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Slower-than-expected growth in cargo volume through Hong Kong's containerport is forcing a slowdown

The bluster is back in U.S.-South Korean trade relations, as Korean officials flatly refused Tuesday

The chief executive of this increasingly nervous business center will go all out today to restore ba

The first mine in what is described as China's largest coalfield should begin producing this year, b

WHILE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING was wonderful for Mae West, it has done the cocoa market wrong.

Recent medical studies have concluded that women who are healthy and do not smoke can take oral cont

The brownouts and power shortages that have become more common in some regions of the country, espec

Financier Sir James Goldsmith's announcement that he will drop lawsuits against nine state insurance

9 OIL COMPANIES WIN ELK HILLS CONTRACTSNine U.S. oil companies were awarded contracts to pur

For motorists driving without mandatory insurance - which may mean most of Miami - both the cost of

SEVERE ROTATOR CUFF INJURY is the risk run willingly by politicians who heartily and frequently pat

A U.S.-flag ship was to arrive in New Orleans at the weekend to be loaded with the first shipment of

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

The International Maritime Organization, the United Nations body concerned with the promotion of mar

Two former researchers at a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary said last week that the company concealed v

Still smarting from the loss of the Alaska state ferry terminal, the Seattle PortCommission says it

Broken Hill Proprietary Co., a major Australian commodity firm, said it has established a new bulk s

The Alaska state ferry system, a key carrier of passengers and cargo between the Lower 48 and Alaska

3M Corp. said a space shuttle mission this Thursday will test the effects of near-zero gravity on 17

RHONE-POULENC TO BUY DAIRY PRODUCTS FIRMRhone-Poulenc Inc. said it will buy an international

Polysar Inc., a unit of Nova Corp. of Alberta, Canada, will close its polystyrene resin plant in Cop

Japan Air System Co. Ltd. has ordered eight McDonnell Douglas Corp. MD-81 jets to be delivered betwe

Federal Express Corp. is hoping to make a decision by year-end on the location of a new European air

As hundreds of production workers picketed outside Boeing Co. plants in half a dozen cities, their u

London Metal Exchange copper stocks may have risen by 5,500 metric tons last week, traders surveyed

PROPOSAL WOULD SPUR AIRLINE COMPETITIONDeregulation in the airline industry has led to domin

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PRICES OF OCEAN freight futures contracts moved up and remained firm last week, while waiting for sp

Continental Grain Co. said it will not renew its lease for a grain elevator at the Port of Longview.

U.S. Senate legislation introduced last week to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Oct. 6, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

Ocean carriers operating between the United States and Far East can expect steady growth in containe

Fluor Daniel Inc. of Irvine, Calif. said it was awarded a contract by Novacor Chemicals Ltd. to buil

1469 (Oct. 6, 1989) Previous day - 1459 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

TRANSETTLEMENTS' TALKS WITH HARBINGER OFFNegotiations have broken off between TranSettlement

A proposal to revise Chicago Mercantile Exchange live hog futures by increasing the size of the cont

REGIONAL BLOCS Europe: 1992. Oct. 12. Coral Gables, Fla. Seminar co-organized by the Florida

JAPAN'S YOKOHAMA BUYS MOHAWK RUBBERYokohama Rubber Co., Japan's second-largest tire manufact

Like a lot of Canadian pork producers, farmer Tom Smith would like to know just what good the much-v