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West Germany must maintain real interest rates sufficiently above U.S. rates to allow an appreciatio

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Transport and communications officials from across the Soviet Union are meeting in the Baltic Sea Po

Japanese negotiators will have at least one success story to point to in the latest round of market

Combustion Engineering Inc. and the Soviet Union's Ministry of Chemicals and Oil Refining Industries

Momentum toward firmer rates among the major U.S. property-casualty insurance companies appears to b

A Taiwanese cargo consolidator told a Federal Maritime Commission hearing last week that five shipme

Jacksonville Shipyards Inc. said it will close in January, idling up to 1,500 workers, unless a buye

Datafax, a new global facsimile-delivered edition of The Journal of Commerce, will be launched today

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is seriously considering a subsidy for the financing of U.S. goods going

Rupert Denney was named port manager of this steamship agency's Baltimore, Md., operations.

The waters of Long Island Sound are clear and wide, but they may not be wide enough for all the pilo

A consultant to the new state agency taking over the Port of Philadelphia told the board that it sho

RECENT PRESS REPORTS speak of a bottoming out of the domestic energy industry. The message is that t

PRICES OF OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES CONTRACTS attempted last week to edge above the big barriers that se

Central Illinois Public Service Co. is the latest utility to join the growing fraternity of power co

Brazil, the country with the world's largest fuel alcohol program, soon will import methanol and eth

TIGHTER VAPOR CONTROLS URGED FOR GASOLINEA consumer group is calling for tighter controls on

Average gasoline prices dipped again during the two weeks ending Nov. 2, the New York State Energy O

Nov. 10, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Seven days a week, 16 hours a day, the orange locomotives of a railroad you've probably never heard

ACCESS ENERGY CORP. (Dublin, Ohio) - Harry L. Bush was named manager of natural gas sales. H

Fuel oil interests fighting the proposed Iroquois natural gas pipeline from Canada through New York

ICC REJECTS BN BID TO DELAY UTILITY'S CASEThe Interstate Commerce Commission has rejected a

Sen. John B. Breaux, D-La., is confident that his colleagues this week will defeat an effort to waiv

CHEVRON CHIEF URGES PRODUCTION GUARANTEEOil companies should be guaranteed the right to prod

Donald Petersen will retire as chairman March 1. He will be succeeded by Harold Poling, Ford's vice

A RAILROAD INDUSTRY POSITION already is becoming clear even though the legislative fight over the fe

An important piece has been added to the jigsaw puzzle of global electronic communications.

Taiwan will not bow to international pressure to ban the use of drift nets by its fishing fleet, the

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open a new and larger lock system on the mid-Mississippi

Workers have dredged a 14-mile river to open Iraq's largest port to major commercial traffic from th

Creditors of Sanko Steamship Co. early this month approved a reorganization plan for the debt-ridden

A recent round of layoffs has been unsettling, especially for the communities and individuals involv

Rafael Fabregas, the new chief of Puerto Rico's government-owned shipping line, says his first prior

Hungary will open the first stock exchange in Eastern Europe early next year as it paves a new road

More than $80 million is being poured into Hungary by foreign investors to support joint ventures an

World insurance premiums are forecast to come to a parting of the ways next year, with European poli

JAPAN URGED TO HIKE TRADE AGENCY BUDGETU.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills urged Japan to