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Preliminary national budget statistics for fiscal 1989 suggest that Japan's already massive public d

Ten companies are seeking licenses from the Federal Maritime Commission to operate as ocean freight

Norton Lilly International Inc., a steamship agent, is based in Secaucus, N.J. The company's headqua

EXECUTIVE EGOS may keep railroads from effectively using the paperless trading technology ofthe futu

JAPANESE CAN ORDER NY GOODS IN THE MAILJapanese who haven't the energy to go to New York can

CARGILL EYES SETUP OF JAPAN OJ FACILITYCargill North Asia Ltd., a Japanese unit of Minneapol

The Bush administration is backing a proposal for the Securities and ExchangeCommission, whi

Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co. Tuesday reported lower first-quarter earnings, as the companies fe

MC Shipping Inc. declared a dividend of 45 cents a share for the quarter ended March 31. "Th

The U.S. Energy Department is creating a new export office to help expand international sales of oil

For Link America, one of the air cargo industry's largest road feeder operations, its first decade h

West German chemical concern Bayer Tuesday reported post-tax profit of 2.12 billion Deutsche marks (

The New York Commodities Exchange Inc. announced that it will raise the spot April margin requireme

Japan's vice-minister of finance for international affairs, Makoto Utsumi, spoke favorably Tuesday a

The Port of Portland said it is planning to build a $1.7 million, 100,000- square-foot general cargo

It is tough to find anyone who is pleased with the government's study and assessment of natural reso

The multibillion-dollar effort to overhaul the air traffic control network has become mired in delay

Ten Consolidated Rail Corp. boxcars of unwanted New York garbage sitting in aCSX Transportat

Apr. 24, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

There's a run on legal pads, ball-point pens and blank audio tape today. That's because 64 H

A state Insurance Department official on Tuesday defended the agency against allegations of possible

Zimbabwe has finally consented to sign an agreement with a U.S. government agency that offers politi

Venezuelan ship line Naviera Pacifico CA appointed Belgian Line Inc., New York,as general agent for

Brazil is expected to take a tough line in renegotiating payments on its $115 billion foreign debt,

4 US BROKERS ALLOWED IN JAPAN BANK BUSINESSJapan's Finance Ministry plans to allow four U.S.

The Federal Maritime Commission is investigating the practices of Memphis Forwarding Co., a freight

The Tehran Times Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of trying to put politicalpressure on other me

EASTERN TRUSTEE URGES SALE OF LATIN ROUTESMIAMI - The trustee for Eastern Air Lines has urge

Global Ocean Carriers Ltd., a bulk shipping company launched in 1988, had 1989 net income of $4.5 mi

Container leasing companies, whose business expanded by as much as 15 percent in 1988 and 1989, expe

Representatives of Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong lashed out at the Commerce Department's decisio

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * William Armbruster - Trade Talk 4A* EC 1992 Regul

CONAGRA INC. (Omaha, Neb.) - James R. Tindall was named president and chief operating officer of Con

Despite the notoriously overcrowded Australian insurance market, Swiss-based Zurich Insurance Co. ex

Amending the antitrust exemption which the McCarran-Ferguson Act provides insurance companies would

US-MANDATED COVER EXPECTED, SURVEY FINDSWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Two-thirds of the respondents

Insurance broker, Frank B. Hall & Co. Inc. reported net income of $3.0 million, for the first quarte

An Ecuadorean freighter has started its trip home with seven stowaways who nearly died trying to mak

Implementation of copyright protection in China, something the United States is pressing for, will b