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A formula used by shipowners and oil companies to analyze the cost of moving petroleum products acro

Waterfront employers on the East and Gulf coasts will resume contract negotiations with the Internat

BUSINESS INVENTORIES ROSE 0.2 PERCENT IN OCTOBERU.S. business inventories rose a moderate 0.

Natural gas prices for end users during the 1988-89 winter should average about 6 percent higher tha

CHEVRON INTERNATIONAL LTD. (San Francisco) - Gerald Fuller was named general manager for operations

Managers of electronic data interchange systems are not too worried about their systems being infilt

TWO REAPPOINTED TO TULSA PORT BOARDTULSA, Okla. - Edward Keller and Robert Bost have been re

Federal Express Corp.'s net income rose 19 percent to $52.5 million, or $1.01 a share, from $44 mill

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

Europeans prefer them red, Asians prefer them white. Florida grapefruit growers, shipping th

* Importers Say Customs' Fraud Probe Shows Hostility 4A * Vera Trojan - Questions on Coordin

BAHAMAS - $10 million from the World Bank for technical and vocational training, in particular in th

Wed., Dec. 14, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Federal Maritime Commission has concluded it lacks jurisdiction to regulate agreements among oce

Supplies of petroleum products followed normal seasonal patterns, as distillate fuel inventories dec

READING & BATES SELLS GOLDEN OAK MININGTULSA, Okla. - Reading & Bates Corp. said it has ente

A story headlined, French Line Postpones Layoffs, that appeared in The Journal of Commerce Nov. 25 o

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS. (Oakland, Calif.) - J. Douglass Coates was promoted to president of American

Australia's Ansett Transport Industries is determined to develop its Asian air cargo connection, des

The Seafarers International Union asked the Maritime Administration to hold hearings on Internationa

Word that industrial output posted strong growth again in November and pushed capacity use higher le

ILLINOIS, CHUBB SETTLE DROUGHT COVER DISPUTESPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois has dropped adminis

Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, this week promoted new vice presidents, including five key interna

The Soviet Union's plans to devalue the Soviet ruble for commercial transactions could mean a drop i

Talk between computers is getting cheaper and easier. Competitive pressures are dropping the

The business of processing and sending electronic data interchange messages is highly amorphous and

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

SOUTH KOREA TO FREEZE STEEL EXPORTS IN '89SEOUL, South Korea - The government will freeze ex

A stagnant textile sector and rising costs at home hammered the interim profit of Winsor Industrial

As 50 members of the International Longshoremen's Association deep-sea labor union finish unloading

Analysts said Taiwan's finance officials are being pressed to invigorate thedormant local bo

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Thousands of striking dockworkers demanding higher pay have paralyzed major Brazilian ports, authori

The expected approval of the U.S.-Canada trade agreement has already prompted one Canadian pulp manu

Italian chemical giant Montedison Wednesday approved a plan to merge most of its chemical activities

It's hailed as a relatively painless way to cut the federal deficit, a curb on the Organization of P

Nevada Insurance Commissioner David A. Gates was named president of the National Association of Insu

A decision on the application by Sedgwick County, Kan., to the U.S. Department of Commerce for a fre

Amerford International Corp., a venerable air freight forwarder based in Queens, is entertaining sui

President-elect Bush named Trade Representative Clayton K. Yeutter to serve as his secretary of agri