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Tanker owners cannot afford to replace their aging vessels until earnings recover further, according

CARBIDE TO PHASE OUT RESINS AT W.VA. PLANTUnion Carbide Corp. said it was closing down solut

A five-day-old strike by office employees of Puerto Rico's state-owned shipping line is slowing deli

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

KELLWOOD TO ACQUIRE SAIPAN MANUFACTURERSST. LOUIS - Kellwood Co., manufacturer and marketer

FAMILIES TO REVEAL DATA ON PAN AM CRASHFamily members of passengers killed in the crash of P

While shipowners praise the Norwegian International Ship Registry, labor leaders in Norway say it ha

Ancient stories told of Vikings sailing to the New World. Today many see a new world for Nor

The Coast Guard has put into effect a rule that revises and simplifies merchant mariner-licensing re

BROYHILL FILLS POST AT NC COMMERCE DEPT.RALEIGH, N.C. - Jim Broyhill, a former U.S. senator

Compaq Computer Corp. is reducing resale price of its highly successful Compaq Deskpro 386s product

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1553 (Feb. 6, 1989) Previous day - 1607 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL BANNED FROM AID ROLEThe U.S. Department of Education banned Superior Tr

GE UNIT IS MARKETING BUSINESSTALK VARIANTROCKVILLE, Md. - GE Information Services has begun

MEXICO, US TO SCRAP $3.5 BILLION LOAN PACTMEXICO CITY - Mexican and U.S. authorities have de

Samuel K. Skinner was sworn in Monday as the 10th secretary of transportation. The Chicago n

Conference on Optical Fiber Communications, Feb. 6-9. George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Te

The Group of 7 finance ministers and central bankers, in a meeting some said was unnecessary, decide

The volume of express mail handled by the U.S. Postal Service increased 20 percent during its first

Growth is nothing new to profitable Thai Airways International, but a recent plague of well-publiciz

Mon., Feb. 6, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

Booming airfreight business between the Far East and Europe is persuading British Airways to reconsi

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Indonesia's Garuda airline plans to invest nearly $2 billion in a score of wide-bodied jets to suppo

US CONSERVATION PLAN PROCEEDING ON SCHEDULEThe U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday said th

Cotton futures have gradually advanced in recent months, after having been fairly low priced last Au

Ask Mr. Foster Travel, founded 100 years ago by a know-it-all who insisted his shops be run by singl

AMERICAN LIKELY TO BUY 60 MD-11S, 100 MD-80S NEW YORK - American Airlines is expected to a

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other Bush administration cabinet agencies

Ray MacSharry, the European Community's new farm commissioner, said he would give a high priority t

Canadians looking for assurance that their country won't be ignored by Washington now that a free tr

An association of imported car dealers has advocated a three-point plan to settle the dispute over t

A major group of domestic steel distributors Monday urged a three-year phase- out of U.S. steel impo

Textile Quotas to Watch as of 2/4/89* Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 2/4/89

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

In eight years, when the British crown colony of Hong Kong is turned over to the communist governmen

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach handled 4 percent more containers of imported cargo in 1988

The commonwealth's Government Development Bank has decided to foreclose on a three-nation, joint ven

Fortune tellers were doing a roaring trade as Asia awaited the arrival of the Year of the Snake.