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Essential oil and aroma chemical markets - like citrus oils - are moving up while others are moving

Oil prices appear to be headed for a fall to less than $10 a barrel by the first quarter of 1989.

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index of 18 sensitive commodities declined slightly last we

The European Community will sound out Japan Tuesday on a bilateral agreement to control its car expo

One of Hong Kong's main maritime operators, Wah Kwong & Co. (H.K.) Ltd., is providingtechnical assis

The Central Electricity Generating Board, Britain's national utility, is asking U.S. coal production

National Starch & Chemical Corp.'s Resins & Specialty Chemicals division announced a 2-cent-a-pound

The fiscal 1990 budget President Ronald Reagan will submit to Congress Jan. 9 will contain his own p

Last week's elections moved the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri a step closer to finding a homeport.

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Leading maritime industry executives are considering how to recruit more personnel back into the pro

It is becoming increasingly obvious to the Southern California transportation community that polluti

Heavy truck sales took on landslide proportions in October as deliveries hit their highest monthly l

U.S. futures regulators have asked the Chicago Mercantile Exchange if its proposed automated, after-

PROHIBITION OF YELLOWFIN TUNA FROM ECUADOR, PANAMA, VANUATU AND VENEZUELA. Effective Oct. 16, 1988,

Agreement may be reached in at least three areas when the world's trade ministers meet in Montreal f

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

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Currency traders and economists predict the dollar will continue to weaken in the aftermath of U.S.

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

LONDON SUBWAY CHIEF TENDERS RESIGNATIONThe head of London's subway system resigned last week

Japan Air Lines net profit for the six months ended Sept. 30 was $132 million, 25.9 percent up on 19

Pension funds are beginning to invest in the futures markets, a development that could propel the fu

The clouds seem darker, the wind more fierce and the waves more threatening these days to those who

Statewide home heating oil prices reacted to the onset of cold weather in late October by registerin

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Chrysler Corp. Thursday named Gerald Greenwald as vice chairman of the No. 3 automaker, establishing

Britain's big general lines insurance companies are drawing up strategies for dealing with Propositi

OECD LIKELY TO RAISE 1988 GROWTH FORECASTSThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Deve

Douglas F. Wong began work as a newly appointed port commissioner for the Port of San Francisco last

A new era for the Marine Index Bureau opened Nov. 9 with the appointment of a new president and the

With its first foreign field office now open in Caracas, Venezuela, the Port of Houston Authority be

Airbus Industrie added two new Super Guppies to its existing four-craft fleet that links the multina

Further large-scale reclamation work on Hong Kong's harbor runs the risk of fouling its vital shippi

As part of a major restructuring effort, CSX/Sea-Land Intermodal Inc. will end direct intermodal tra

Maine Gov. John R. McKernan Jr. has asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to prepare contingency

Frank B. Hall & Co. Inc. reported a net loss from continuing operations for the third quarter ending

CALIF. VOTERS REVIVE STATE'S OSHA PROGRAMVoters told Gov. George Deukmejian they want Califo

For the week ended Oct. 29, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

SOUTH KOREA PREDICTS SMALLER TRADE SURPLUSSEOUL, South Korea - The Trade and Industry Minist