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

There will be smooth sailing for export coal barges on the Mississippi River system this year, U.S.

1345 (May 3, 1990) Previous day - 1352 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in Lo

A U.S. Coast Guard interim rule will require U.S. vessel operators to draft waste management plans a

Ship lovers Wednesday feared the SS Milwaukee Clipper would ride its last wave into a junk heap, sol

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Longshore pickets are not likely to disrupt loading of cable at STC Submarine Systems Inc. in Portla

General Motors Corp. Thursday reported its first-quarter profit fell 54 percent and Ford Motor Co.'s

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

MOROCCO SET TO CREATE OFFSHORE BANK SYSTEMRABAT, Morocco - Morocco plans to create an offsho

The rise of the long-term health care issue on the American agenda is prompting proposals that claim

The U.S. dollar declined against key currencies except the Japanese yen Thursday in continued dull t

The prospect that Mexico will soon return its commercial banks to private control has even the harsh

A completed wharf extension project at Maersk Line's terminal facility in Oakland will give the Dani

Marine Transport Lines Inc. has agreed to sell 50 percent of a tanker operating subsidiary to P&O Bu

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

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. (New York) - AIG has realigned management responsibilities in its

FURNITURE FORECAST: E. EUROPE INFLUENCEHIGH POINT, N.C. - Country, with lots of comfort buil

Air Express International, the large air freight forwarder, earned $1.6 million, or 32 cents a share

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Companies from the United States and Canada must become an integral part of the future European trad

A major International Monetary Fund package, featuring a roughly $60 billion boost in the agency's r

Forest Service officials Wednesday refused to release details to a House panel on how efforts to pro

THE SCRAP STEEL MARKET has reheated to the point where prices have jumped nearly 10 percent in April

It now takes $231 million and 12 years to develop the average prescriptiondrug - a figure th

BFGoodrich sees more people brushing their teeth, moisturizing their skin and styling their hair.

As the Philippines' energy crisis worsened, President Corazon Aquino issued a decree Thursday reinst

Liquid propane Thursday began flowing through a 165-mile pipeline that ruptured in March, causing an

Picture this: You've just checked into your Moscow hotel room, kicked off your shoes and turned on t

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

The amount of seaborne cargo discharged in Hong Kong in the fourth quarter of 1989 decreased slightl

ANTALL ASKED TO HEAD HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENTBUDAPEST, Hungary - Arpad Goncz, Hungary's interim

SOUTH KOREAN WORKERS VOTE TO END STRIKEULSAN, South Korea - South Korea's labor unrest showe

CAPITALISTS NEED NOT APPLY. The worst thing that could happen to Hong Kong in the near term would be

Debate over the shape of European Community cross-border mail and package delivery services after 19

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

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

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

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

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