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A global communications network for the maritime industry received formal approval last week.

Despite the modest volume traded in the Singapore International Monetary Exchange's Euroyen futures

Freight traffic on trans-Pacific routes to North America will expand by 5 percent eastbound and by 7

PRIMERICA WILL BUY BARCLAYS US UNITFinancial giant Primerica Corp. has agreed to buy the loa

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

As Japan hurtles toward the end of 1989, with "Forget the Year" drinking parties, huge semiannual bo

SOUTH KOREAN EXPORTS MAY FALL SHORT OF GOALSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's exports this y

The top two officials of the Puerto Rico Maritime Shipping Authority revealed they are considering t

Eastern Air Lines machinists were left alone on the picket lines last week after pilots and flight a

A recent brokerage report projected that operating earnings for Stolt Tankers & Terminals (Holdings

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Hungary's trade minister, Tamas Beck, arrives in the United States this week for five days of talks

The auctioneer's staccato banter returned to the Lucas Tobacco Warehouse and all across the Burley B

EASTERN TO START HIRING RAMP WORKERS AT HUBEastern Air Lines said it will begin hiring perma

Big U.S. software developers are striking out at companies that illegally copy software for their ow

L.A. Gear Inc. said federal prosecutors in Massachusetts are investigating whether the company had u

Ninety-nine of 140 Japanese firms involved in allegations of bid-rigging for work at a U.S. Navy bas

United Airlines total cargo ton-miles for October were 119.7 million, up 13.3 percent from 105.7 mil

THE FUTURES MARKET continued to drift sideways last week, as holidays in the Far East and in the Uni

Liberia has taken a further step to make it easier for shipowners to re-flag vessels to that country

International Marine Transport Inc. said it is forming a new line to a operate breakbulk service bet

Recruiters from the Electric Boat shipyard have joined the birds in heading South, except they're no

REGIONAL BLOCS Miami Conference on the Caribbean. Nov. 28-Dec. 1. Miami. New policy developm

GM SELLS 5 PERCENT OF STAKE IN ISUZU MOTORSGeneral Motors Corp. said it has sold about 5 per

The Federal Reserve has again eased credit conditions, Fed watchers confirmed Friday. A cons

American Electric Power Service Corp. announced that it has purchased 4.5 million tons of Powder Ri

Strategic Planning Associates Inc. has agreed in principle to become part of Marsh & McLennan Cos.'s

CIGNA DISCUSSES BUYING EQUITABLE VENTURECigna Corp. is conducting discussions with Equitable

The United States will allow a 13.5 percent increase in the amount of raw sugar that can be imported

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

1672 (Nov. 24, 1989) Previous day - 1670 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

PLASTICS SOCIETY GETS EXTENSION ON COMPLAINTThe Interstate Commerce Commission has given the

In a bid to upgrade rail services after 1992, the European Commission has proposed opening the EC ra

Builders Transport Inc. is creating an employee stock ownership plan to give its workers a stake in

This country's government-owned airline, Dominicana de Aviacion, plans to start direct flights to Cu

Lower plywood prices and a significant drop in textile prices helped push the Journal of Commerce In

Some analysts are turning bearish toward the dollar following the dollar's inability to rally from i

A new stock buy-back plan by B.A.T. Industries PLC is just the latest in a series of maneuvers by th

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

STRIKING BOEING WORKERS may have been out to bag more than just a new contract in their seven-week s