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A U.S. court of appeals here determined that passenger cruise lines are ''common carriers" as define

U.S. shipowners faced with skyrocketing insurance costs for vessels entering Middle Eastern waters w

Exports from the Western United States grew 20 percent, to $85 billion, last year, largely on the st

HOW IMPORTANT REALLY are standards? Vital, say some Canadians, pointing to the way many of t

Italy reopened its borders to Austrian trucks Friday, one week after closing them to protest Vienna'

A U.S. delegation is attempting to assure Japanese officials in Tokyo that U.S. hog producers are se

A top-ranking U.S. Department of Agriculture official said he expects the release this week of conse

Hoechst Celanese Corp. and Air Products and Chemicals Inc. are just two producers among many that an

Swire Pacific Ltd., the blue-chip trading and transport conglomerate, reported a lower interim profi

The federal government filed a civil suit against nine companies alleging they violated pollution la

CRUM AND FORSTER SETS SALE OF NAVCO CORP.BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Crum and Forster Inc., the Ne

Aug. 31, 1990 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

CHINA ECONOMIC ZONE SEEKS FOREIGN FUNDSHainan island, China's largest tropical island and bi

U.S. business leaders will brainstorm with East European officials at a Geonomics Institute seminar

Aug. 31, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

As of Aug. 31, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

Federal Express Corp.'s proposal to serve Mexico from Miami as well as Texas will allow it to develo

A combined German shipbuilding industry will be the third-largest in the world with orders of more t

Safety investigators this week put most of the blame on the U.S. Navy for a bizarre accident last ye

The 600-passenger Boeing Co. jetliner was cruising along at 37,000 feet when a Boeing vice president

EPA ADDS 106 SITES TO CLEANUP LISTThe Environmental Protection Agency said it added 106 haza

If the strike at Peru's state-owned mining company Mineroperu is not settled by Sept. 10, Southern P

In the style of the early days of the Reagan administration, the Commerce Department plans to lead a

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

Aug. 30, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

As had been widely anticipated, Japan's central bank raised the official discount rate by 0.75 perce

MORE WESTERN FIRMS ATTEND LEIPZIG FAIRThe biannual Leipzig trade fair opens Sunday with Germ

DATE OF AWARD: "E Star" Award on May 23, 1990. E Award in 1985. Proler also received the Tur

LACK OF RAIN TO CUT GHANA'S COCOA CROPACCRA, Ghana - Cocoa experts here say lack of rainfall

One of the colony's lesser known shipping companies turned in a 350 percent operating increase in pr

Japan Air Lines and the U.S. Customs Service have eliminated one of the most labor-intensive, arduou

Sea trials are expected to begin next week for the newest ship in the U.S. merchant fleet, but legal

Storms that swept through Northern Europe at the beginning of the year and problems with a recent It

Citicorp will be the newest entrant into the export credit insurance market in the fall with a progr

California's new "Earthquake Recovery Act" chides Congress for its failure to come up with a nationa

Most major railroads announced plans to increase freight rates by about 4 percent due to the recent

Karl-Heinz Sager's Senator Linie GmbH has never made a dime. It carries less than 2 percent

Three years ago, small containerships were cheap in West Germany. Karl-Heinz Sager, a former deputy

Crowley Maritime Corp. announced late Thursday that it is suspending its American Transport Lines se

CASTLE OIL CORP. (New Rochelle, N.Y.) - Ronald C. Seitz was promoted to vice president of sales admi