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The statutory Australian Wheat Board confirmed it had signed an agreement for the sale of 100 millio

Freight rates for supertankers loading Persian Gulf cargoes have slumped despite National Iranian Ta

MEXICO SEEN IMPORTING LESS SUGAR IN 1990-91Mexico's sugar imports are expected to drop 700,0

The Federal Maritime Commission probe of rate malpractices in the trades between Asia and the United

Two of the United Kingdom's biggest insurance companies, General Accident Insurance Group PLC and Co

Although the insurance industry is under financial stress, the number of insolvencies has not reache

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The Danish shipping line A/S Dampskibsselskabet Torm will resume service to Liberia, and other lines

Complaints about the Federal Maritime Commission's Automated Tariff Filing Informationsystem are unj

Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement, the French line that operates services to the Middle East, plans t

Soviet and U.S. shipping officials expect to meet this spring to discuss maritime issues, a high-ran

Two Ping-Pong balls crisscrossed the table as the agile duo played two games in one. No cham

Staunch German and British opposition to U.S. policy forced abrupt postponement of a high-level alli

The Maritime Administration earlier this week denied a request by Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. to add f

The Bush administration, pressing ahead with its Enterprise for the Americas development program, is

ECONOMY CONTRACTS AT REVISED 2 PERCENT RATEWASHINGTON - The economy's output of goods and se

The separatist movement in Quebec is no threat to North American free trade, native Quebecers and th

Corporate America is on trial, in a sense, in Room 706 of the Cook CountyCriminal Courts Bui

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is drawing up a strategy for its March 11 meeting

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 212.56 up 1.91 which compares w

FUEL OIL-MIDWEST Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing th

A U.S. Export-Import Bank loan to a Thai contractor will give U.S. manufacturers a shot at equipping

A fourth grade teacher in Fond du Lac, Wis., is gaining national recognition for her efforts to prom

American military personnel who die while in the service - during war or peace - are covered by a $5

USF&G POST NET LOSS FOR FOURTH QUARTERBALTIMORE, Md. - Fourth quarter at USF&G Corp. showed

Czechoslovakia Tuesday reached a milestone in its march toward a free market economy by enacting a n

The State Department will monitor foreign longshore work activities to provide the Attorney General

FAR EAST CONFERENCE CUTS MIDEAST SURCHARGELONDON - The Far Eastern Freight Conference announ

Feb. 27, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

CSX Corp. stock was up $2.50 to $37.88 Wednesday afternoon following a story in The Journal of Comme

The U.S. dollar was mixed again Wednesday as traders remained undecided whether to buy or sell.<

The Soviet Union is unlikely to benefit from the House Agriculture Committee's approval of $475 mill

The time may be approaching for a long-awaited downward price correction in U.S. cotton prices from

Spain's Iberia Airlines is seeking to acquire a 40 percent interest in the Dominican Republic's mone

The date was May 1, 1948. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was retiring from the Army, vowing never to run

As of Feb. 27, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

U.S. agricultural subsidies for some commodity grains have dropped significantly since the U.S.-Can

YELLOW FREIGHT CUTS FUEL SURCHARGEOVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight System Inc. said it p

Gloomy predictions about a flood of distressed ship sales from troubled Norwegian investment compani

An associate membership at the Chicago Board of Trade sold Tuesday for $224,000, up $14,000 from the