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The Port of Stockton said it ended the 1980s with record cargo volume, based on revenue tons.

Maersk Line this week added the Port of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to its biweekly servic

Citing a clerical error, a Federal Maritime Commission law judge has granted an Orient Overseas Cont

MEMORIES. A final tribute to Harry Bridges, founder and longtime leader of the International Longsho

The Federal Maritime Commission is keeping a tight lid on how it dealt with an ocean carrier's petit

The European Commission Wednesday cited discriminatory public procurement policies and rules on fina

The $70 million harbor-deepening and widening project at Charleston, S.C., has come to a virtual hal

A financial plan to salvage bankrupt Prudential Lines Inc. is sailing into heavy seas, requiring an

It's no fun being a U.S. wheat farmer these days. Wheat is fetching around $3.50 per bushel, down fr

U.S. farmers are prepared to accept the elimination of existing sugar import quotas, which would not

YEUTTER STRESSES NEED FOR FARM TRADE REFORMBarriers to global trade have dropped for many pr

Borden Chemicals and Plastics LP said high natural gas costs reduced profitmargins for metha

National timber harvests will increase 55 percent over the next half century but industry employment

A non-event became an important event for New York and London cocoa markets Tuesday. ''It's

Washington will place Taiwan on a list of "unfair" trading partners next week, leading to possible U

In the fiercely competitive world of international grain trading, grain-rich countries need an edge

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Smuggling operations are helping Pakistan, India, Argentina, Brazil and Iraq to build or expand nucl

The European Commission last week said it would expand global warming research, and praised Presiden

JAPAN TO EASE RULES ON LARGE RETAIL STORESJapan's Ministry of International Trade and Indust

SOVIETS ASK JAPANESE FOR ECONOMIC TALKSEduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Union's foreign minis

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

NORTON LILLY INTERNATIONAL INC. (San Francisco) - W.C. Daniels was named marine operations manager f

California Gov. George Deukmejian has signed an executive order to coordinate and expand the state's

Getting paid is a major concern for U.S. companies wishing to do business in developing countries.

The rules may be about to change in the Cimarron National Grasslands, a108,000-acre federal

FRANCE SAYS PRICES ROSE 0.3 PERCENT IN MARCHFrench consumer prices in March rose 0.3 percent

Purism, I suppose, has its place; but in some cases its inherent rigidity is misplaced, regressive a

TUESDAY'S INFLATION NUMBERS were rotten to the core. Consumer prices surged 0.5 percent in M

Tue, April 17, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The U.S. Postal Service again wants to offer Express Mail users a volume discount. It seeks

Taiwan hopes to become a developed country by 1993 when its per capita gross national product is exp

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Brazilian monthly inflation will be equal to approximately zero, said Zelia Cardoso de Melo, Brazil'

Like the rest of America, the Senate has developed a rapidly growing addiction to telephone facsimil

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FLIGHT CREW STRIKES HIT JAPANESE AIRLINESAll Nippon Airways Co. flight crews went on a 24-ho

Hapag-Lloyd AG's Olaf von Maydell reminds me of one of those Clint Eastwood characters in the movies

Shell International Marine, a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies, has bought fou