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As of Aug. 28, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

* Richard Lawrence - Trade Scene 14A * Don C. Becker - Publisher's Notebook 16A* Craig Dunla

Workers on a Soviet tanker went on strike last week in an attempt to get their salaries paid in hard

Italy's borders remained closed to most Austrian trucks Tuesday, despite a tentative agreement betwe

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will conduct special safety inspections at large p

Quast & Co., a Chicago-based freight forwarder and customs broker, is introducing a freight consolid

FMC TARIFF RULE TAKES EFFECT OCT. 26WASHINGTON - A Federal Maritime Commission ruling that a

An insurance company claims official and a Boston area car dealer told the anxious motorist to go ah

Traders, shippers, investors and common citizens wearied by years of excessive bureaucracy all stand

Aug. 28, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

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Lufthansa AG Tuesday registered a 3 million deutsche mark pretax loss ($1.93 million) for the first

Problems with cargo damage and resistance by Aeroflot to giving business to other carriers may signi

SHUTDOWN POSTPONED AT SAUDI REFINERYA major maintenance shutdown at the Jubail refinery in S

Aug. 28, 1990 No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley r33.5

New York Mercantile Exchange Aug. 27, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

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

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Aug. 28, 1990Bid AskedCopper-

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

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