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President Bush appeared Monday to rule out any immediate lifting of U.S. economic sanctions against

The Soviet Far Eastern Port of Nahodka reports that 1989 was a record-setting year for cargo handlin

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

GE Capital Fleet Services has made a deal with American Express that allows fleet drivers to use Ame

The Interstate Commerce Commission will launch its investigation of trucking industry rate practices

Higher fuel prices and sharply discounted freight rates slashed fourth quarter-profits for some of t

A chemical once used to vulcanize rubber could help relieve the discomfort of cancer chemotherapy an

Peruvian President Alan Garcia has called on the United States to buy more coffee and cocoa as subst

SALVADORAN COFFEE BOYCOTTS CONTINUELongshoremen who refused to unload two ships carrying cof

Feb. 9, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The U.S. Export-Import Bank granted a $9.75 million loan to China National Offshore Oil Co.

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it awarded two weekly spot coal contracts Feb. 5 covering delive

Feb. 9, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

The Soviet Union is preparing a series of new laws that should help spur more Soviet joint ventures

TORONTO PORT REPORTS INCREASE IN CARGOThe Port of Toronto expects to top 2 million tons of c

William D. Hathaway, a 65-year-old former U.S. senator from Maine, was approved by the Senate to ser

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Texas Instruments Inc., the Dallas-based high-tech company, has chosen Hong Kong for its first overs

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington, D.C.) - George H. Babikian, president of Arco Products Co., A

THE LAST RAIL CARLOAD of grain is in no danger of being moved. The decision by major grain-h

Japan has ended its holdout status in electronic business messages by agreeing to participate in the

China is deferring payment on numerous loans and trade finance obligations, even those guaranteed by

Corporate America last year dropped a record number of pension plans that pay workers set monthly be

Georgia officials are considering legislation that would require insurance companies to notify an in

German reunification has come to the shipping industry with an announcement that Senator Linie GmbH

CANADA SEEN PLANTING LESS CANOLA IN 1990WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Canadian canola plantings this

South Korea's crude oil imports in 1989 totaled 296.4 million barrels, worth $4.94 billion, an incre

The central bank has decided to accept Brazilian international debt paper purchased at discounts on

REGIONAL BLOCS The European Revolution. Feb. 15. New York. Conference discusses the changes

An influential South Korean businessman, leading a buying mission in the United States, said U.S. co

A U.S. subsidiary of British Petroleum Co. that owns the 300,000 gallons of oil spilled from a tanke

FRENCH ACQUISITIONS ABROAD NEARLY DOUBLEFrench businesses increased their foreign investment

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COMPANIES LTD. (Oakland, Calif.) - Joseph McKeon was named to the newly created p

When Francis Le Baron opened a survival food business in his garage in 1970, customers clamored for

Wheat farmers would be in serious trouble if the Bush administration's proposals for flexibility in

The Port of Baltimore's longshore checkers, after a recent two-day slowdown at a port terminal, are

A dramatic, new hard-currency incentive plan to increase Soviet producer sales of wheat, pulses and

State-owned National Shipping Corp. of the Philippines will go back on the auction block Feb. 27 wit

Judge Karl Johnstone, presiding over the criminal trial of Capt. Joseph Hazelwood, will consider the

OHIO FIRM IN VENTURE TO BID ON JAPAN PROJECTCLEVELAND, Ohio - An Ohio company has formed a j