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The Port of Tacoma is helping to launch a new kind of export trade that it believes will be easy as

IBM Corp. said it's already producing an advanced component deemed crucial to future electronics pro

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

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The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

State-owned Philippine Air Lines posted a profit of 302 million pesos (US$14 million) in the fiscal

About 4 million barrels of Brent system North Sea crude oil may not be shipped in July following del

THE ROLE OF RAILROAD public relations executives has changed in recent years. Increasingly,

It's the third straight cargo preference victory for the maritime industry in recent weeks, and perh

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Principles of EDI, three-day seminar, July 12-14. Santa Clara, Calif. Contact: Terri Carlton, EDI Ed

Ocean carriers that follow the Maritime Security Council's newly adopted ethics code and later get f

The Bush administration may halt the longstanding policy of loaning Third World countries money to b

The colonial government is lodging formal action with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ove

DURABLE GOODS ORDERS DECLINED 4.2 PERCENT IN MAYDurable goods orders fell a sharp 4.2 percen

In the year plus since the roof ripped off an Aloha Airlines jet and a flight attendant plunged to h

As sunlight burns through the night in Iceland, fish are being flown fresh to markets in the United

JAPANESE QUESTIONING PAYMENT TO BOEING CO.Japanese opposition members of parliament are ques

CHEMEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC. (Denver) - Chief Executive Herbert H. McDade Jr. was elected chairman of

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The heavily weighted plywood component of the Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index helped push

London cocoa traders say they don't understand what role Moutafian Commodities Ltd. could have in ma

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CONTAINERPORT OFFERS LOUISVILLE SERVICESContainerPort Group is offering transportation servi

The gubernatorial campaign of Democrat Rep. James Florio is charging thata car insurance consumer ac

UAE TO BOOST TAX ON CIGARETTE IMPORTSABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emira

In the 1960s, it was unisex haircuts. In the '70s, it was unisex fashion. This decade? How about uni

The International Institute of Container Lessors has released its 1989 edition of the Directory of C

Great Lakes port officials will get a close look this week at some slime- covered visitors from over

The two-week old walkout by thousands of union miners sympathetic to the plight of striking employee

The Tennessee Valley Authority said its weekly spot coal purchases declined to only 6,000 tons under

Two companies involved in a complicated subsidized tug-barge vessel charter arrangement are seeking

The 8,000 ships outfitted with Inmarsat's Standard-A satellite terminals will now have access to the

Software from a Chicago company will soon be flowing into the Soviet Union in exchange for hard curr

Net new orders for U.S.-built machine tools plummeted 36.8 percent in Mayfrom the same month

Doubts over China's long-term stability may linger for months after the bloody suppression of pro-de

U.S. investment in Malaysia rocketed 263 percent in the first quarter ofthis year from the correspon

There is no doubt that the U.S. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 is well known in Mexico.

MALAYSIANS REVISE GROWTH FORECASTKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The Malaysian Institute of Economi

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