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The nation's largest shippers' group asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to revise the emergenc

CARBIDE CANADA TO SELL BUSINESS TO US PARENTUnion Carbide Canada Ltd. approved a plan to sel

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. ordered three containerships at a total cost of 30 billion yen (US$225 mil

JAPAN EXPECTS GROWTH IN CAR IMPORTS TO SLOWGrowth of imported car sales in Japan is expected

UNDERWRITERS NATIONAL BANNED IN CALIFORNIACalifornia's Department of Insurance ordered Under

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Dec. 20, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

Even though railroads had to contend with softening traffic and sharply higher diesel fuel prices in

Ten Japanese banks are stumping up US$80 million in syndicated loans for a Chinese ethylene plant, o

Just a few months before the fourth round of the Energy Department's $2.5 billion Clean Coal Technol

SHIP FIRE DAMAGES ALGERIAN OIL PORTLONDON - Oil port installations in Arzew, Algeria, were b

A group of economists from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences urged the government to dust off war

The political pieces in the Massachusetts transportation puzzle began falling into place this week a

LINER SERVICE LINKS RIGA WITH UK, EUROPELIVERPOOL, England - A new liner service based in th

Ask Sir Jeffrey Sterling about shipping, and one receives a well-rehearsed reply about how a combina

When Jarka and Paul Bartl arrived in New York harbor from Czechoslovakia in 1965 during the infamous

DATE OF AWARD: "E" Award in August 1989.WHY THE AWARD WAS GIVEN:In the 1980s, MeDiCa

Peru and the International Monetary Fund have agreed on broad guidelines for economic reforms, clear

Indonesia, the world's third largest coffee producer, plans to launcha coffee futures contract next

The European Community plans an overhaul of farming next year that could improve the atmosphere in s

USTI NAD LABEM, Czechoslovakia - Filled with dangerous chemicals and maybe even unexploded weapons,

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

Prudential Insurance Co., the largest North American insurance company, said Thursday its Prudential

Heinz U.S.A.'s distribution and customer service center in Iowa City will beclosed by the en

It's that time of year. Kris Kringle, d.b.a. Santa Claus, has gotten the green light from th

Coastal Corp. said its ANR Iroquois Inc. subsidiary will increase its equity interest in Iroquois Ga

Dec. 20, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Dec. 20, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 36.9

Dec. 20, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Ford Motor Co.'s New Holland unit Thursday hitched its wagon to Fiat Group's FiatGeotech to form wha

EC'S GDP GROWTH FELL TO ZERO IN 2ND QUARTERBRUSSELS, Belgium - The second quarter of 1990 br

Already bearish outlooks toward Soviet demand for U.S. grain dimmed further after overnight news of

China is considering selling grain to the U.S.S.R. for cash to pay grain- laden farmers and alleviat

More foreign ships are operating in the Australian coastal trade. Foreign shipping companies

The local maritime industry is expected to produce revenues of S$2 billion (US$1 billion) this year,

The U.K. government late Wednesday announced that the North Sea Brent system would be allowed to con

Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., a key legislator on trade issues, expects the Bush administration to req

Japanese construction industry leaders said Thursday they feared complaints by a U.S.-German company

''Joint Venture to Market Spill Control Craft in US," an article on Page 3B of The Journal of Commer

The Port of Lake Charles is reaping the benefits of a change in U.S. law governing the allocation of