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Most major U.S. commercial banks will soon increase their provisions for possible losses on loans to

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Ireland could be Europe's big success story for 1989 with growth of almost 6 percent, but economists

The International Monetary Fund's top official appeared Thursday to rule out any substantive changes

A former salesman for the company that prints Business Week pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to

Global coffee export quotas are unlikely to be re-introduced at international coffee talks here over

HOG AND PORK BELLY FUTURES TRADERS - usually blase about international trade developments - are titi

Hercules Inc. has asked federal officials to impose anti-dumping duties on imports of industrial nit

POLAROID SELLS POLYURETHANE BUSINESSPolaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., sold its its special

The International Wheat Council Thursday revised its forecast for this season's world coarse grain c

Union Carbide Corp. said Thursday it has developed a process that eliminates the use of ozone-damagi

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WHAT IT IS: The Federal Maritime Commission's section 18 Report on the Shipping Act of 1984 is a 697

TEMPLE INTENSIFIES BID FOR SEA CONTAINERSA hostile suitor for Sea Containers Ltd. intensifie

Overcapacity and the use of larger vessels and fewer ports will continue to dominate the liner shipp

The Port of New Orleans will turn its attention in the coming year to its rail and navigational chan

Ocean carriers endorsed the Federal Maritime Commission's long-awaited report on the 1984 Shipping A

Four out of the nation's five leading international trade ports this year will be on the West Coast,

Logistec Corp. of Montreal has sold its one-third interest acquired last November in Oceans Internat

The Bush administration opposes legislation that would extend indefinitely the 1985 farm bill compro

After howls of outrage from the United States and Australia, the government of Taiwan did a swift ab

The first steps toward cleaning up the world's oceans were announced on Thursday, World Maritime Day

Two of the island's three main shipping lines are joining forces in a rare show of solidarity to hel

Engine teams at Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Renton, Wash., and General Electric Aircraft Engines

Negotiations are under way by Chinese officials to borrow US$43 million from Japan for a key northea

Hurricane Hugo isn't expected to delay Pan American World Airways' re-entry into the Puerto Rican ma

A Federal Maritime Commission law judge has recommended that Yangming Marine Transport Corp. pay an

Australian Industrial Relations Minister Peter Morris said Tuesday that domestic air services have r

Lufthansa German Airlines is making good on its long-standing promise to begin service from Frankfur

ECONOMY GREW 2.5 PERCENT IN 2ND QUARTERThe nation's economy grew at a revised 2.5 percent an

With the rapid growth of industry and trade in Southeast Asia, one of Japan's principal shipping lin

TEXAS AIR MAY SELL RESERVATION SYSTEMDALLAS - Texas Air Corp. is discussing the sale of its

Matson Freight Agencies Inc. has been appointed North American general agent for Naviera Interameric

A strike by unregistered dockworkers demanding regular jobs has crippled container movements at the

A lethargic federal bureaucracy is keeping on hold the initiatives needed to curb minor oil and toxi

A tanker owned by financially troubled Falcon Carriers Inc. could be back in business if the company

UK SAYS HOYLAKE BID NEED NOT FACE PANELThe U.K. government said Thursday there was no need t

American managers soon could be running collective farms in the Soviet Union. Gene Koch, pre

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