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Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry will ask the Finance Ministry for an infusion o

While Consolidated Rail Corp. continues jousting with CP Rail, the big Eastern carrier is quietly un

PAPER MILL-TOXIC FISH LINK STUDIED IN JAPANWaste from paper mills may be responsible for hig

DULUTH-SUPERIOR POSTS DROP IN 9-MONTH CARGOKANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Port of Duluth-Superior ha

Oct. 24, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

As of Oct. 24, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Wednesday Oct. 24, 1990 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

Oct. 24, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

A joint effort by 10 of the world's largest shipping lines to persuade their customers to conduct bu

TNT HOLLAND IMPOSES 2.65 PERCENT FUEL SURCHARGEHOLLAND, Mich. - TNT Holland Motor Express In

The battleship USS Iowa, on which 47 sailors died in a gun-turret explosion in 1989, will be retired

Alexander & Baldwin Inc. reported third-quarter net income of $22.2 million on revenue of $192.2 mil

After a decade of bullying the business sector, several former Sandinista leaders have shelved Marxi

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Oct. 24, 1990Bid AskedCopper-

An increase in India's operational shipping capacity is becoming evident for the first time in five

The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has awarded Caterpillar's Challenger 65 tr

Transactions concluded during the first six days of China's main billion- dollar export trade fair a

JAPAN BANKS TO CUT LONG-TERM PRIME RATEThe Industrial Bank of Japan and two other long-term

Intermodal drayage companies were urged Tuesday to oppose motor carrier efforts to gain permission t

The Soviet Union is expected to develop direct trade links with Taiwan soon. In the meantime, commer

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC is expected to report third quarter earnings of between 140 and 1

New York Mercantile Exchange Oct. 23, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

Globex, the international screen-based futures trading system whose projected start-up date has been

EARTHQUAKE STRIKES NORTH CALIF., NEVADALEE VINING, Calif. - Three of the four roads into Yos

It's very late in the congressional session, and maritime interests are sprinting to keep up with a

AMERICA WEST GETS OK FOR JAPANESE SERVICELAS VEGAS, Nev. - The Clark County Department of Av

Marine cargo surveyors are key players in international shipping. This group of skilled mari

The planning board in the town of Bucksport, Maine, turned thumbs down on a 180-megawatt coal-fired

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Tuesday at 229.70 up 1.14 which compares w

The U.S. dollar traded broadly lower Wednesday and was driven by technical factors that pushed the d

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's re-election to a third five-year term in power will mean

The MassCentral boys are at it again. The same bunch of short-line rail buffs at Massachuset

Nigeria is reconsidering its proposed ban on the export of raw cocoa, due to take effect in January

The introduction of commodity funds to Japanese markets would boost liquidity here and worldwide of

A near dearth of export bookings for corn to be shipped from the Great Lakes this fall, countered by

Votainer Consolidation Services (New York) Inc., an ocean freight consolidator, will open its own of

Oct. 24, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Timothy Gailey questions the strategic wisdom of two property/c

For two years, Mitchell Malicki has been in motion between Detroit and the Soviet Union, or Poland o

Compagnie Generale Maritime, a Paris-based steamship line, awarded $1,000 scholarships to four stude