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Climbs 4 percent From 1989 U.S. Ports' International Freight in 20-Foot Container Equivalent

Emery Worldwide freighters are hauling the bulk of the U.S. Postal Service's annual surge of holiday

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Dec. 14, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

President Bush Thursday cleared the way for the sale of advanced computer equipment to China, India

The Sri Lankan economy is showing unexpected resilience, with the impact of the gulf crisis not as b

Richard M. Page, 57, vice chairman of Sedgwick Group PLC, will take retirement at the end of this ye

After months of deadlock, there may be room for some flexibility in the European Community's stance

JAPANESE CONSORTIUM TO MODERNIZE REFINERYTOKYO - Japanese consortium comprising Mitsui and C

Dec. 14, 1990 Copper Total, 10,142. Gold Total, .1,459,495.Silver Total, .259,738,192.

BOC GROUP (Murray Hill, N.J.) - Patrick Rich was named chief executive effective from Jan. 1.

The directors of the London Futures and Options Exchange and the Baltic Futures and Options Exchange

Drivers pay much higher insurance rates for nearly two dozen types of cars and trucks that have the

At the far end of the world's largest port lies the world's biggest dump of polluted river silt.

When shipping lines the size of Sea-Land Service Inc. and American President Lines Ltd. talk about s

Plans to sell off almost half of Australia's Qantas have been stalled because of operating losses su

In the middle of last week, the speculators who had bet on a rise in ocean freight futures prices du

Dec. 14, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 11, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Dec. 14, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The U.S. ambassador to China apologized for calling human rights demonstrators in Seattle "a bunch o

INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT FELL IN NOVEMBERU.S. industrial production fell a seasonally adjusted 1.7

Consolidated Rail Corp. and CP Rail reached a tentative trackage rights agreement that will give CP

BEFORE THE BIG TRUCK battle gets under way, the combatants might fight over where the battleground i

Alaska Airlines will spend $1.5 million enlarging its existing terminals at two airports in southeas

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

* Customs Update 4A * South Africa's Fruit Exports Gain 4A* Howard Simon - Simon Says 7A

Waterford Wedgwood PLC, hit by a crippling three-month strike earlier this year and by worries abou

Coffee prices moved higher Thursday on technical buying in the wake of recent losses and the absence

ILFC LEASES CRAFT TO 10 AIRLINESCENTURY CITY, Calif. - International Lease Finance Corp., a

RETAIL SALES DIP SEEN SIGN OF RECESSIONThursday's report on November retail sales - though n

On company bulletin boards nationwide, notices like this are proliferating: "The Accounting

More than US$150 million in loans is being granted from the Japanese and German governments to assis

A congressional investigating agency said the maritime industry would be one of the losers if the cu

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Wednesday at 220.95 off 1.11 which compare

U.S. farmers are cautiously optimistic that the Bush administration's decision to finance agricultur

JAPANESE REDUCE TRADE SURPLUSJapan recorded an unadjusted trade surplus of $2.27 billion dur

SOVIET AID ACCUMULATES AT PORTS, RAIL STATIONSMOSCOW - Foreign aid streaming into the Soviet

Phillips Petroleum Co. will spend $1.5 billion on capital projects in 1991, compared with the $1.3 b

During more than three years under Chapter 11 protection, Todd Shipyards Corp. had to face a hard tr

U.S. coal export volume in 1991 is expected to be flat, after increasing from 1989 to 1990, the Nati