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NIPPON OIL TO STUDY REFINERY PROJECTTOKYO - Japan's Nippon Oil Co. is undertaking a study on

3,500 EVACUATED FROM CRUISE SHIP FIRESAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - More than 3,500 passengers and

Negotiators broke the deadlock on agricultural trade Wednesday that had imperiled a four-year old ef

Hercules Inc., which produces everything from rocket propellant to the fragrance used in Giorgio col

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reacted quickly to the potential danger of contaminated fo

Massachusetts Maritime Academy officials expect their next president to be a naval aviator with a ba

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Demand for marine containers is expected to increase about 30 percent in the next two years, accordi

A Federal Maritime Commission proposal to streamline marine terminal regulation would exempt stevedo

Feb. 20, 1991 Copper Total, 12,879. Gold Total, .1,556,232.Silver Total, .264,464,763.

Aluminum ingots- $1,475-$1,495 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

Wednesday Feb. 20, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

The United States is ready to permit sales of fiber-optic communications equipment and advanced per

Carriers on the Pacific, desperate to capture what little trade wind might be blowing, are intensify

Tanker operators are enjoying an unprecedented but probably short-lived bonanza as the Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf war has left a crater in Israel's economy, forcing it to revise optimistic growth

Citrus fruit, Israel's biggest cash crop, is being squeezed by the Persian Gulf war. Farmers

House members told U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Wednesday that they would oppose a free tra

Black's Law Dictionary defines marine insurance as "a contract whereby one party (the insurer), for

The European Commission Wednesday approved a temporary aid package to help European Community-based

The United States initiated the current negotiations aimed at eliminating shipbuilding subsidies amo

Efforts by international freight forwarders to convert to paperless business systems may have been s

IRAQ OWES $4.9 BILLION TO FRANCE, REPORTS SAYFifteen years of special relations with Iraq ha

The Mitsui Taiyo Kobe Bank Ltd. has agreed to acquire a majority interest in Dellsher Investment Co.

The process of automating maritime tariffs takes another lurch forward in Washington today, with the

Four shipyards belonging to Avondale Industries Inc. have been classified as foreign trade zones, a

The federal trial of Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Doug Green opened Tuesday, with prosecutors pr

GEICO CORP. REPORTS FLAT OPERATING INCOMEWASHINGTON - Geico Corp. reported nearly flat opera

Steven R. Dillenbeck was appointed executive director of the Port of Long Beach, ending a 20-month e

The French government Tuesday brushed aside criticism of its high-definition television policy and s

The European Commission has begun an investigation into claims that Japan is discriminating against

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 213.08 off 0.59 which compares

Feb. 20, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Brazil's economy lurched deeper into crisis with news Tuesday of rapidly rising unemployment, highe

Germany will give $2.16 billion to the United States Wednesday to help pay for the Persian Gulf war,

The philosophy "adapt or die" may best explain the economic boom that Guatemala's non-traditional ex

Members of a key House committee gave the Bush administration's plan to make states pay for a greate

CNW HOLDINGS POSTS OPERATING INCOME FALLCHICAGO - Chicago and North Western Holdings Corp.,

The European Commission Wednesday moved closer to approving deep cuts in farm prices in a bid to con

The recent accident in a 20-year-old Japanese nuclear power plant was the result of a flaw in a reac