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British Petroleum PLC signed a contract Monday for exploration in China's northern Bohai Bay, China

Federal Express wants the world to know that it wasn't beaten out by Airborne Express for the world'

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD (Detroit) - Jack Vast-Binder was promoted to director of personnel. He'

ITEL DISTRIBUTION ADDS TO WAREHOUSE NETWORKItel Distribution Systems has added Kansas City,

When corporate benefit managers talk about containing health-care costs, they measure success in mod

International Business Machines Corp. said Monday its earnings rose to $1.04 billion in the first qu

The first of several dredges that will deepen the Port of Grays Harbor has begun scooping mud from t

The Iran-Iraq war, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and an international credit squeeze are unlikely ingre

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills Monday endorsed the creation of a new global trading organizat

SUMMA TO DISTRIBUTE PRODUCTS FOR PARKERCOSTA MESA, Calif. - Parker Automotive Corp., of Cost

Apr. 16, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Apr. 12, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A proposal to create a nationwide computer system for tracking hazardous materials shipments is crea

Peter Rose recalls a night on an island in Hong Kong when he and a few other air freight forwarders

AIR MIDWEST INC. flew 14.7 million revenue passenger-miles in March, 4.6 percent lower than the 15.4

GOVERNMENT SUES EXXON OVER FINESNEWARK, N.J. - The federal government is suing Exxon Corp. f

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was 0.4 points higher to 104.0 for the week and on Fr

Freightliner Corp. of Portland, Ore., outsold all other nameplates in March and threatened to pass N

WASHINGTON - For the week ended April 7, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

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For a company that claims to run the tightest ship in the shipping business, the place looks pretty

PRATT ENGINES GET FAA CERTIFICATIONEAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Pratt & Whitney said the Federal A

Computers someday may enable a ship captain to evaluate a collision threat or other emergency and ch

REICHHOLD CHEMICALS INC. (White Plains, N.Y.) - Randall A. Weghorst was named president of the react

The Dominican Republic plans to expand its San Isidro free trade zone with a $6 million loan from th

The current U.S. economic expansion, now in its eighth year, will continue through the second quarte

ALLPORTS GROUP (Portland, Ore.) - David Buoy was named general manager of forwarding operations at t

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The Maryland Port Administration is seeking bids from private stevedores by April 27 on a contract t

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business With Europe. April 21. Berkeley, Calif. Contact Shirley Fogari

Major ship lines that carry goods across the Pacific from the United States to the Indian subcontine

The Canadian government was caught by surprise by a ruling last week by a Quebec Superior Court that

A legal maneuver allowed the first major change in Pennsylvania's auto insurance law to take place a

Association of Water Transportation Accounting Officers. April 18. New York. Luncheon meeting. Guest

1456 (Apr. 12, 1990) Previous day - 1459 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

A brief headlined "National Starch to Buy Adhesives Business," which appeared on Page 7A in the Jour

Japan's major sugar refineries have taken an unprecedented, if rather reluctant, step here to boycot

Japan's seasonally unadjusted trade surplus widened 7.2 percent last monthfrom March 1989 t