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

About $5,000 was raised recently when the New York chapter of the Rudder Club sponsored an awards ce

US-PANAMA SHIPPERS TO BOLSTER SECURITYShippers in the U.S.-Panama trade will begin paying mo

European banks are moving where carriers fear to tread. Spurred by a growing marketplace and

Puerto Rican business groups are asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to cancel a 12 percent ra

The logic of Massachusetts House leaders did not play well on Wall Street last week as three influen

Paul Arpin Van Lines has created a new freight forwarding subsidiary to assist in its international

Jon Huntsman, chairman of Huntsman Chemical Corp., is worried that the future leaders of American in

U.S. soybean meal is likely to face tough going this winter on the European market because of compet

The world sugar market is poised to rise out of its narrow 13-14.5 US cents- per-pound price range b

VIRGINIA PORT AUTHORITY (Norfolk, Va.) - Carroll N. Harris was named managing director of marketing

The Soviet plan to replace large parts of its aging and obsolete merchant fleet over the next five y

Like a ship preparing for a storm, the Massachusetts Port Authority seems to be bracing for the wors

Jaguar PLC said Thursday it was joining the Ford Motor Co. fleet in a $2.5 billion buyout, a surpris

Thu., Nov. 2, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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

Britain's newest containerport, scheduled to open in February, has been sold by Highland Participant

A congressional investigating agency says the Coast Guard still has a lot of hazardous waste cleanup

Officials acknowledge that a weak infrastructure is the main obstacle to future economic growth.

Cocoa merchants in the United States are moving to change the standard contract they use to buy coco

Japan's surplus in the broadest measure of its international transactions in goods and services, the

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

Fearful of provoking China into barring it from the mainland's potentially lucrative markets, Japan

Barge freight rates, pressured by an abundance of bearish factors, plunged Wednesday and are likely

The Panama Canal is no longer crucial to U.S. strategic or economic interests, but remains an import

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US OFFICIAL PUSHES NEED FOR SERVICES PACTU.S. service industries are overall strong competit

The fast-paced, peaceful political advances in East Germany presage similar alterations to the econo

Nov. 2, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Nov. 2, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

In his first major speech as maritime administrator, Warren Leback offered an early blueprint Thursd

An overwhelming mass of outdated regulations threatens to stall the automation of business communica

Breaking ranks from some airline brethren, Lufthansa German Airlines has called for the speedy retir

Calling it toxic waste dumping and the second Opium War, anti-smoking crusaders in Asia have accused

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

A Christmas tree salesman in Hawaii is asking the Maritime Administration to deliver an early presen

Coal miners in the Vorkuta region of the Soviet Arctic are blocking coal shipments to other Soviet a

Texaco Trading and Transportation Inc. said Thursday it had raised its posted price for all grades o

With shippers demanding service guarantees, there'll be more diversity and more reliance on third pa

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has undertaken a major restructuring of its port depar