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Britain's cargo shipping industry is too fragmented, and the smaller lines probably need to join for

In what may be the first business deal of its kind, a U.S. high-tech glass manufacturer has joined w

The European Commission is supporting urgent steps to help alleviate environmental problems the Euro

The National Mediation Board's new rules governing competing representation claims by railroad union

Small importers of jute goods from India are seeing their profit margins erode, as larger firms invo

The largest of Taiwan's three free trade zones is suffering a decline because of a tighter labor mar

The two major ocean carrier groups serving the trans-Pacific market, led by the promise of future t

Members of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, or Cocom, are wondering whet

Hvide Shipping Inc. has entered the offshore oil service supply business with the acquisition of eig

Dec. 5, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

1610 (Dec. 5, 1989) Previous day - 1629 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Most management experts would agree that Alex Mandl, chairman of Sea-Land Service Inc., is correct

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A Liberian tanker that grounded Monday morning must unload some of its nearly 500,000 barrels of cru

The British Coal Corp. agreed to three-year supply contracts with the U.K.'s two soon-to-be-private

The major U.S.-based automobile makers reported U.S. car sales off 18 percent for Nov. 21 to 30, as

The United States will cut the ceiling on Japan's share of the U.S. steel import market through Marc

Some of the businesses using the Port of Richmond, Va., want to form an advisory board to boost cus

The third mate who was at the controls of the Exxon Valdez supertanker when it ran aground off Alask

The first berth of a new terminal at Hong Kong's main containerport has come into operation more tha

The Export-Import Bank is waiting for a White House finding that could lead to its financing U.S. ex

Several insurance companies are expected to raise objections Friday at a state Insurance Department

TRUCKING GROUP BACKS TEEN DRIVING PROGRAMThe American Trucking Associations has joined Progr

The news from the Port of Baltimore is not entirely bad these days. Yes, a strike by longsho

Amid muttering by stockholders, Fruehauf Corp. ended a tortuous odyssey Nov. 29, a journey that carr

International Business Machines Corp. announced Tuesday it would cut 10,000 U.S. jobs without layoff

RULING OPENS UNIONS TO SUITS BY WORKERSThe Supreme Court Tuesday made it easier for workers

THE BIG QUESTION FOR 1990 seems to be whether the weak manufacturing sector of the economy will drag

While the Bush administration has vowed to push for reform of the nation's product liability laws, a

USAir is turning its schedules upside down in hopes of reducing its chronic flight delays. T

EC MINISTERS APPROVE AIR FARE PROPOSALBRUSSELS, Belgium - The 12 European Community transpor

Hyundai Corp. will take part in oil exploration in U.S. offshore and onshore basins with Phillips Pe

HONECKER UNDER ARREST IN EAST GERMANYFormer leader Erich Honecker and other top officials we

The makers of Combat and Raid have locked antennae over the lucrative cockroach-killing market, trad

A shipment of European steel was delayed at the port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a few months ago when

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COMBUSTION ENGINEERING GETS NOD ON EXPANSIONCombustion Engineering Inc. said it was awarded

Amid fierce competition for foreign customers, Japanese commodities futures clearinghouses are offer

Economists sometimes call it the "cows on the common" problem. When each town in New England

The United States should increase its concessionary export financing to boost U.S. competitiveness i