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

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

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

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

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

Foreign exchange deposits are increasing and trading companies are delaying export settlements on ex

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

The Bush administration considered but rejected the idea of proposing new taxes on various materials

THE OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET last week signaled that charter rates should be firming again in th

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it bought only 4,500 tons of coal under one contract in its last

Pilots at United Parcel Service Inc. voted themselves out of one union and into a new one last week,

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

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

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

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UNCHANGED LAST MONTHThe unemployment rate was unchanged in December from t

VIETNAM SAYS WEST DELAYS NEEDED AIDHANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam, facing a major cutback in loans

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When passengers check in for Northwest Airlines flights here in the South Wing of the New Tokyo Inte

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will move into its own private-use container terminal at the Port of Oakland on

Chicago Board of Trade officials berated the proposed 12-month ban on dual trading that emerged from

An extended outage at Exxon Chemical Co.'s Baton Rouge complex has been overshadowed byproduction sh

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

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

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

The Overseas Private Investment Corp. will sign today its first insurance contract ever for a U.S. b

Fri., Jan. 5, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

MY NEW YEAR'S CELEBRATION T-shirt reads: "I survived the '80s." This was no small feat when

Norfolk Southern Corp. is holding the line on base rates for export coal in 1990 but is eliminating

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever new impetus is needed to get oil pollution and tanker safety legislation enacted in Congres

A Canadian food conglomerate is changing the way it moves goods to Asian and Caribbean markets. It's

The dollar is likely to remain very weak following the surprise dollar-selling by the West German ce