Latest news

Two U.S. cargo airlines asked federal transportation officials to deny anArgentine carrier's request

Increasing American appetite for breadfruit, mangoes and other traditional West Indian foods, combin

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

FORD, SAAB SCRAP TALKS ON FUTURE COOPERATIONFord Motor Co. and Saab-Scania say they have dis

Eleven years ago, Ella Manalang was an underpaid kindergarten teacher at Burgos Elementary School.

The French Riviera means much more than sun worshipers filling the beaches at Nice, or film buffs fl

* Gordon Platt - Currency Forecast 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 5A* Stanford Erickson -

Airbus Industrie, the European aircraft consortium, may finance its new A321 aircraft from its partn

Recent cuts in ship registration fees by the world's two largest open registries will put money in t

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

The Soviet Baltic republic of Estonia announced plans to issue its own currency, an Estonian newspap

Two giants of the computer industry will butt heads Tuesday when IBM and Digital Equipment Corp. bot

EARLY THIS MONTH, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. asked a federal appeals court in New

Do it cheap, and make sure users have a loud voice in what's going on. That's the formula th

ORION AIR (Raleigh, N.C.) - John Parker, chief financial officer, has assumed the duties of Robert C

The Federal Maritime Commission is looking for a few choice guinea pigs to test its automated tariff

A group of U.S. investors, headed by investment bankers Bear Stearns & Co., took a controlling stake

Federal prosecutors told U.S. District Court Judge Ann Williams Friday they would decide whether to

In the late 1970s, Cuba's beleaguered government began giving unprecedented leeway to novel, for-pro

MICKEY MOUSE LEARNS TO SPEAK RUSSIANMake way for Comrade Mousesky.Soviet readers wil

The General Accounting Office said late last week that South Korea's trade protection policy has pro

A group of seven Massachusetts hospitals has formed the state's first private-sector, self-insured w

Nothing should follow success like more success is the hopeful marketing philosophy of Brazilian air

THE BALTIC FREIGHT INDEX, the daily measure of dry bulk ocean freight rates, soared 99 points last w

A ringing endorsement by Australian Trade Minister Michael Duffy of the U.S. agricultural trade refo

An insurance payoff of $2 billion, the largest in California's history, may be required to cover dam

The government's Superfund money has not been spent wisely, with only some 40 percent going to clean

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Year10/20 00/19 Ch

Five Western and three Soviet banks will open the first mixed capital bank in the Soviet Union to fi

Prominent Swedish shipowner Argonaut AB is coming to Wall Street to raise $60 million for a long-ter

More than 2,800 transportation executives from all over the world are expected to converge here this

China Friday reported that inflation had slowed dramatically due to its 13- month-old austerity prog

Burlington Northern Railroad, happy with its joint marketing agreement with Atchison, Topeka and San

Fri., Oct. 20, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

ARGENTINA NEGOTIATES BIG LATIN GRAIN SALESBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina has begun nego

The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded two weekly spot coal contracts in the first half of this mont

CRA LTD. ACQUIRES BP AUSTRALIA MINESSYDNEY, Australia - CRA Ltd., a major Australian mining

Oct. 20, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Rather than waiting around for government support that never materializes, badly strapped U.S. shipy

1593 (Oct. 20, 1989) Previous day - 1554 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in