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OFFICIAL DENIES FORD TO TAKE OVER SAABANTWERP, Belgium - The manager of Swedish automaker Sa

Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari appealed to the U.S. Congress Wednesday to help end non-

EC OFFICIAL BLASTS JAPANESE DISTRIBUTIONEuropean Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan strongly atta

Automotive suppliers - usually seen as competitors - are expected to increasingly join forces in the

Former U.S. Rep. Thomas F. Hartnett, awaiting word from the White House on his possible appointment

American President Lines Ltd. urged the Maritime Administration to ignore as ''imaginary" a key comp

MET LIFE HAS PACT TO BUY INTEGRATED UNITMetropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed in princi

Warren Leback, President Bush's nominee to head the Maritime Administration, pushed all the right bu

Nearly 1,000 shipping and transportation executives attended last week's Bulk Transpo '89, an intern

COFFEE GROUP ELECTS UGANDAN AS CHAIRMANThe International Coffee Organization elected James W

Quantum Chemical's Corp.'s Morris, Ill., ethylene plant, damaged by fire twice this summer, will sta

Polystyrene makers condemned a plan to ban their products from Interior Department buildings, and cl

European industrialists are not happy with the way in which freight forwarders and shipping lines ar

Wed., Oct. 4, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

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President Bush will ask Congress to appropriate an additional $200 million in economic aid for Polan

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

A House maritime subcommittee has cleared two measures that recognize and memorialize the services o

INDIA OKS EXPANSION AT MINING COMPANYNEW DELHI, India - The Indian government has decided to

World sugar futures prices rose sharply Wednesday in active trading on the New York Coffee, Sugar an

Alex Mandl, chairman of Sea-Land Service Inc., is optimistic about the ocean carrier's prospects in

A new Senate proposal, originally sponsored by Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D- Ohio, would make it more d

Robert A. Ellsworth, director of the Federal Maritime Commission's Bureau of Economic Affairs, says

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has set new conditions likely to put back the date for linking the

Howard S. Abramson was promoted to deputy bureau chief of The Journal of Commerce's Washington opera

Britain's North Sea oil and gas industry, celebrating its 25th anniversary, has confounded pessimist

Oct. 4, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

The Canadian government, despite rumors to the contrary, doesn't plan to hike immediately its excise

The United States and Canada may implement by next March quicker-than- expected tariff cuts on hundr

Secretary of State James A. Baker III told the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday that restrictions

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The number of working U.S. oil and gas rigs rose by 11 last week to 978, continuing a slow but stead

At least 20 percent of debt-laden Philippine Air Lines will be sold to foreign and domestic private

JUDGE RELEASES MONIES TO STRUGGLING EASTERNA federal bankruptcy court judge here has agreed

PEUGEOT MANAGEMENT CALLS OFF PAY TALKSEfforts to settle a month-old strike at Peugeot, Franc

Poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said Tuesday it had signed a contract to provide chicke

A Massachusetts House of Representatives vote due Wednesday is expected to test a controversial prov

MINERS UNION TO SEEK AFL-CIO AFFILIATIONThe United Mine Workers of America's policy-making I

Unocal Corp. said Tuesday that a restructuring of its retail and commercial gasoline marketing opera

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