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Standard & Poor's upgraded its credit ratings of Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach revenue

The United States and Japan rejected proposals for formal talks between the Organization of Petroleu

North Atlantic shipping is beset by problems, and industry sources see little hope that carrier prof

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture authorized an additional $5 million in fiscal 1991 GSM-102 credit

The United States must be firm, tough and fair with Japan because the" Japanese approach" of patient

The International Trade Commission is due by April 1 to file with the Commerce Department its findin

Sita, the aviation industry's leading telecommunications network, is close to establishing an electr

BRAZIL JOINS OTHERS IN CUTTING POLISH DEBTBRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil has decided to join the

Friday Mar. 22, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

Boeing Co. will spend $1.5 billion over the next five years to build an assembly line for 777 jumbo

The use of Peru's seaports is expected to increase two- or threefold over the next four months, as r

One of Kuwait's two main ports has reopened to shipping, but the other remains closed and in a bad s

Saudi Arabia is cutting back oil production to whittle down a 40-million- to 60-million-barrel stock

With its plan for unifying Philadelphia's port facilities stalled in the New Jersey legislature, a b

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 Thursday at 219.86 up 1.22 which compares

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The European Community's disputes with Austria and Switzerland over truck transit rights remain a ma

Polish Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki said Friday that falling inflation should make it poss

Robert Malott, chairman of FMC Corp., says some of his basic philosophies on the international marke

Selling kosher food to a predominantly Buddhist country may seem a bit of a reach, but Jerry Krupni

Mar. 22, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

Bringing back U.S. forces and their equipment from the Persian Gulf will take much longer than it to

Foreign insurance companies are eagerly - perhaps anxiously - awaiting a further opening of Taiwan's

PETROFINA TO EXPLORE FOR OIL, GAS IN UGANDABRUSSELS, Belgium - A subsidiary of Petrofina SA

As the U.S. real estate market was poised for its biggest downturn since the Depression, foreign ban

American Electric Power Service Corp. will include more Western tonnage in its coal purchases, it sa

Pan Am Corp. and Trans World Airlines Inc. are both running on a "touch and go" basis despite pendin

Chevron Corp. will build the first ethylene export terminal in the United States, the company said.<

The table "Top 100 Ship Lines" in The Journal of Commerce, March 19, Page 8B, misidentified the line

Some Western shipowners withdrew from Soviet contracts after the Soviets failed to make lease paymen

President Bush told a senior Japanese official that congressional frustration with Japan has more to

The state's House of Representatives approved a bill requiring large ports to explain why they are c

Japan's trading houses have increased their bids for Saudi term naphtha for fiscal 1991 only slightl

SINGAPORE CHANGING TEXTILE QUOTA SYSTEMSingapore said it is changing its quota system for te

NEW YORK OIL HEATING ASSOCIATION INC. (New York) - John D. Maniscalco was named executive vice pres

A prominent Soviet economist flatly warned that the Soviet Union is "on a path to hyperinflation," w

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Mar. 22, 1991Bid AskedCopper-

Czechoslovakia's two main oil refineries, faced with an increasinglyuncertain supply of oil