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Four Western European airlines joined forces Thursday in an alliance they said would help them compe

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PLANS FOR NEW AIRLINE MAY HIT EC SNAGBritish Airways' attempt to form an airline with Sabena

Air Canada is taking steps to become a bigger player in the North American air cargo market.

China Thursday called on the Asian Development Bank to renew loans suspended since last June's crack

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President George Bush appointed four Panamanian members to the Panama CanalCommission's nine

HAPAG-LLOYD SHIP CALLS AT NEW NY FACILITIESSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Hapag-Lloyd (America) Inc.,

The Port of Portland's huge new crane is finally standing on its own legs at Terminal 2, three days

A reporter's notebook ran aground recently, and because it was not outfitted with a double hull or d

Norasia Shipping Service SA, a Swiss-based shipping line, expects to disclose details of an internal

The government Thursday barred a broadcasting ship operated by supporters of the democracy movement

Small businesses in East Germany are reaching out to their counterparts in Western Europe and the Un

Women's underwear is causing Martyn Merritt some trouble. Mr. Merritt, president of AMG Serv

An apparent switch by Senate staffers could cost the federal government millions of dollars in duty

The logistics of moving coal from mine to utility generating station will change dramatically if the

Engineers will let billions of hungry microbes loose on tar-like waste left by an old gas works in h

Economic policy-makers from more than 150 nations are set to meet in Washington to try to thrash out

Political commentators in Japan are questioning why their government continues to make trade concess

Timothy and Ellen Judge were searching early last year for a place to expand their hardware business

The Senate Budget Committee Wednesday adopted a Democrat-proposed $1.2 trillion budget for 1991 that

The current marketing loan plan for U.S. cotton is expected to come under fire this week during the

Nearly 100 U.S. investors interested in Mexico's opening of its secondary petrochemical market are e

Alaska Gov. Steve Cowper approved a controversial plan to use large amounts of fertilizer and bacter

SPCC: PERU ORDERS MINERS BACK TO WORKOfficials at Southern Peru Copper Corp. said the Peruvi

Supply/demand shifts will play an increasingly crucial part in determining world market prices for c

A move to free sugar trade by the United States would raise world sugar prices and Australian sugar

Funds for a new soybean marketing loan program would have to come from reduced spending on other tra

A House agriculture subcommittee Tuesday moved to severely restrict the amount of high sugar content

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Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's exclus

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Wendy Gramm said that Wall Street jealousy was behind

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

TWO GERMANYS AGREE ON 1-1 EXCHANGE RATEUnder the agreement on the major points of monetary u

JAPAN REPORTS DEFICIT FOR APRIL 1-20 TRADEJapan had an $11.5 million trade deficit on a cust

The Soviet Union has asked a major Japanese trading house to make advance payments on imports to hel

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has signed leases with 13 new tenants in the first four months of 1990. Two e

Punta Arenas, a sleepy fishing village fronting the cold, windy Strait of Magellan, could be transfo

The move by Crowley Maritime Corp. to centralize pricing, marketing, sales and accounting in its Atl

The Malaysian state oil company hopes to sell liquefied natural gas to South Korea, muscling into wh