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More than 2,000 people died in 70 plane crashes across China in 1989, making it this country's worst

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

A presidential commission investigating the Lockerbie bombing is expected to be highly critical of F

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JAPANESE GROUP BUYS STAKE IN VOYAGER TRAVELJapanese retailer and hotel group Seibu Saison sa

In the story "ConAgra Buys Fleet," on Page 2B of the May 1 Journal of Commerce, it was asserted that

1305 (May 14, 1990) Previous day - 1313 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

The stabilizing influence of shipping conferences that set tariffs for member lines is declining, th

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Global Ocean Carriers Ltd. said Monday it is concentrating technical management of its seven bulk ve

American companies that do everything from building roads to making telephones may be able to profit

Daewoo Corp., the trading arm of one of South Korea's largest conglomerates, saw its U.S.-bound ship

Sen. Jesse Helms said he'll see to it that Congress rejects any worldwide agreement to cut world tra

Oscar Camejo saw United Parcel Service salesmen every month. Then he decided to try a new package ca

Freight shippers attacked a trucking industry plan to set minimum transportation rates for moving go

INVENTION STACKS BAGS, BOXES FOR SHIPPINGTwo Canadian inventors claim to have developed a sy

A member of Singapore's cabinet last week issued a veiled warning that pending U.S. oil spill legisl

Shipowners face escalating repair and maintenance costs over the next five years as limited yard cap

A waterfront employers group last week honored four dockworkers and five maritime companies for acco

Dissidents in the largest seafaring labor organization in the country suffered a reverse late last w

Fleet Lines, an ocean freight consolidator, said it started a direct, all- water service to Istanbul

West German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd AG is shifting its two newest ships out of the Far East-Europ

PPI Del Monte Tropical Fruit Co. announced Monday it would sell nine new refrigerated containerships

Private estimates for Brazil's 1990-91 (May-April) coffee crop released last week showed a downward

Businesses that illegally fix prices to increase market share are not necessarily liable for antitru

LEBOWA PLATINUM FIRES 1,500 STRIKING WORKERSJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Lebowa Platium Mine

Lithuania has been talking with oil suppliers in Saudi Arabia, Denmark and North America to line up

Consumers will pay about 6.3 cents more for a gallon of gasoline if budget negotiations now going on

Soviet participation in a four-nation venture to develop oil production on the North Yemen-South Yem

Platinum supplies surged to a record high on the world market last yearbecause of increased

Cocoa soared to new contract highs on renewed unrest in the Ivory Coast. Prices for the acti

COLOMBIAN MINERS END STRIKE AT EL CERREJONBOGOTA, Colombia - Workers at Colombia's largest c

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* Commodity Research Bureau 7A * Product Liability Issues Head for Senate Conference 9A* Ned

Exchange rates in the long term will be unstable until financial market participants see that world

The Supreme Court refused to abolish docking fees charged by Plaquemines Parish, La., to maintain it

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Monday the government would allow the Goddess of Democracy

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OECD GROUP MEETS ON YARD SUBSIDY ISSUEIndustrialized countries are meeting here for three da

President Bush is considering using bureaucratic procedures to delay an historic trade treaty with t