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North European ports are bracing for an outbreak of fierce competition next month when a giant new c

Mexico will reopen its debt-for-equity swap program to allow creditors to invest in infrastructure p

Sears Roebuck & Co. is using computerized messages that combine business information and electronic

Throughout the United States' two-century-old battle between importers and manufacturers of textiles

Fresh talks will be held April 9 in Washington to try to untangle what's being called an "unfortunat

JAPAN'S STEEL EXPORTS TO US INCREASE 14 PERCENTTotal Japanese steel exports fell 19.5 percen

A two-tier tanker market is likely to evolve as more stringent safety and pollution regulations are

Harry Bridges, former president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, who he

Robust orders for transportation equipment led overall factory orders up 1.8 percent in February, re

A European Community panel proposal to ban the import of green lumber from the United States by Aug.

CONRAIL PICKS PHILA. SITE FOR NEW CORPORATE HUBConsolidated Rail Corp. has chosen Commerce S

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and Allstate Insurance Co. filed a suit in San a Diego federal court se

Coast Savings, a thrift with $11.2 billion in assets, provides free insurance on many items purchase

Monsanto Co. and Mitsubishi Kasei Corp. said they will restructure their 38- year old joint venture,

A congressional watchdog agency has given U.S. owners of foreign-flag ships a boost in their efforts

Plans to blow the cobwebs off a 1988 textile bill have triggered another round of bitter exchanges o

Mar. 30, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

JURONG YARD REPORTS 31 PERCENT RISE IN PROFITJurong Shipyard Ltd. posted a 31 percent increa

There will be a new coal supply competitor in the international market in 1991. Drummond Co.

SOME CANADIAN FEATHERS HAVE BEEN RUFFLED by reports last week of exploratory U.S.-Mexico talks aimed

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Soft exchange rates coupled with shrinking crop forecasts continued to weigh on forward sales of Bra

EC LOAN TO HUNGARY TO BE AVAILABLE SOONBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission Friday si

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A meeting of American and Japanese industry executives this week in Las Vegas could produce a much-n

Industrialized nations are unlikely to reach agreement on eliminating shipbuilding subsidies in time

President Bush said Friday he will nominate Rear Adm. William J. Kime to be commandant of the Coast

Fears of a Fortress Europe after 1992 are much exaggerated, a senior European Community official mai

Emery Worldwide is flying into a maelstrom of tangled labor relations. And it's apparently taking a

The sidewalk cafes on the main square in the posh boutique district are crowded with young men, many

Christer Olsson, executive vice president of Wallenius Lines AB, will be appointed presi- dent of th

HICKS, MUSE ACQUIRES SEVEN LIFE INSURERSHicks, Muse & Co. completed the acquisition of seven

Only a month after Atlantic Container Line said it would close a New Jersey operation that handles l

Argentine is a major force in the soybean and soybean product export markets that will have to be re

TEXACO CHEMICAL BUYS AIR PRODUCTS' UNITTexaco Chemical Co. said it acquired the ethyleneamin

U.S. farmers hate grain embargoes as much as ardent environmentalists hate strip-mining. Gra

JAPAN TRADE SURPLUS DOWN FROM YEAR AGOJapan had a $2.963 billion trade surplus on a customs

TRADING HOURS SET FOR NYMEX GAS FUTURESThe New York Mercantile Exchange has set 9:20 a.m. to

Gold prices crashed in bullion markets across India following the scrapping of a 27-year-old gold co

Metal trade union members manned a picket line in front of the Cascade General Inc. shipyard on Swan