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$1 BILLION BA ORDER TARGETS BOEING, GELONDON - British Airways is ordering more than 35 new

NOT INFREQUENTLY MY ACTIVITIES during the day are punctuated by a midday or after-hours kaffee-klats

Electronic data interchange's time has come. That's what Seiko Time Corp., Mahwah, N.J., bel

EDI is too important to be left to the techies, a leading expert warns. When it comes to tur

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. wants to cut its basic interstate long- distance rates by an aver

Sharp Offers Laptop With Graphics DisplayNEW YORK - Sharp Electronics Corp. has introduced a

Brent A. Stienecker, president of the Pacific Division of Crowley Maritime Corp., is pretty happy he

The president of the State University of New York Maritime College charged in public hearings that t

When Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Washington representative goes into a congressman's office to urge som

Oil field equipment, project cargo and agricultural relief cargo are the major items moving on a new

SHIPBUILDERS APPROVE MERGER WITH AFFILIATEDelegates representing 13,000 members of the Indus

ABF FREIGHT OPENS NJ, IND. TERMINALSFORT SMITH, Ark. - ABF Freight Systems Inc. recently ope

Troubled Guilford Transportation Industries Inc. has spurned a purchase offer by two other New Engla

The truck was somewhere between Denver and Los Angeles. In the back was a load of temperature-sensit

Buy a square yard of France for about $1.50 and drive the railroad bureaucrats crazy while lending a

CONSOLIDATED REPORTS INCOME OF $32.3 MILLIONMENLO PARK, Calif. - Consolidated Freightways In

Oct. 18, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange*PrevClose High Low V

A lot can go wrong in the tricky business of ship chartering. Contracts can dissolve into no

1315 (Oct. 18, 1988) Previous day - 1314 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange i

Bath Iron Works will pay only a fraction of a record $4.2 million fine for alleged health and safety

The U.S. dollar closed little changed Tuesday after an erratic session. A late rebound trimm

Prices for Chilean and Venezuelan paper remain near their lows, pressured by domestic political unre

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

France raised interest rates on Tuesday to defend the franc, which was coming under pressure because

Price-to-earnings ratios of over 50 should not dissuade investors from the Japanese stock market.

Hong Kong's new stock exchange council Tuesday named its chairman and chief executive, ending a near

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

GIBRALTAR SAVINGS (Simi Valley, Calif.) - Eldon R. Richardson was named assistant chief lending offi

Tue., Oct. 18, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

This harbor faces a dilemma: its ship channels will choke up if new dump sites aren't found for its

SWISS MINISTER SAYS G-7 LACKS COHESIONLUGANO, Switzerland - Swiss Economy Minister Jean-Pasc

Citicorp said Tuesday its third quarter earnings fell to $394 million, or $1.13 a share, from $528 m

Shipping industry analysts say they believe Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. will be sold, probably to E

A $2 billion harbor and navigation project bill and a package of ocean pollution control measures ha

The federal Food and Drug Administration allowed use of a new anesthetic, Versed, at dangerously hig

AMERICAN CYANAMID POSTS RISE IN EARNINGSWAYNE, N.J. - American Cyanamid Co.'s third quarter

Ciba-Geigy Corp., a Swiss-based manufacturer of dyes and epoxy resins, is under heavy public critici

OCCIDENTAL MUST SELL TENNECO, JUDGE RULESOccidental Petroleum Co. was ordered Tuesday to sel

If ever there was a modern-day David and Goliath story, it surely is Soviet President Mikhail Gorbac

AMERISURE COS. (Detroit) - Susan Gailey Vincent was named assistant vice president and assistant gen