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THE CONTAINER REVOLUTION keeps changing the face of waterfronts, and the Port of Halifaxhas had its

Wed., Dec. 27, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

A Washington state Indian tribe, scheduled to receive $40 million and 127 acres of waterfront proper

A severe shortage of liquidity is once again hampering the purchase and export of Ivorian cocoa desp

GROUP AIMS TO DEVELOP PVC RECYCLING PROCESSA group of polyvinyl chloride producers said it w

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Taiwan may be moving more aggressively to break out of its official isolation by joining multilatera

DHL FLIES CHARTER RUN FOR THE POSTAL SERVICEDHL Worldwide Express has flown its first-ever e

Reports of refinery problems on the Gulf Coast, largely related to extremely frigid weather there, c

Senior U.S. government commercial officers based in Asia will descend on Southern California early i

DAIRYLAND TO PAY $30,000 FOR VIOLATIONSInsurance Commissioner Roxani Gillespie announced tha

The U.S. Navy has awarded Avondale Industries Inc. a $167.4 million contract to build four vessels.<

Dec. 27, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

There's oil in them thar birds, and two entrepreneurs are cashing in on the animal that's so despis

California's legislature goes back into session next week with renewedpressure to solve the

Could Britain's west coast ports start taking trade away from Rotterdam and Antwerp, once the Channe

The nation's leading municipal bond insurers wrote nearly $300 million in direct written financial g

Police have frozen between $3.4 million and $4.3 million held in French bank accounts by ousted Pana

Frigid New Englanders might clash with American shipping interests over a request by three energy co

The New York Mercantile Exchange said it raised margins on crude, heating oil and unleaded gasoline

With all the clamor about foreign investors buying up America, a gradual and steady rise in U.S. inv

The information below corrects a table that appeared in The Journal of Commerce of Dec. 27, on Page

Employers beware: cost shifting is expected to occur as new Medicare physician payment rules take ef

Exxon Corp.'s combined property and liability losses for the recent explosion at the company's large

The Arco Anchorage steamed out of the Alaskan port of Valdez, its belly heavy with three times as mu

Insurers operating in Panama say they are under no obligation to pay for property damage resulting f

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. (Milwaukee) - Joseph F. Meier of Oviedo, Fla., has been appo

U.S. importers and foreign suppliers have begun their prowl for opportunities as the great Christmas

ARGENTINE AUSTRAL FALLS ON INFLATION FEARSBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina's currency, th

STRIKE MEDIATOR HOPES TO SETTLE BY NEW YEARNegotiations in the nearly nine-month-long coal m

These loans were announced recently by lending agencies: CHILE - $210 million from the Inter

Alexander Talmadge, a high official of the International Longshoremen's Association, died on Tuesday

Ten years ago, like cowpokes bursting into a saloon, America's truckers roared through doors thrown

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

Officials in China say 1990 will be a bumper year for its space industry, with "an unprecedented num

Commodity Exchange Inc. silver futures plummeted Wednesday amid technical selling spurred by signs o

They came, they saw, they constructed roller coasters and water slides. Nearly seven years a

Vice Premier Yao Yilin, an economic expert who helped steer China back toward more central planning,

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Sales of existing single-family homes rose to the highest level of the year in November, the Nationa