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U.S. money center banks are in better shape than is generally acknowledged, claimed Charles Orabutt,

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

Along the broad, gray expanse of the Columbia River, the picture at the Port of Kalama, Wash., looke

The recent move by Compagnie Generale Maritime to divorce itself from Incotrans and break up the Pac

China is preparing to publish its first series of guides to help local manufacturers find the best s

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

A unanimous Supreme Court Tuesday handed the business community a serious defeat, ruling that employ

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SAIMA IS AN ITALIAN FREIGHT FORWARDING company whose roots reach to 1816 - a year after the politica

ARKANSAS FREIGHTWAYS TO REGISTER OFFERINGHARRISON, Ark. - Arkansas Freightways Corp. filed a

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

Japan isn't buying the United States nor is it seeking to topple America from Western world leadersh

A panel of scientists Tuesday tried to sidestep the furor over last summer's drought and the greenho

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case brought by two railroads seeking to limit their

Funeral services for Fred H. Tolan, a lawyer and transportation consultant widely known in the Pacif

French road haulers are more afraid of their Dutch competitors than any other as the 1992 deadline f

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Starting today, Santa Monica residents can fire off a complaint to City Hall, look for a job or chec

GLAXO PLANS TO MARKET ITS FIRST ORPHAN DRUGRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Glaxo Inc. plans t

The United States finally bowed to the pressure of international opinion and agreed to the establish

The proposed alliance between the leading French insurer Union des Assurances de Paris and Banque Na

The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board has approved the purchase of 153 acres on which it

A judge Tuesday recommended that Amoco Corp. be ordered to pay about $115 million to France and near

TANDEM CHIEF ACCENTS IMPORTANCE OF GROWTHSAN JOSE, Calif. - "I once ran the marathon in 2 ho

The sudden flurry of shipbuilding orders placed by some of the world's top container shipping lines

At least 30 workers were hurt at South Korea's biggest shipbuilder Tuesday when strikers clashed wit

International Paper Co., the largest U.S. maker of photocopy paper, said last week it believes the F

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines will slash one day off transit time for containers moving between Los Angeles an

In the macho world of highway trucking, no name conveyed more muscle during the 1950s, '60s and '70s

The federal foreign aid agency says the time has come for a radical reshaping of the way the United

C.A.W.T., a San Francisco-based trade finance company partially owned by Austrian banking giant Cred

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau: Soybeans 12A* Don C. Becker - Publisher

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In a case that Washington state says cost its insurance guaranty fund $14 million, top officers of t

NY PORT PANEL AWARDS AUTO TERMINAL CONTRACTIn line with the $5.8 billion capital program in

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Orient Overseas (International) Ltd., or OOIL, is refinancing a New York office building regarded as

MNX Inc., a rapidly growing truck line that suffered an earnings slump last year, announced an agree

The U.S. Customs Service has added three countries, Ecuador, Hungary andAntigua-Barbuda, to

One of Canada's biggest retailers warns suppliers that they had better learn to communicate by compu