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A local vote Tuesday to raise taxes and expand a convention hall is the key to building a showcase t

The House of Representatives Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill granting improved tariff treatmen

JOURNAL OF COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION TABLE, Feb. 9. National Press Building, Washington, D.C. Topic is

A meeting held this week in Atlanta is making it easier for transportation companies toestablish ele

House legislation to rewrite the vessel rebuilding and foreign-owner citizenship provisions of domes

PLATINUM PRICE AVERAGE SEEN AT $535 IN 1990An expected increase in interest by Japanese inve

The prospect of lower domestic meat production has Japanese soybean dealers wary about the future of

Argentina's austral currency plunged against the U.S. dollar Wednesday while the government sought s

December's unprecedented run-up of home heating oil prices in the Northeast was aggravated by an alm

Litigation involving cargo losses in bulk oil shipments carried on tankers is common. These losses t

State insurance regulators approved an average 2.88 percent rate increase Monday for Texas motorists

ALABAMA STATE DOCKS (Mobile, Ala.) - William G. Fox, 43, was named general manager of bulk operation

A Chinese brewing company has won a U.S. federal court suit over trademark infringement by an Americ

NORTH AMERICA National Shoe Fair of America. Feb. 10-13. New York. Contact Trade Fair, (212)

Charlotte may soon have more international flights under a new policy recently unveiled by Transport

* Gordon Platt - Credit Outlook 3A * EC 1992 Regulatory Roundup 4A* A.E. Cullison - Asia Vie

Emons Holdings Inc. lost $118,709 on revenue of $3.6 million in the fiscal second quarter ended Dec.

Bids from private companies wishing to operate terminals at Thailand's new deep-sea port will be cal

The most significant challenges facing the nation's trucking industry in the 1990s will be regulatio

A year of so from now, when New York-area steamship executives hear someone mention Wilmington, Nort

A House maritime subcommittee learned Tuesday that the Coast Guard's aging fleet of seagoing buoy te

HONG KONG BULLISH ON NEW CONTRACTA new futures contract scheduled to debut in Hong Kong toda

A U.S. effort to stop the export of chemicals used to refine cocaine seems doomed to failure by a la

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is expected to propose new rules about liability limitations on the

The number of working U.S. oil and gas rigs continued to decline this week, dropping by six to 931,

Petroleum marketers meeting here this week split sharply over the way their industry handled the pub

A major international bank was ordered to forfeit more than $15 million after pleading guilty to dru

Saudi Arabia told Japanese oil companies Tuesday that it would hike crude oil prices for Arab Light

One of the most bitter trans-Atlantic trade spats, the "hormone war," has reared its ugly head once

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Risk managers and brokers who exploit market cycles for their own interest should analyze the financ

Want to cut travel expenses? Try video-conferencing.Alex Mandl, chairman of Sea-Land Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter Tuesday proposed that the 1990 farm bill es

Phillips Petroleum Co. is poised to start marketing propane in Denver for motor vehicles, the first

The U.S. dollar rose against the deutsche mark and the yen Tuesday in active trading. Tradin

1606 (Feb. 6, 1990) Previous day - 1619 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Restaurants and ports have something in common: If they are good, they get discovered. Business bui

Consolidated Rail Corp. credits a new safety program for the carrier's 22 percent reduction in job-r

With somber 1989 cargo figures and a restive group of unemployed longshore clerical workers on hand,

A spate of acquisitions and joint ventures is changing the landscape of Western Europe's defense ind