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The Indian business community has the jitters as polls indicate that pro- business Prime Minister Ra

RUBBER MART HEALTHY, GLOBAL COUNCIL SAYSKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The natural rubber market i

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America named a Los Angeles customhouse bro

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Perestroika has hit Switzerland's once-moribund watch industry: A recently launched wristwatch has a

BARGE FREIGHT RATES FALL DESPITE BACKLOGKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Barge freight rates to points nor

A top European Community official defended the EC's approach to standard- settin g, saying it prefer

Congress fudged. President Bush said he wouldn't budge. But in the home of the world's seven

BRITISH PETROLEUM TO EXPAND PLANTBritish Petroleum Co. PLC will spend a total of 560 millio

American Electric Power Service Corp. announced it's looking to buy coal under contracts covering up

The Interstate Commerce Commission has found the Norfolk Southern and the Florida East Coast rail sy

In the economy of the future, telecommunications networks will be as important as air and sea ports,

The European Community is extending its reach into Eastern Europe, and Hungary may soon become an as

Each segment of the U.S. maritime industry must be prepared to compromise its positions if it expect

The two weeks of Federal Maritime Commission hearings that wrapped up late last week showed that the

A Japanese government white paper released at the weekend urged industrialized countries to rely mor

COASTAL FLEET FUELING OPENS TAMPA TERMINALTAMPA, Fla. - Coastal Fleet Fueling, a marketing a

Like Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki is out to prove that Poland's newest ex

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

Lloyd's of London is due to announce details today of measures designed to speed up the processing o

PLM INTERNATIONAL INC. (San Francisco) - George E. Jennings was named technical marine manager for t

There may not be a John Deere dealer down the block just yet and the state has yet to defer to the g

Evidence of a weakening economy continues to hurt the dollar, but some analysts believe the U.S. cur

Overseas creditors in the Philippines' moribund nuclear project, most of them U.S. banks, are seizin

East Germany at the weekend established a minister of tourism, apparently todraw more visito

The U.S. Customs Service appears ready to call off its bloodhounds in overseeing textile and apparel

From small rice farms in Mazatepec to vast fields in fertile valleys, Mexican agriculture is witheri

The Energy Department announced it approved five more projects for funding under its $2.5 billion Cl

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Six years after escaping Vietnam aboard a 30-foot wooden fishing boat, Son- Binh Nguyen made a resea

Riss International Corp., the Kansas City-based trucking company, reached the end of its road this w

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras announced it has resumed paying a freight surcharge that it ha

MARAD ALLOWS SUBSIDY FOR AGING APL SHIPSWASHINGTON - The Maritime Administration has agreed

Bodies had to be pulled from the rubble of crumbled homes after a tornado, heavy winds and hail roar

HEATING OIL FUTURES INCREASE ON NYMEXThe price of December heating oil futures on the New Yo

A leading member of the House Agriculture Committee Thursday predicted that Congress would take acti

A state appeals court has given the go-ahead for a $200 million class action suit against Eastman Ko

U.S. government and business officials have begun new discussions that could result in new shipments

U.S. import duties on Soviet goods may come down sharply by spring, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbac

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