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National Waterways Conference. Seminar on managing and marketing inland river ports and terminals. N

Burlington Northern Inc., which includes the nation's largest rail system, is under investigation by

David F. White has joined The Journal of Commerce as a maritime writer based in New York. Fo

The Port of Tacoma has launched a 15-month lobbying campaign to secure $162 million to settle Indian

A reinsurance trade group reports that its members' net premiums written for the first nine months o

Spurred by the success of a California referendum forcing insurance rate rollbacks, a Florida organi

CALIF. COURT URGED: LIFT STAY ON PROPOSITIONSponsors of Proposition 103 asked the state Supr

Lloyd's of London is attempting to restore some of its competitive edge with a planned reduction in

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The Korean government ordered the dismissal of American Life Insurance Co.'s chief of operations in

Eleven insurance companies have requested exemptions from rate cuts mandated by Proposition 103, Sta

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Thirteen major shipping lines involved in the trans-Pacific trade unanimously agreed Tuesday to limi

THIS WEEK: New England: Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, Manchester, N.H.Mid-Atlantic: N

The British government will introduce legislation soon to privatize the nation's electricity industr

JAPANESE TO TIGHTEN COCOM EXPORT CONTROLSThe cabinet on Tuesday agreed to revise Japan's tra

The Japanese government will ask the United States not to conduct an investigation into Japan's cons

Discussions started Tuesday in Minneapolis to link Minnesota's booming medical and health-care equip

Two former Energy Department officials Tuesday unveiled an ambitious plan of tax incentives and rese

SUN BUYS INTEREST IN NORTH SEA FIELDRADNOR, Pa. - Sun Co. said Tuesday that it purchased a 5

Nov. 22, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The French state utility, Electricite de France, postponed ordering its next nuclear power plant by

How the food was served at an election watching party here at the Canadian consulate Monday night wa

AMVEST CORP. (Charlottesville, Va.) - James S. Brown was promoted to senior vice president of Inter-

CHINA, ARCO TO DEVELOP NATURAL GAS FIELDSAfter years of negotiations, China and Atlantic Ric

Guadalajara International Book Fair. Nov. 23-Dec. 4. Guadalajara, Mexico. Fair to focus on improving

Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp. USA, Nashville, Tenn., has tapped six companies for its 1988 Suppli

In the Nov. 17 edition of The Journal of Commerce on Page 3A, under the headline of Surge in Steel E

B+H MARITIME CARRIERS FILES PUBLIC OFFERINGHAMILTON, Bermuda - B+H Maritime Carriers Ltd., a

Tim Dwyer, vice president for Sun Microsystems Inc., a computer company based in Mountain View, Cali

Chinese officials expect exports of rubber products to earn $400 million this year, more than 40 per

In February 1987 MIPS Computer Systems of Sunnyvale, Calif., a small start-up company with annual re

* U.S. Approves First Foreign Futures Contract 6A * H. Erich Heinemann - First Crisis for Ge

Nervous retailers faced with sluggish sales are counting on Santa to bring them out of the doldrums.

From the grain docks at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to high-technology factories in San Diego,

All that talk about a slowing economy has become a background murmur as economic analysts and financ

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

Britain's Port of Southampton is missing out on booming container traffic through ports in southeast

Robert Peavy, counsel and the de facto administrator of the new Transpacific Discussion Agreement, h

The outlook for an agreement among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries dimm