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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

The owner of a barge arrested earlier this month in New York harbor had two other barges and two tug

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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