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Working-level talks will be held next month between South Korea and Japan on expansion of ferry serv

The International Monetary Fund and the Brazilian congress have set diametrically opposed courses fo

More American companies could penetrate foreign markets if shipping goods overseas were as simple an

American President Lines Ltd. is seeking Maritime Administration permission to expand its use of for

With trans- Pacific cargo volumes still growing, Maersk Line has agreed to lease a $35 million conta

Aug. 25, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

Aug. 25, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Shipowners' protection and indemnity associations are having to collect more money from their member

Spain's state monopoly on television ended Friday when the government awarded three lucrative privat

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

When the European Community's brain trust began fashioning plans for the creation of a truly single

Itaconic Acid Pfizer Inc.'s chemical division has increased prices for itaconic acid effecti

Daimler-Benz, West Germany's largest company, soon may become bigger still. The Stuttgart-ba

The Soviet Union, striving to improve its overall transport system, is actively beefing up its inter

MACHINE TOOL ORDERS SLUMPED 25 PERCENT IN JULYNew orders for U.S.-built machine tools plunge

The United States intends to use crop-export subsidies to stay competitive in world commodity market

Burlington Northern Railroad Co.'s efforts to penetrate eastern utility markets have paid off this y

A European Community leader Friday told Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki he could count on t

1426 (Aug. 25, 1989) Previous day - 1427 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Seven hospitals in Massachusetts agreed to lower rates charged private insurers after lue Cross-Blue

West Germany's 1976 Co-Determination Act covers joint-stock companies, limited partnership companies

REGIONAL BLOCS Doing Business in Israel: Meeting the Challenge of 1992. Sept. 11. Short<

International Business Machines Corp. has formed a joint venture with a Singapore government-backed

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

AIRCLAIMS GROUP (Heathrow Airport, London) - Michael A. Conron was appointed president and chief exe

The nation's largest proposed harbor project - a $319 million expansion of the Houston Ship Channel

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Fri., Aug. 25, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Knight-Ridder Inc. announced at the weekend that Alvah H. Chapman Jr., chairman since 1982, will st

It may be premature to predict a short life for the London Futures and Options Exchange's - also kno

THE AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE reported a few days ago that the United States imported more than 5

NEW FREIGHTLINER TRUCK KNOWN AS 'SLEEPER CAB'PORTLAND, Ore. - Freightliner Corp.'s new Class

OPEC HEADS OF STATE EXPECTED TO MEETHeads of state of at least several members of the Organi

Police in Malaysia are investigating an alleged fraud that may have cost an insurance company 3 mill

TAIWAN NOT DUMPING MARTIAL ARTS UNIFORMSThe International Trade Commission reversed itself l

COCOA FUTURES SET NEW CONTRACT LOWSCocoa futures slumped to post a new set of contract lows

Officials at Phillips 66 Co. are expected to announce how long its Houston petrochemical plant will

For Margaret Thatcher, Britain's feisty prime minister, standing alone in opposition to the leaders

In the midst of a major crisis in the state's health-care system, the president of Blue Cross and Bl

CHAO WILL PRESENT AOTOS AWARDSU.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao will prese