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The world's shipbuilding order book has climbed to the highest level since the end of 1984, accordin

Establishing a telecommunications infrastructure that will support electronic data interchange is pr

The scheduled reopening of the crucial Oakland-Bay Bridge artery in San Francisco this weekend was a

The 12,500 General Motors Corp. workers here were jolted last month when the company announced a par

GARUDA INDONESIA PLANS AIRCRAFT ORDERSGaruda Indonesia airways plans to invest $3.6 billion

Wertheim Schroder Holdings Inc. said last week it is selling a 15 percent non-voting equity stake to

Replicas of the blades-for-fingernails hands of Freddy Krueger and a plastic ''Butcher Knife and Mea

Nov. 17, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

European Community imports of crude oil and semi-refined products rose 3.8 percent to 206.3 million

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The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index was 106.0 Friday, unchangedfrom the previous

The addition of Edward M. Emmett to the Interstate Commerce Commission may signal a new era of peace

The world's apparently insatiable demand for marine containers is pushing another big Asian company

The International Monetary Fund has approved a loan equivalent to 6.84 million special drawing right

GOODS, SERVICES LEAD UK RETAIL PRICE CLIMBU.K. retail prices rose 7.3 percent in the year th

Massachusetts Port Authority officials said they have postponed financingplans for new air c

For most of the insurance industry, the first session of the 101st Congress was a continuing exercis

The average size of Carolinas claims from Hurricane Hugo are larger than earlier estimated, but insu

Marine Transport Lines Inc. might sell off half its Rowbotham Tankships Ltd. subsidiary in order to

RUCO, GOODYEAR RESOLVE DISPUTERuco Polymer Corp., a producer of polyester resins used in pow

The Caribbean economic community will not be able to make use this year of it's share of the realloc

Prices of ocean freight futures contracts fluttered around sideways last week, albeit at extremely f

TRANSAMERICAN CHIEF BUYS 55 PERCENT OF RAINBOWSTAMFORD, Conn. - T.A. DeWitt, president of Tr

The Canadian federal government wants Vancouver International Airport to spend US$68 million buildi

The Industrial Risk Insurers of Hartford, Conn., said its future is secure despite losses on the Phi

An informal meeting of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, ended here at the weeken

Philippine National Bank, a government basket case only three years ago, has exceeded last year's pr

A federal bankruptcy court judge ruled Friday that Hooker Corp., the hard- pressed Australian group

The collapse of world coffee prices means the national shipping line of Colombia will be carrying mo

Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents have identified 40 businesses and front organizations

Kloster Cruise Ltd. said Friday it signed a definitive agreement to purchase Royal Cruise Line.<

A leading critic of contemporary ship finance lashed out this week against the growing industry cons

WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY have to get it there on time, can you call Big Brown? Federa

Nikolai Shmelyov is widely considered the ideological architect of the Soviet Union's economic refor

The auction to privatize Korea Heavy Industries & Construction Co. collapsed Friday when one of the

Either: a big cola company has shown its environmental insensitivity by using a new beverage can tha

President Bush Friday signed a bill raising the minimum wage to $4.25 an hour by April 1991, the fir

HOUSING STARTS ROSE BY 12 PERCENT IN OCTOBERHigher housing starts in all regions, particular

The U.S. Department of Energy removed a major regulatory obstacle to the possible future export of n

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