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A top official of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday that he wants U.S. commodity

British Airways PLC is turning to its shareholders to raise 320 million ($515 million) to help fund

The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded contracts for coal needed at its Widows Creek station in Stev

The Jeep, once the workhorse of the Army and rugged outdoorsmen, is becoming a status symbol for sty

The electronics and high-technology industry, the symbol of entrepreneurial creativity through most

The U.S. Congress enacted the Carriage of Goods By Sea Act (Cogsa) in 1936, attempting to protect sh

The Georgia Ports Authority says Zim Israel Navigation Co. and related companies are "blowing hot an

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Wed., Sept. 27, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

The flood of up to 100,000 skilled young East German workers into West Germany is expected to spur l

On Wednesday, a VIS, a Very Important Salmon, was scheduled to ply the North Atlantic from Oslo to N

EAC Lines has renewed a five-year terminal use agreement with the Port of Oakland. Under the

Sun Co. announced plans to develop a series of cleaner-burning motor fuels and will work with an Eas

Chances for a dock strike increased again Wednesday when waterfront labor and management failed to m

Any initial misgivings among customers of Norasia Lines Ltd. about the joint venture with Sea-Land S

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher said the United States would try to persuade its allies to shut

Factories in northeastern Puerto Rico were hit the hardest as damage claims filed since Hurricane Hu

Inquiring minds want to know . . . When is New York State Superintendent of Insurance James P. Corco

The Soviet Union is spreading its wings in the international aviation world. It has been gra

A story on Page 12B of the Sept. 22 edition of The Journal of Commerce, ''Cargo Reserve Bill for Lak

Coast Guard officials subpoenaed the captain of the oil tanker World Prodigy late Tuesday but said i

BA BULLISH UAL DEAL WOULD PASS US TESTSBritish Airways PLC's top executives said they are co

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis announced Tuesday that his cabinet-level Executive Office of Energy Resource

The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service awarded a $128,000 contract to study the econo

The four national dockworker unions at India's 11 principal ports are planning fresh disruptions ove

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Canadian shipowners are converting bulk carriers to self-unloaders as a result of the sharp drop in

Several Western companies are entering joint ventures with the Soviet airline Aeroflot in an effort

OIL COMPANY OFFICIAL MIGHT GET ICC POSTAn oil company executive with no known transportation

A California appellate court has ruled bad faith actions filed before August 1988 are not valid unti

The Italian agro-industrial giant Ferruzzi, stung by hefty losses, is beating a retreat from the for

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U.S. textile producers emerged the winners in this week's showdown on Capitol Hill over proposed leg

Gasoline and distillate inventories increased, the American Petroleum Institute's latest weekly supp

Railroads are resolving a situation that has been one of the greatest drags on the growth of transpo

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, on the eve of his first official visit to Washington, said he i

A war of words between the Port of Hampton Roads and the Port of Baltimore might erupt into an all-o

Major basic industries see themselves on a rare plateau instead of past boom- and-bust cycles, and t

CROSS-MARGINING AHEAD FOR STOCK INDEXESThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Options Clear