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SEA-LAND TO OPEN MORE OFFICES IN CHINASea-Land Service Inc. said it will open sales offices

ISRAELI COURT BARS GENERAL STRIKETEL AVIV, Israel - Businessmen won a temporary court injunc

President Bush said he has asked his "top people" to come up with recommendations by next week on wh

Southern Pacific Transportation Corp.'s new trackage rights into Chicago will improve its ability to

When the Port of Los Angeles on Jan. 1 unveils its new customer service division, it will join what

A Canadian air show official said late last week it has become the first Western organization to app

Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group Inc. announced price increases for a number of commodity chemicals,

A new containership was completed in November for Hamburg-Sud, a leading German shipowner and the pa

TEAC Corp. agreed to pay the Federal Maritime Commission over $138,000 to settle charges that the Ja

No major obstacles exist to block the Port of Seattle from taking over operation of the billion-doll

Sadek Boussena, OPEC's president, scolded world oil markets Thursday for comfortably ignoring the re

Oil storage and terminal operator Oiltanking Singapore is studying a S$50 million (US$25 million) ex

A consumer group is challenging economic forecasts Boston Edison Co. is using to justify the need fo

The cost of shipping export coal to port loading terminals by rail is going to go up in 1991.

Christopher L. Koch was sworn in as the chairman of the Federal Maritime Com- mission last week, ple

Nov. 30, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

IT'S A WAY OF LIFE to speak in euphemisms in Washington. It's de rigueur for battling politi

METROPOLITAN STEVEDORE CO. (Wilmington, Calif.) - John M. Elliott was named assistant vice president

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Nov. 30, 1990 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

Fear of a military takeover in the Soviet Union is raising doubts about plans to lift export control

After seven years of robust growth, Canada's economy has officially slipped into recession, accordin

Failure to reach agreement this week in the Uruguay Round of trade talks could mean an escalation of

P&O Containers Ltd. said it will launch a new agency company in Antwerp, Belgium, on Jan. 1.

Spurred by the latest oil price shock and faced with growing regulations to curb pollution, utilitie

Sadek Boussena, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' president and Algeria's oil minis

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Negotiations for new dock labor contracts went down to the wire Friday in nearly every port worked b

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Nov. 30, 1990Dubai Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel

The Australian plastics industry is hitting back at its critics. After years of being the vi

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Modernization of the Soviet fleet could release a large amount of surplus ship capacity onto the wor

The cooperative agreement signed last week by All Nippon Airways and USAir is primarily passenger or

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1348 (Nov. 30, 1990) Previous day - 1340 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

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Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Malaysia's Perbadanan Nasional Shipping Line Berhad jointly ordered a new ga

Coffee authorities here lauded proposed Colombian Senate laws that permit increased coffee export by

Consumer prices in Tokyo climbed at their fastest rate in more than eight years in November, fanning

The Australian government is expected soon to designate a second Australian- own ed global air cargo