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After years of debate over whether the Port of San Francisco should be bulk, a boutique or a boxport

A nationwide port strike could begin this week, the latest shot in Thai port unions' long-running ba

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SHOWA DENKO CHOOSES CARBIDE UNIPOL PROCESSShowa Denko KK of Tokyo has announced that it will

Lamarian Systems Inc., Greenbelt, Md., says a $542,000 computer software contract for the Port of Ba

A House Agriculture subcommittee voted to boost rice and cotton target prices beginning in 1992 usin

CHINA MIGHT REFORM COSTLY SUBSIDY PROGRAMChina may reform its costly subsidy program, which

Samuel K. Skinner, U.S. transportation secretary, will let stand a maritime agency's order that rest

South Korea will seek joint oil exploration ventures with North Korea as part of efforts to make the

A company's annual meeting ordinarily is where shareholders can get their questions answered. UAL Co

BUSH URGED TO REHIRE FIRED AIR CONTROLLERSLAS VEGAS, Nev. - The union representing the natio

U.S. business leaders will gather here June 6 to discuss what's at stake for U.S. business in the Ur

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The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index moved lower last week following a declines in the pri

As the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe and the Soviet borderlands begin to revamp their econo

Frankfurt is looking for a larger global role, and West German bankers hope it will overtake London

Although Brazilian imports have been substantially liberalized under a broad economic reorganization

Mexican cement producers believe the U.S. cement industry is using U.S. trade regulations to bully i

Although the recently released interim report on Japan-U.S. trade talks was widely embraced as a bre

TORCHMARK IS WARNED OVER PROXY CONTESTIn an April 19 letter to Torchmark Corp.'s lawyers, th

A leading U.S. provider of interconnection devices for computers is further expanding its base in As

Some 50 U.S. companies were represented when the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council met in Hong Kong on Apri

ROADWAY, ST. JOHNSBURY WIN NASSTRAC AWARDSNAPLES, Fla. - Roadway Express Inc. of Akron, Ohio

Ridership along Amtrak's 11-month-old Atlantic City line is up, an Amtrak official told a congressio

William H. Mason remembered his early days as a salesman for ConsolidatedFreightways Inc.

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Young Japanese already awash in cash and much of what it can buy are flocking to a bevy of new reli

The world oil glut is putting the squeeze on Iran, dependent on oil exports for 90 percent of the ha

Step into the giant frozen-foods warehouse, where the temperature is held at 20 degrees below zero,

Mounting tensions in Lithuania may spark a dollar rally, currency analysts say. So far, the

The Port of Portland outlined a proposed budget of $170.6 million for its next fiscal year ending Ju

South Africa's top mines spokesman said last week gold will regain favor among investors with the n

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The latest in a nerve-wracking series of aftershocks to a Feb. 28 earthquake rattled parts of Southe

Farmers trying to reduce use of chemicals would get millions of dollars in help from the federal gov

UK OFFERS LICENSES FOR NORTH SEA AREASThe U.K. Department of Energy launched an offering of

Boeing Co. is in the process of buying a 25-acre site just north of Seattle- Tacoma International Ai

New Bedford's fishing fleet pulled in the most money of any port's fleet in the nation, the National

The Soviet Union's economic performance was "abysmal" last year, the worst since Mikhail Gorbachev t

Scientists say the earthquakes that shook the San Francisco Bay area Wednesday morning are aftershoc