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EC AGREES TO FIGHT PREDATORY PRACTICESBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community transportation

COULD TRUCKERS LOSE BY WINNING the fight for longer combination vehicles? Some motor carrier

The U.S. appeal of a pork subsidies case decided under the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement is widel

The Japanese government may announce next week a $500 million contribution to a U.S.-proposed fund t

DOE DISBURSES MOST OF OIL FROM SPR SALEThe Department of Energy disbursed 15.2 million barre

1609 (Mar. 28, 1991) Previous day - 1645 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

PPG INDUSTRIES CEO PREDICTS RECORD YEARPPG Industries earnings in 1992 should rebound sharpl

The gulf crisis and a stronger Singapore dollar combined to reduce Neptune Orient Lines profitabilit

A dull California legislative session woke up last week with the long- simmering war between insurer

INDEPENDENTS OFFERING BROADER PRODUCT LINEIndependent insurance agencies, facing declining p

Personal lines insurers appear to be the most likely candidates for insolvency in the 1990s, accordi

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*Singapore International Monetary Exchange Mar. 28, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barre

Trade friction between the United States and Japan, already simmering in a dispute over rice, is abo

BEIRUT PORT REOPENS TO COMMERCIAL SHIPSThe Port of Beirut in Lebanon reopened to commercial

Mar. 28, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

The weatherman took a visitor to his office window here last Wednesday and pointed to a brown-tinted

Saudi Arabia Marketing & Refining Co. has rejected at least one Japanese trading house's bid for che

REGIONAL BLOCS Strategic Alliances for the New Europe. April 10. Lester, Pa. Contact Hans

Rapid development of fish farms in Southeast Asia is causing a sharp jump in seafood shipments to Ja

The dollar soared to its highest levels in a year last week and likely will extend its gains on incr

The Port of New Orleans will lose 5 percent to 8 percent of its container business because the navig

The Quebec business community is sharply divided over last week's recommendation by a special consti

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

COFFEE, SUGAR AND COCOA EXCHANGE (New York) - Charles H. Falk was elected to a two-year term as cha

Farmers will plant their smallest soybean crop in 15 years thisseason but will sow slightly more cor

The Port of Long Beach, Calif., edged past the Port of New York and New Jersey to become the nation'

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago3/28 3/27 Change % Change:

Aluminum ingots- $1,435-$1,480 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Friday Mar. 29, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

THE DRY BULK SHIP CHARTER MARKET continued to plummet last week. The Baltic Freight Index, t

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

SINGAPORE LIFTS BAN ON TRADE WITH KUWAITSingapore lifted its ban on trade with Kuwait with e

Lower textile prices sent the Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index lower for the holiday-short

Many of Kansas' and Missouri's highest elected officials asked Secretary of Transportation Samuel Sk

The Coast Guard's much-anticipated proposal to set annual fees for recreational vessels over 16 feet

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher will take a new tack this week to try to open Japan's market wid

Japan once again prompted the longest chapter in the annual U.S. report on who's "in" and who's "out

A tri-national body is looking for a consultant to project future trade flows through the Panama Ca

MATSON NAVIGATION CO. (San Francisco) - Mary Jane Agnew was named manager of district sales in South