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The Cargo Preference Act should be replaced by a direct subsidy program to the U.S.-flag fleet, acco

JAPAN'S JOBLESS RATE ROSE SLIGHTLY IN APRILJapan's seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment

Coal officials in China say they intend to boost exports this year, but acknowledge poor quality is

Throughout the 17-year rule of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile enjoyed strong economic relations with t

On the eve of the Washington summit, foreign policy experts and Western business interests see the p

As senior vice president-Latin America for both TNT Skypak and TNT Mailfast, James J. Hennessey is i

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It can easily be several more weeks before the flood-stricken Arkansas River enjoys normal barge tra

DOES ANYBODY WANT to be a hero? That's what the trade community needs when it comes to transforming

DOT MAY TAKE OVER AIR SECURITY DUTIESWASHINGTON - Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner

Air France has set up a new company to group its own freight operations with those of Union des Tran

The Port of San Francisco is expected to consider at a hearing today whether to invest further - and

It's an unusual claim for the manager of one of the area's most controversial plants to make. But Jo

SOVIET OFFICIAL HINTS GRAIN, TRADE PACTS TIEDMOSCOW - The Soviet Union may not sign a new gr

Tim Harris said he is more interested in helping P&O Containers Ltd. develop its businesses than in

America's industry uses more gears than foreign competitors and in 1984 it manufactured more of them

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The Uruguay Round of GATT trade talks could collapse if ministers from industrialized nations meetin

The leading airlines of Japan and West Germany entered the door-to-door package delivery service by

Ukrainian miners in the coal-rich Donetsk Basin are threatening another strike this summer if the So

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The Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 246.30 up 1.11 which compares wi

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D&H GETS PERMISSION TO CONTINUE OPERATIONThe trustee for the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co. h

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TEKTRONIX ANNOUNCES LAYOFFS, RESTRUCTURINGBEAVERTON, Ore. - Tektronix Inc. announced Tuesday

Quintette Coal Ltd. will have to reduce substantially the price it may charge its customers under a

ONTARIO PASSES NO-FAULT LEGISLATIONThe Ontario government has passed legislation that will b

The structure of the Far Eastern Freight Conference, the rate-making group of steamship lines that s

Chinese President Yang Shangkun Monday donated 1,200 bicycles to the Peronist government and asked h

U.S. business spokesmen foresee relatively little commercial impact if President Bush and Soviet Pre

The U.S. dollar declined, except against the yen, in quiet trading Tuesday. "It's a very qui

Both ship operators and port workers expect that an eight-day strike by Brazilian port workers sched

May 29, 1990 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond,

A proposal from two Transportation Department agencies will eliminate two separate sets of federal r

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COURT OVERTURNS RULING ON OVERSEAS ACCOUNTThe Supreme Court, in a case with potentially bill

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Despite occasional diplomatic rumblings from abroad, chances of Brazil joining any International Cof

Sir Frank Lampl has come full circle in his native Czechoslovakia. The construction executiv