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Thailand is the latest Southeast Asian nation to consider using nuclear energy as a way to ensure an

Benny Ng was trim, in uniform and worried about his image when he stopped for a beer in the officers

An electric utility says the amount of money is trivial, but the Connecticut Independent Petroleum A

Williams Natural Gas Co., an interstate natural gas pipeline, is between a rock and a hard place.

Air cargo tends to be made up of disproportionately high-value, lighter- weight goods. The p

South Korean exporters are looking to Europe for a secure market as they diversify away from the Uni

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FEDNAV LTD. (Montreal) - Ted H. Winter was named executive vice president and chief operating office

The Maritime Administration has sold its rights to a sunken Liberty ship to Hugh O'Neill and Brian H

The story "Comex Suspends, Fines Semel & Co.," in The Journal of Commerce, Aug. 25, Page 6A, mistake

Jim Emery was by no means a unanimous choice for the position when he was named by President Reagan

For the week ended Aug. 19, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

THE ECONOMY'S SUMMERTIME brush with recession fears, and now an apparent resurgence as it takes anot

GROUP FILES PLAN TO CUT SC PREMIUMSCOLUMBIA, S.C. - Insurance rates in two major lines of co

CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN TRANSPORTATION CO. (Chicago) - Jeffrey H. Koch was promoted to vice presid

Mark C. Fellner has joined Elders Futures Inc. as a specialist in the metals and foreign exchange gr

Foreign direct investment in the United States will continue to increase by $40 billion to $50 billi

A plunge in world coffee prices, following the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in Jul

AIR PRODUCTS RAISES INDUSTRIAL GAS PRICESAir Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pa. w

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

In 1983 when Jim Emery took the helm of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., the agency overse

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Qantas Airways, the Australian flag carrier, was to begin extensive freighter service from Chicago t

A law firm needs to dispatch one of its partners to London to work on a complicated case. A multinat

Air Jamaica, the state-owned national carrier that flies mainly between the island and the United St

A story headlined "Conn. Port Operator Is Feeling Squeeze By Non-ILA Units," in The Journal of Comme

The dollar's August rally stalled last week, a development that may set the stage for arenewed perio

PRICES OF ocean freight futures contracts slipped initially last week, but later pulled up toward th

Nerco Inc.'s minerals unit, Nerco Minerals Co., Vancouver, Wash., will acquire Texasgulf Minerals an

Double-stack railroad service has had an unanticipated role in boosting the amount of agricultural p

LINGERING DROUGHT DRAINS GRAIN RESERVESThis year's lingering drought in major wheat areas co

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

CATHAY CONFIRMS ORDER FOR 10 AIRBUS A330STOULOUSE, France - Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific

A year ago, Rotondo/Penn-Cast Inc., a small concrete firm in bucolic Telford, Bucks County, Pa., was

Off-pier consolidators seeking damages from shipping lines that enforced the defunct 50-mile contain

UK STOCK SECTOR INDEX TRADING TO BE UNVEILEDCiticorp Scrimgeour Vickers will introduce futur

Some countries are lowering barriers to foreign ownership of their oil and other resources, but many

Shipping lines and exporters involved in short-sea shipping operations from Britain are about to sta

BACKGROUND: The U.S. relationship with Canada is productive, complex and intense - more so than with