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PHILIPPINES OFFERS PAY RAISE PACKAGEMANILA, Philippines - Philippine legislators Tuesday off

Increasing world environmental attention on Brazil, and the country's growing environmental consciou

Compagnie Generale Maritime (CGM) and Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries Co. each have confirme

Japan's private-level direct overseas investments in the latest fiscal year, ended March 31, soared

As anticipated, authorities of the Bank of Japan Tuesday announced a raise in the nation's official

New projections by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development paint a bleaker picture

GOLD STAR VIDEOTAPES WILL BE MADE IN USSEOUL, South Korea - Gold Star Co. will produce video

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills vigorously defended the United States' naming last week of Jap

D. H. BLAIR & CO. (New York) - Marlene Krauss, 44, was named managing director of corporate finance

The World Bank's executive board moved Tuesday toward defining the bank's role in helping implement

Sea Containers Ltd. had no comment on the tender offer by Stena Holding AG and Tip- hook PLC for the

A one-day seminar in Piraeus, Greece, next week will analyze three key U.S. government initiatives a

Funeral services were held Saturday for steamship magnate Charles Parkhill Lykes, longtime chairman

Tue., May 30, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

The question of non-payment of levies by producer countries once again will be high on the agenda of

While the U.S. Dollar Index ended 1988 with an 8.3 percent gain, the dollar wasn't far from the floo

PACIFIC EXCHANGE PLANS COMPUTER CHIP FUTURESSAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Stock Exchange said

VENEZUELA CUTS TARIFFS UNDER NEW TRADE POLICYCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Carlo

Canadian brewers - worried that cheaper American beer is grabbing a growing share of a stagnating ma

Walt Disney Co., the champion of American entertainment since it brought Mickey Mouse to life in the

Lufthansa AG's latest product is not an excursion fare or a cargo service, but an electronic freight

The breakdown of trade barriers in the European Community in 1992 will be the chief topic of discuss

An influential House member is drafting legislation to address the issue of fraud and the federal re

Towing crews are preparing the battered tanker Exxon Valdez, with chunks of an Alaskan reef still em

A House maritime subcommittee has approved legislation transferring bridge administration duties to

Votainer Consolidation Services (New York) Inc., an ocean freight consolidator, is moving to a large

AFRICAN MINISTERS URGE DEBT WRITE-OFFSABUJA, Nigeria - African finance ministers called on c

May 30, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

HOFFDDORP, Netherlands - IN LIVELY discussion with three Dutch executives involved in international

COURT REFUSES TO HEAR CHALLENGE OF BANK LAWThe Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review a ch

BRITISH AIRWAYS SEES CONSTRAINED GROWTHNEW YORK - British Airways PLC Chairman Colin Marshal

The Philadelphia law firm of Bernstein, Bernstein & Harrison Friday filed one of the first Philadelp

Orville Redenbacher may be a well-known popcorn king in the United States, but in Japan most people

The term Fortress Europe has become perhaps the biggest cliche in world trade circles over the past

Those of you fretting over the deterioration of the U.S. merchant fleet, take heart: Help may be on

The European commissioner for the internal market said the United States and Japan must follow the E

A cocoa terminal established early this year at an unused Brooklyn dock has proven far more successf

Hapag-Lloyd, the West German shipping and tourism group, said Tuesday that shipping increased group

Fred Pitre, president of Canada Steamship Lines, has urged the federal government to draw up a marin

May 30, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.