administration won initial congressional approval for two more years of special negotiating

A reported secret deal between President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Russian leader Boris N. Yeltsin m

Saudi Arabia has completed a $4.5 billion loan with Western banks to help meet a yawning budget defi

European transport ministers meeting in Turkey next week are seeking to beginplans for a coo

US CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT IN APRILConsumer prices rose a modest 0.2 percent in Apr

Thermo King Corp. founder Joseph A. Numero, whose truck refrigeration systems revolutionized the foo

Average weekly earnings of U.S. workers other than on farms fell 0.1 percent in April, after adjustm