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"It's like having a bomb on board," mused Lennart Rudblom, general manager at Gadelius Sunrod AB, as

Africa's top entrepreneurs launched a campaign this week to polish their continent's business image,

Ports in Alaska are drawing plans to move the first American cargo to Europe through a polar ice ch

The chairman of Cray Research Inc., the leading U.S. supercomputer maker, said Tuesday an agreement

JAPAN TO BUILD MISSILES UNDER US LICENSEJapan and the United States have implemented an agre

Beef imports into Japan will be deregulated in April 1991, and major producers such as the United St

The London insurance market fears that its international image might be tarnished by this week's U.K

After a shared victory in Hungary's first free multiparty elections in 45 years, the two main opposi

Seventeen American states and ports with offices here have banded together into a joint association

Ship classification societies have expressed equal concern with the rest of the maritime community a

NORTH AMERICA Agro Expo. March 29-April 1. Guadalajara, Mexico. Agriculture. Contact Patrici

Like other suppliers to the shipping industry, a growing number of classification societies compete

The European Commission has warned Greece that its creditworthiness and status in the community will

A narrow ribbon of blacktop road runs west along the Gulf of Mexico into Apalachicola, a once-busy c

TNT BESTWAY TRANSPORTATION INC. (Phoenix) - John Matson was named to the new position of vice presid

The Missouri River is expected to dictate the level of barge traffic on the Mississippi River from S

RoadRailers have begun rolling on Australian roads and railroad tracks. Although used extens

The Port of San Francisco has signed five-year marine terminal agreements with two additional tenant

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, which will end its joint operating agreement with Nippon Yusen Kaisha in the Pa

The scope of the Interstate Commerce Commission's powers over leveraged buy- outs of railroads is em

Two containership lines this week are carrying seed corn bound for the Soviet Union as part of a mas

Inside the Davol Co. plant, workers sterilize medical equipment with a unique chemical that saves th

W. EUROPEAN DEMAND FOR SOYBEANS INCREASESROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Stronger demand for soybea

Animal studies suggest substances in soybeans may protect against the development of breast cancer,

European Community agreement on a farm price package is given an even change of passing, an EC agri

Par Pharmaceutical Inc. said it suspended distribution of most of its Quad Pharmaceutical unit's dr

Uncle Sam is getting into the specialty chemical business, as U.S. industry continues to back away f

Japanese government inspectors have found residue of the synthetic anti- bacterial "sulfa-methazine"

The Senate Banking Committee will begin hearings Thursday on whether stock index futures jurisdictio

Rex Millhollon says it is a fact of life for sugarcane growers that every few years a cold spell com

Copper prices were sharply lower Tuesday on long liquidation ahead of today's expiring March 1990 fu

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GRAINS COUNCIL PUTS LITHUANIA TRIP ON HOLDA U.S. Feed Grains Council market development trip

Despite U.S. officials' claims that foreign firms are restricted from buying Japanese companies, mer

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has postponed until April 5 a meeting to consider a request

Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday it has filed a criminal complaint in Taiwan alleging that five ind

Grain is the great question mark, as Great Lakes carriers struggle to reboundfrom last year'

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