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AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES LTD. (Oakland, Calif.) - John G. Burgess was named senior vice president re

A sister port relationship beteen Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the Port of New York & New Jersey was

Direct foreign investment, in decline in recent years, remains the last great, untapped reservoir fo

REPAIR WORK BEGINS ON EXXON VALDEZRepair work began Monday on the tanker Exxon Valdez, the v

U.S. retail sales for August are expected to continue the modest pace of recent months, but again wi

The Great Lakes are "uniquely vulnerable" to a major oil spill, a Senate subcommittee was warned las

The State Department strengthened its ban on sugar imports from Panama Tuesday by denying that count

One of the fascinating aspects of the shipping business is that the players come from all over the w

Sept. 12, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

Negotiators for International Longshoremen's Association checkers and their employers in the South A

An upcoming U.S. appeals court decision could have a major impact on whether tape-recorded evidence

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners Tuesday voted to recommend state passage of a mo

AEGON INSURANCE GROUP (The Hague, Netherlands) - R.A.M. van der Meer was named an adviser to the exe

1440 (Sept. 12, 1989) Previous day - 1441 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Dow Chemical Co. and United Technologies Corp. of Danbury, Conn., announced a joint venture to make

The United States may be able to provide a better "safety net" of support for its farmers if it gain

SEN. LUGAR: US WON'T ACCEPT COFFEE PACTSen. Richard Lugar, senior Republican member of both

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Futures contracts on sugar jumped upward in response to a U.S. announcement that the 1989 import quo

EC REJECTS CRITICISM OF IMPORT ORIGIN RULESBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Tuesda

JAPAN'S TRADE SURPLUS NARROWED IN AUGUSTJapan recorded a trade surplus of $3.44 billion in A

CALIF. FIRM TO SUPPLY PCS TO SOVIET SCHOOLSA small U.S. company has been picked to supply sc

The Bush administration plans to press for new international negotiations to help U.S. exporters ove

''The creation of the single European market, or 1992 for short, does not just involve the removal

Japanese International Trade and Industry Minister Hikaru Matsunaga met Tuesday with U.S. Commerce S

NORTH AMERICA New York Pret. Sept. 17-19. New York. 1,200 collections of fine women's ready-

China's imports of steel in the first half of this year increased nearly 1 million metric tons on th

Nine leading shipping companies have chosen Harold G. "Lucky" Holden as the new executive director o

Although exports are the key to Venezuela's economic recovery, the country is ill-prepared for the

GAMING DEVICE MAKERS REACH TENTATIVE ACCORDRENO, Nev. - Two of the nation's leading gaming d

U.S. and Canadian limousine makers are railing at each other over whether Canadian stretch limousine

State Street Bank's plans to do business in Japan are facing the challenge of concerns closer to hom

Japan is poised to begin playing a major role in making electronic communications a standard way of

XTRA REACHES ACCORD ON ROLLING STOCK SALEBOSTON - XTRA Corp. said Tuesday that it has reache

The catastrophic health insurance program, which has raised the ire of the elderly citizens who are

US HANDS-OFF POLICY URGED IN BAT BATTLEThe trans-Atlantic battle over Sir James Goldsmith's

What will be Sir James Goldsmith's next maneuver to get the state insurance commissioners in the Uni

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has remanded a well-traveled case, involving the abortive sale

The Exxon Valdez catastrophe has cast a long shadow over this week's gathering of the world's top ma

The heavy truck market scored a paper gain last month as sales topped the recall-stricken results of