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CIGNA PLANS TO OPEN EAST GERMAN OFFICEBrus- sels-based Cigna Insurance Co. of Europe SA-NV i

At Smith & Nephew Perry, an executive said the surgical glove manufacturer will be watching latex pr

U.S. banking group PaineWebber Monday began trading in London Metal Exchange base metals with a team

What do air freight forwarders and air cargo managers think of a proposal to sell New York's La Guar

When Amway Corp. decided to enter the Mexican market, the company's traffic department figured it'd

The Port of Hamburg is poised to cash in its "peace dividend" as the collapse of communism in Easter

A new type of ferryboat is to depart today for an attempt to set a newtrans-Atlantic speed

Shippers are hoping a new agreement on bunker fuel surcharges for westbound North Atlantic traffic w

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

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

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. will launch a pilot port automation project in August.

NFC PLC EARNINGS SHOW 16 PERCENT INCREASEBEDFORD, England - NFC PLC reported first-quarter e

No one here expects the Soviet transition to a market economy to be smooth sailing, but Moscow is re

Uruguay's export-promotion activities will get a boost from the United Nations Development Program,

New York Mercantile Exchange June 8, 1990CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

As of June 11, 1990 Prices in the spot chemicals table in clude spot quotations or list pric

An accounting scheme that artificially boosts an insurance company's capital by sidestepping agent c

GERMAN BUSINESSMAN TRIED IN LIBYAN AFFAIRMANNHEIM, West Germany - The former manager of a We

THE LAST TWO WEEKS HAVE BEEN EVENTFUL for the French insurance industry. Union des Assurances de Par

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Czechoslovakia is negotiating the purchase of natural gas from Norway, Iran and Algeria, according t

Consumers Power Co. signed its first contract to purchase electricity produced from a sanitary landf

After nearly five years as the bad boy of world financial circles, Peru can now clear the way toward

The Coast Guard Monday was probing the cause of Sunday's cruise ship grounding that punctured fuel t

Salvage crews Friday sank a petrochemical ship that had been burning for six weeks off the southern

The Supreme Court Monday declined to review the settlement between the Teamsters and the federal gov

When the extremely successful Intermodal Container Transfer Facility opened in late 1986, 4.4 miles

Korean Air, one of the largest trans-Pacific cargo carriers, on Monday signed a $4.8 billion order f

HUFFY CORP. EXPECTS $700,000 DUTY REFUNDDAYTON, Ohio - Huffy Corp. said Monday that it has s

COMPARED TO THE LIBERATION of Eastern Europe, the ethnic violence of Eastern Canada's constitutional

Aluminum ingots- $1,900-$1,990 per ton lots & in warehouse min. 99.

VOSGANIAN HONORED FOR TRANSPORT WORKNEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Harry Vosganian, director of transp

Exports of Canadian canola oil to the United States will decline this yearbecause of falling

Cocoa prices tumbled amid commodity fund and commission-house technical selling. The active

MANUFACTURERS' PROFITS FELL IN FIRST QUARTERAfter-tax profits of U.S. manufacturers fell to

A decline in Japanese rice consumption in the year ending March 31 marked the fourth consecutive ann

June 11, 1990 Copper Total, 14,137. Gold Total, .1,695,332.Silver Total, .254,160,933.

COLOWYO SIGNS PACT WITH COORS ENERGYColowyo Coal Co., Meeker, Colo., signed a five-year cont

CHINA, UK'S SHELL PLAN PETROCHEMICAL VENTUREChina National Offshore Oil Corp. and the United