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A split between the United States and European governments over expansion of a multinational maritim

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

The Port of Duluth-Superior handled 37.025 million metric tons of cargo in 1990, narrowly surpassing

A scramble to secure supplies of West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery pushed prices o

Jan. 25, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

Israel's government began offering war-risk insurance for ships, aircraft and most types of cargo in

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

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Jan. 25, 1991Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

Japan petrochemical production hit record highs last year, driven by growing demand from car and app

DEVALUATION COULD HURT UK INTEREST RATESLONDON - U.K. Prime Minister John Major told members

The State Department said Friday it had ordered non-essential government personnel and families of e

Finnish oil and chemicals group Neste Oy is eyeing Indonesia as the possible site of a US$2 billion

Shipping lines carrying cargo from the U.S. West Coast to the Middle East will increase their fuel s

Dole Fresh Fruit Co. said it took over the vessel operations of Intercontinenta l Transportation Ser

In the early 1970s, Middle East oil producers used what they called "the oil weapon" to try to influ

International Petroleum Exchange Jan. 25, 1991*Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Wall Street interest in the shipping industry is fading as fewer and fewer analysts and investment h

Czechoslovakia's trade deficit continued to widen in December, reaching 6.2 billion korunas ($221 m

The Japanese economy will continue to expand throughout 1991 despite the gulf war, unless the fighti

The term ginseng is often equated with the exotic, medicinal root grown primarily in China and South

Italy is making slow progress in internationalizing its economy and has yet to catch up with the lev

When anxious Egyptian hoarders stripped store shelves of bread during the first days of the Persian

The proposal to draw federal funds to a hoped-for cargo and maintenance airport in northwest Arkansa

Work will proceed to bring Hong Kong's new airport into operation "as early as possible," a senior o

Seething at a new federal law that caps crop prices at 1990 levels for five years, the nation's farm

1466 (Jan. 25, 1991) Previous day - 1465 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Puerto Rico signed a contract to buy 500,000 barrels of high-sulfur residual fuel oil a month from t

LAWMAKER SEEKS PROBE OF GASOLINE PRICINGSuspecting price-gouging at the gasoline pump, Rep.

LAST WEEK, OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES PRICES traded within a range that reflected the belief that the mar

Gearbulk Container Services is dropping out of the Pacific trades because full-service intermodal ca

U.S. Department of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter Friday said the Soviets currently remain eligible for

FIVE GULF TANKERS TRANSITED SUEZ FRIDAYCAIRO, Egypt - The Suez Canal Authority said five oil

Orix Commodities Singapore Pte, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese firm Orix Commodities Corp

China is planning more than a dozen large-scale petrochemical projects for the next five years, the

The leader of Japan's most powerful business group Friday called on the Japanese government to open

New York Mercantile Exchange Jan. 24, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Friday Jan. 25, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representin

The rise in the mid-January Tokyo consumer prices index, following two months of declines, reinforce

As the release date of the Treasury Department's study on banking reform draws near, insurers are in

Sales of board games depicting Persian Gulf mayhem are a hit with customers as manufacturers move qu