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The Port of Longview said it entered an agreement to provide Arco Products Co., a division of Atlant

Allstate Life Insurance Co., reversing a decision it made two weeks ago, has decided to accept new a

RAIL LINE ABANDONMENTS are receiving greater scrutiny from the Interstate Commerce Commission.

When some 35,000 sailors were ordered to the Middle East, a large chunk of Norfolk's economy went wi

Economic growth this year is not expected to exceed a bare 2.5 percent, the government said Friday.

Japan's two largest carmakers Friday announced increased production in July, but while exports by To

John Bowers, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, is requesting his union loc

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CHASE INSURANCE HOLDING CORP. (Houston) - Peter M. Wallner was named president of Chase Reinsurance

A top U.S. rice industry official said last week he was "extremely optimistic" that Japan would agre

Insurance companies are profiteering from the Middle East crisis by imposing excessive surcharges on

Even before the Tokyo stock market went into its latest tailspin, investors had begun to worry about

After almost three years, Maersk Line is preparing to drop the other shoe on the North Atlantic tra

Pan Ocean Shipping Co. is expected to be put up for sale shortly, finally closing out a scandal that

FRENCH TRADE DEFICIT WIDENS TO $894 MILLIONFrance registered a provisional seasonally adjust

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Aug. 24, 1990 Copper Total, 8,068. Gold Total, .1,522,667.Silver Total, .254,780,345.

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A California task force on trade competitiveness says that education in the languages, cultures and

FLORIDA NURSERY FORMS NETHERLANDS SUBSIDIARYMargo Nursery Farms Inc. of Miami announced Thur

On a customary August night, Hilmet Ceylan rents 20, maybe 25, rooms in his down-at-the-heel hotel i

EX-IM BANK APPROVES FIRST SUBSIDIZED LOANThe Export-Import Bank has approved its first subsi

Corn buying by Japanese trading houses has come to a virtual halt over the past three weeks because

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SINGAPORE BEGINS BAN ON IRAQI-FLAGGED SHIPSSingapore has banned all Iraqi-flagged ships from

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is blasting, shoveling, chipping and scooping its way through New Y

Recent U.S. Department of Agriculture figures showed a glaring lag in maturity for the U.S. corn and

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Great Lakes ports are far more competitive than East Coast ports in the handling of steel and machin

Japan's passion for pricey foreign artworks won't eliminate its enormous trade surplus, but could he

A Toyota executive has told railroad executives the damage rate for vehicles during transport is muc

Richard Swaebe thought his ship had come in 1983 when Sears World Trade Inc. asked for his assistanc

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JAPANESE TO LAUNCH 'MICROMACHINE' PROJECTJapan plans a multimillion-dollar research project

E.D. & F. Mann Ltd., one of the Tokyo Sugar Exchange's largest associate members, is contesting an e

HIMONT INC. (Milan, Italy) - Paolo Morrione was appointed president and chief executive, filling the

Aug. 24, 1990 *CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents per barrel)Strike Ca

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

Boeing Co. will lose $385 million on the contract to build and equip two of its 747 jumbo jets to be