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Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Consumers binged in the 1980s, indulging themselves with everything from fancy gourmet foods to elec

Poland's Solidarity-led government said Friday it was preparing to cancel a decision by the previous

A New Jersey company has taken a first step in the race to develop new refrigeration equipment that

U.S. ocean liner operators will experience modest growth in import and export cargoes over the next

The Department of Transportation favors retaining both the 1984 Shipping Act's antitrust exemption f

Precious metal prices recovered most of their pre-New Year losses last week and by Friday the price

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United Parcel Service Inc. has established an electronic data link to the Canadian Customs Service.<

A French shipping company said it reached agreement to acquire 75 percent of America-Africa-Europe L

EUROPEAN CEREAL GROUP SEEN AT RECORD BY 1995BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EC cereal crop may incre

Federal appeals courts handed freight shippers two important victories in the ongoing dispute over n

A PARTICULARLY EGREGIOUS example of sophistry came from the International Association of Machinists

Towboat traffic on the Monongahela River will grind to a sudden stop Tuesday so workers can clear a

WALL STREET RESTORES MASSPORT CREDIT RATINGOfficials of Standard & Poor's Ratings Group in N

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index rose last week in response to rising prices for crude

EMERY WORLDWIDE (Palo Alto, Calif.) - Peter D. Boulais was named vice president of sales. He was vic

While momentum builds for closer Soviet-American trade, companies already exploring the icy waters o

The Securities and Exchange Commission Friday approved an application by Delta Government Options Co

A subsidiary of a California company plans to ship 770 computers, worth more than $1 million, to the

These loans by the Inter-American Development Bank were announced recently: BRAZIL - $2 mill

The Iron Curtain has come down, and now a factory here is working to launder it. Church & Dw

JAPANESE FIRM'S UNITS SHIFT TO FOREIGN CONTROLJapanese consumer products giant Kao Corp. sai

SONO-TEK CORP. MOVES INTO JAPANESE MARKETSono-Tek Corp. said it entered into an agreement wi

REGIONAL BLOCS U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe: End of an Era? Jan. 23. Portland, Ore. Contact V

Jan. 5, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

1619 (Jan. 5, 1990) Previous day - 1609 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Only six months after hammering out a difficult labor accord, waterfront employers and leaders of th

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA (Fountain Valley, Calif.) - Rodney E. "Rod" Hayden was named executive vice pr

The main containerport of the Philippines is installing new dock equipment and advancing delivery of

Japanese political considerations have led to the postponement of negotiations between Japan and the

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

Asahi Breweries Ltd., the third-largest beer producer in Japan, said it plans to build a brewery in

They own Columbia Pictures in Hollywood and Rockefeller Center in New York. Now they've gotten a chu

JAPANESE HAVE 51 PERCENT OF SEMICONDUCTOR SALESJapan's share of world semiconductor sales re

Two Pakistani shipmates who spent a torturous month crossing the Atlantic on a Maltese freighter tri

Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, who begins a 10-day tour of Europe today, is expected to promise massi

A battered Norwegian-flag propane tanker underwent final checks in open water Friday as the Coast Gu

The Bush administration's long-touted national transportation policy is being largely dismantled by

U.S. companies in Panama are girding for an uphill struggle as Panamanians call for the private sect