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CARBIDE INCREASES SURFACTANT PRICESDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. announced an increas

Lithium Corp. of America announced list price increases of 3 percent to 6 percent for several produc

Hyundai Petrochemical Co. tapped Houston-based M.W. Kellogg Co. to design and engineer a 350,000-met

China has significantly increased its botanical drug production capacity over the past few years, ac

FMC Corp. said that it purchased the sodium bicarbonate business from the Riverside Products Corp. o

25 COUNTRIES SIGN NITROGEN OXIDE PACTSOFIA, Bulgaria - Twenty-five countries, including the

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Saudi Arabia has offered steep new volume-linked crude oil price discounts to Exxon Corp. on conditi

Nov. 2, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Since the price of oil began falling again, the Mexican government has announced $250 million in bud

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Martha Hesse said she will continue to speed deregulat

Mexico's powerful oil workers' union has accused the former director of Petroleos Mexicanos of multi

The relationship between North Sea Brent crude and Middle Eastern crudes was misstated in the Nov. 1

DETROIT EDISON REPORTS SEPT. SALES RECORDDetroit Edison Co. said September electricity sales

Supplies of gasoline decreased and distillate stocks increased for the week ended Oct. 28, according

SUN COMPLETES PURCHASE OF ATLANTIC PETROLEUMSun Co. of Philadelphia said it closed Tuesday o

US West Financial Services Inc. will reduce its posture in airplane leasing, the company said.

One week after the controversial seizure of an Eastern Airlines jetliner carrying cocaine from Colom

The British Post Office announced Wednesday its appointment of Securicor Group PLC as the first lice

Australian-based Ansett Transport Industries has taken over local cargo carrier Transcorp Airways ju

CF INCREASES CAPACITY TO TWO FLORIDA CITIESPALO ALTO, Calif. - CF AirFreight announced incre

Moving railroad cars is no longer enough for Union Pacific Corp. The company is getting into the bus

NORTH AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS see no need for Edifact, the electronic data interchange standard endor

One of the surest ways to attract attention with a mail-order catalog selling personal computer prod

The Maritime Administration announced the completion of a research report on development of a voice

SUPERCOMPUTERS RECORD FASTEST SPEEDS EVERCHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Several supercomputer programs ha

The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to allow rates on service contracts to be adjusted but o

The Federal Maritime Commission has revoked the licenses of two ocean freight forwarders for failing

TRAFFIC AT ROTTERDAM FLAT IN THIRD QUARTERROTTERDAM, Netherlands - Rotterdam, the world's la

The Baltic Exchange in London this week is altering the composition of the Baltic Freight Index, a w

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1390 (Nov. 2, 1988) Previous day - 1378 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Random drug testing of the nation's truck drivers is expensive and may even be unworkable, said labo

DREDGING WILL CLOSE MISSISSIPPI DURING DAYKANSAS CITY, Mo. - Dredging of a rock shelf at Gra

Lary R. Scott is president and chief executive officer of ConsolidatedFreightways Inc. In a

Containerization & Intermodal Institute, conference and shippers dialogue, Nov. 3-4. Cavalier Oceanf

Huge losses by American Freight System Inc. and Transcon Lines Inc. prevented the nation's largest t

The Port of Oakland said it was slightly ahead of budget projections for the first quarter of fiscal

The plan to reorganize the group of companies clustered around the bankrupt United States Lines Inc.