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An unconfirmed report on the Baltic Exchange in London that a charterer is paying $66.50 a metric to

French shipowners have raised an alarm that rising crew costs threaten the competitiveness of the na

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A whole new industry of hazardous-waste specialists is growing up to meet the nee

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Seventy-four San Francisco Bay Area companies have spent more than $175 million since 1982 to clean

In a darkened classroom, a slide projector beams a photograph of a bend in the St. Marys River wher

Fujitsu Ltd. will pay International Business Machines Corp. hundreds of millions of dollars for the

In the last filing before the state Supreme Court decides what to do with lawsuits filed over Propos

The board of directors of Kansas City Life Insurance Co. Tuesday received a letter stating that Torc

The story headlined Pacific Ship Lines To Trim Capacity, which appeared on Page 1A in The Journal of

A new partnership between shipowners and creditors is the key to sane and successful financing in co

Calls by European leaders for an early meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations underscore t

P&O EXPANDS DUTIES OF LILLY SHIPPINGWAYNE, N.J. - P&O Containers Ltd., the parent company of

Van der Giessen de Noord, the Netherlands' leading shipbuilder, has booked contracts for nine mercha

Dec. 3 will be a milestone in the relatively short 10-year life of Hanjin Container Lines Ltd.

The European Community is in a belligerent mood as it approaches next week's midterm review of negot

Yugoslavia is preparing new laws to allow foreign businesses to be set up in free trade zones as par

ROHM & HAAS CO. RAISES MODIFIERSRohm & Haas Co. announced price increases for vinyl and<

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HANLIN UNIT HIKES METHYLENE CHLORIDEEDISON, N.J. - Hanlin Group Inc.'s LCP Chemicals divisio

Britain called Monday for an 85 percent reduction in chloroflurocarbons that destroy the world's ozo

France's agricultural trade balance should reach a record-high surplus of 39.5 billion francs ($6.68

A large market for U.S. textile manufacturers is lying virtually untapped in Asia despite a lower do

Burlington Northern Inc.'s agreement to settle a landmark conspiracy case brought by an erstwhile co

A senior Indonesian official Tuesday lambasted Japan, his country's main economic partner, for what

Eight of the nine companies competing to build natural gas pipelines to the Northeast tentatively ag

LILCO-NEW YORK DEAL APPEARS TO BE DEADALBANY, N.Y. - It appeared Tuesday that the deal betwe

Mexico is going to next week's multilateral trade negotiations in Montreal as a country that has lar

President Reagan's decision that national security concerns do not warrant import curbs on anti-fric

Consumer prices in the European Community rose 0.5 percent in October, bringing the 12-month increas

The economy of Malaysia is likely to show growth of 8.2 percent this year, a new forecast said Tuesd

Some 1,000 soldiers headed for Paris Tuesday in a surprise response to a transport strike that has c

BUNDESBANK CHIEF SAYS DOLLAR MAY STABILIZEFRANKFURT, West Germany - A further fall in the va

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

By purchasing a major stake in a modest-size Japanese truck company, Federal Express Corp. has taken

FIRM AUTHORIZED AS US SPRINT PARTNERUnited Telecommunications Inc. has received authorizatio

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JAPANESE FIRM PLANS AUSTRALIAN BEEF VENTURESYDNEY, Australia - A leading Japanese trade hous

CONSTRUCTION SITE BLAST KILLS SIX FIREFIGHTERSKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two ammonium nitrate explos

The U.S. dollar weakened against the Japanese yen Tuesday, but was little changed against the deutsc