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UNIVERSAL TO OPERATE NY LUMBER TERMINALUniversal Maritime Service Corp. has announced it is

Some 49 percent of the respondents to a new nationwide survey rejected the idea of reducing minimum

Vanuatu and Liberia were the main beneficiaries of the short-lived flight of ships from the Panamani

ICO COFFEE EXPORTS HIT 6-YEAR HIGH FOR MONTHCoffee exports by the 50 producer members of the

In another sign of the consolidation sweeping the pharmaceutical industry, Rorer Group Inc. said it

Precious metals prices should stay firm this year, particularly in the first half, analysts said.

Santa Fe Drilling Offshore Co., Alhambra, Calif., is seeking Maritime Administration permission to t

HOECHST TO CONSOLIDATE, RELOCATE SPECIALTY UNITHoechst Celanese Corp. said it has decided to

Maritime Administrator Warren Leback said Tuesday that his agency did not block deliveries of heatin

The National Association of Wheat Growers convention delegates here said that unless rains arrive in

In a bid to thwart Dallas investor Harold Simmons, Georgia Gulf Corp. announced a recapitalization p

An environmental group published a list of what it said were the nation's largest dumpers of chemica

Contracts for the active March and May frozen concentrate orange juice futures deliveries remained s

A sharp drop in food aid cargoes and the shutdown of the Mississippi River late last year led to a 7

Brazil expects to export about 450,000 metric tons of frozen concentrated orange juice to the United

EAST EUROPE BANK MAY DEBUT THIS SPRINGPARIS - Offiecials from 34 countries set the framework

The intra-Asian market will soon be the world's busiest trade lane, Singapore will replace Hong Kong

After a 20-year battle over dredging at the Port of Oakland, the port is opting for shmooze rather t

The Monongahela River above Maxwell Lock and Dam here should reopen to commercial traffic this after

There should have been nothing unusual about a recent business deal between an importerin Africa and

* Gordon Platt - Credit Outlook 3A * Import Quota Watch 4A* Richard Lawrence - Trade Scene 8

Despite poor prospects for agreement, U.S. and Japanese negotiators will attempt to resolve trade co

US TRADE GAP SEEN NARROWINGEconomists expect today's U.S. merchandise trade report for Novem

A prosecutor said Tuesday that a major international bank agreed to a last- minute plea agreement to

A local group with American backing is joining with a Swedish telecommunication s firm to give the C

The Commerce Department is considering ways to make U.S. anti-dumping procedures faster and cheaper.

Brazilian President-elect Fernando Collor de Mello is shelving a plan to decentralize this country's

A headline on an article about the Italian grain firm Ferruzzi Finanziaria SpA that appeared in the

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

In a surprise move that continued the dramatic shake-up at one of the largesttrans-Atlantic

E. GERMANY LIFTS BAN ON FOREIGN INVESTMENTEast Germany opened the floodgates to Western capi

Despite a drop in plastics exports to China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown last June, U.S. pla

The formal start-up of daily trading later this year on the Hungarian Stock Exchange could help attr

SHIPOWNERS PROTEST ERITREAN REBEL ATTACKSCOPENHAGEN, Denmark - A group representing shipowne

Sea Containers Ltd. disclosed Friday it had completed 80 percent of the recapitalization program it

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

A shipment of 140 pounds of heroin, said to be the largest single seizure of the drug ever in Southe

About 2,000 union dockworkers will vote Friday on a labor contract extension at the Port of Baltimor

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