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S. KOREA POSTS SURPLUS IN CURRENT ACCOUNTSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea recorded a current

The United States, with Japanese support, Tuesday warned that "cultural exemptions" aimed at ensurin

A huge project to build a landbridge across southern Thailand to link the Indian and Pacific oceans

Nippon Cargo Airlines this week became the third airline to start filing documents withthe U.S. Cust

The Interstate Commerce Commission approved Canadian National Railway Co.'s petition to lease an int

J.T. TOPPING DIES; WAS ROADWAY OFFICIALAKRON, Ohio - John T. "Tom" Topping, vice chairman of

Dodd W. Fiori was named senior vice president and general manager of the marketing division at NYK L

CALIF. GOVERNOR SIGNS QUAKE-RELIEF MEASUREA mandatory earthquake insurance relief measure wa

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture may decide in the next month whether to refill the 147-million-bu

The National Front coalition is making headway in its battle to cut the deficit, Finance Minister Ma

Honduras asked its oil suppliers, Venezuela and Mexico, for a 30 percent credit on oil purchases fol

Spot shortages of radio operators aboard cargo ships being activated as part of the Persian Gulf mil

At last, I've met shipping executives who are bullish about the future. Mind you, I've talke

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Aug. 28, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

For a while, the discussion in Guenter Rohrmann's office centers on suggestions that the air freight

The long, sunbaked quays at Port Rashid were silent Monday. Only one small French containership was

The number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil and natural gas rose by 15 to 1,002 in the week ended Aug.

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Aug. 28, 1990Dubai Crude Oil(Dollars Per B

Britain's aerospace industry is studying the effects of glasnost, and whether a decline in Western n

A pile of dusty packages of imported Vietnamese crackers and a few jars of preserved vegetables sit

The Soo Locks connecting Lake Superior with Lake Huron will close for the winter on Jan. 15, the Arm

Tue., Aug. 28, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Monday at 240.85 off 3.86 which compares w

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Two-and-a-half years after losing their jobs to replacement workers, 1,400 New York-area tugboat wor

JAPANESE, US INVESTORS JOIN GATX VENTUREGATX Corp. said GATX/CL Air, a joint venture between

Gholamreza Aghazadeh, Iran's oil minister, Tuesday called for the Organization of Petroleum Exportin

Oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed sharply higher Tuesday in volatile trading.

BANK OF JAPAN EXPECTS PRICE INCREASES SOONYasushi Mieno, Bank of Japan governor, said Tuesda

The next time you drive around the lowered gates at a railroad crossing, your image - and your licen

To Union Pacific Railroad and its shippers, the "Marysville sub" in northeast Kansas is a famous bot

Canada's large shipping industry, already staggering from declining grain shipments, has been dealt

Two or three new 1,000-foot coal carriers may have to be added to the Great Lakes fleetto meet the i

Despite the possibility of a U.S. recession and the uncertainty surrounding recent sharply higher oi

The Pennsylvania Medical Society, representing 19,000 physicians in the state, has filed suit in fed

A Polish entrepreneur said he had opened General Motors Corp.'s first sales outlet here since World

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