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The volume of merchant ships scrapped last year was the lowest for a quarter of a century, according

The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 231.13 off 0.64 which compares

OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES PRICES moved sharply upward last week, in line with a big jump in charter pric

Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange saw another rally Friday, with the expiring Au

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought 9,000 tons of coal under two contracts in weekly spot

Allowing only newer, quieter airplanes at New York and New Jersey metropolitan airports would ease t

EARNINGS JUMP AT AIRBORNE FREIGHTAirborne Freight Corp. earned $10 million, or 61 cents a sh

At a time when domestic new-car sales are struggling out of a slump, Toyota is busy mapping plans to

From Edward Mermell's vantage point in the East River, the homeward-bound cars on the Brooklyn-Queen

July 20, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

GATX REPORTS RISE IN EARNINGS GATX Corp. earned $17.9 million, or 75 cents a share, on reven

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RECALLS 122 WORKERSSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Southern Pacific Transportation Co.

JAPANESE OFFICIAL OPPOSES SOVIET AIDNAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama t

Hard currency is the vehicle by which Soviet ports and enterprises can modernize and compete in inte

JAPAN COMPLETES 50 PERCENT OF QUARTER CORN DEALSJapan's trading houses have completed about

Arco Chemical Co. said it would start a mothballed plant to help replace the methyl tertiary butyl e

Aluminum ingots- $1,530-$1,540 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

An electronic data interchange system to speed the clearance of cargo at the ports of Seattle and Ta

A Western Energy Co. project demonstrating a new technique for upgrading low- rank Western coal will

Humagen Inc. signed a lease with Soviet/American Trade Consultants Inc. to operate a medical equipme

The web of channels that Japan relies on to move goods through its economy is virtually inaccessible

''Bill to Curb US Imports of Textiles Advances," on Page 1A of The Journal of Commerce, July 18, mis

The United States will take the European Community before an international trade dispute panel Aug.

EURO-GULF ADDS CALL IN SPAIN'S BILBAO PORTEuro-Gulf International Inc. added a port call thi

OPEC CRUDE BASKET RISES 29 CENTS IN WEEKThe average price of the seven crude oils monitored

The U.S. Department of Transportation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Northea

The U.S. dollar declined against all key currencies except the British pound and the Japanese yen in

The last year in the market for secondhand ships has been an economic roller coaster. During

The Coast Guard absolved Exxon Corp. of major blame in an oil spill in the Arthur Kill waterway last

The bankruptcy trustee for defunct Transcon Lines Inc. will bill the trucking company's former custo

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A new requirement by Exxon Corp. that deck officers on oil tankers calling at its terminals be teste

July 19, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

UK LABOR COSTS RISE 7.1 PERCENT IN PERIODU.K. manufacturing unit labor costs rose 7.1 percen

The Long Beach City Council approved the nomination of real estate developer Alex Bellehumeur to the

A House bill to require ocean freight consolidators to post financial responsibility bonds is perhap

Nerco Coal Co., the Western producer whose shipment to Spain earlier this year introduced the Europe

Kuehne & Nagel AG & Co., one of West Germany's largest freight forwarders, announced two new joint v

The Philippines plans to propose the creation of a Southeast Asian common market at a regional meeti

A tremble of awe sweeps the chandeliered Jade Ballroom of the Hotel Furama- Kempinski as Lot Number