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SOVIETS ARE INVESTING IN CUBAN PETROCHEMICALSA Soviet official was quoted Thursday as saying

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

1246 (Aug. 19, 1988) Previous day - 1240 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange i

An Italian company pledged to spend $16 million on a coal terminal and rail link to help smooth the

The Tennessee Valley Authority said it awarded three contracts totaling 11,500 tons for spot coal to

Reagan administration and public witnesses will appear before a House subcommittee Sept. 22 to discu

Batus Inc. has extended to Aug. 25 its hostile $63-a-share offer to buy Farmers Insurance Group Inc.

YAMAICHI RECEIVES CBT CLEARING STATUSYamaichi International (America) Inc. has been approved

COLOMBIA DEFENDS GLOBAL COFFEE PACTBOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia, faced with its biggest coffe

Cattle prices are likely to reach record highs by next spring, pushing retail beef prices up before

IRAQ IS TRYING TO BUY IDLE TEXAS STEEL MILLIraq wants to buy an idled steel works in Texas f

Small agriculture operators who want a piece of the action in farm exports can get help from the Agr

A George Bush presidency would bring little new in the areas of trade and international transportati

HE'S PROMOTED, SHE PLANS TO LEAVE, in one of the ironies surrounding the change in leadership at the

CONTINENTAL TO LAY OFF UP TO 1,000 EMPLOYEESHOUSTON - Continental Airlines will lay off up t

Fri., Aug. 19, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

Warsaw's Sunday flea market has gone up-market and entered the world of personal computers, video an

Republican presidential nominee George Bush offered a litany of bold, sweeping economic promises in

Any experienced shopkeeper will tell you that it can be tough to revamp a mom-and-pop business to me

The value of U.S. chemical imports leaped by 30 percent in June to $1.79 billion while waterborne im

Executives of several stevedoring companies and the International Longshoremen's Association failed

Amax Coal Co. said it is closing its Harco mine near Harrisburg, Ill., at the end of the month.<

MORE TIME ALLOWED FOR TERMINALS PROBEThe Federal Maritime Commission will give its investiga

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GOVERNMENT TO STUDY NJ MONORAIL PROPOSALThe Urban Mass Transportation Administration has giv

Mayor Tom Bradley, saying the smog-filled summer season is the worst time to make local utilities bu

A drunken man stole a steamroller and led deputies on a slow-speed chase during which the road flatt

A single-engine plane carrying 400 live lobsters made an emergency landing Friday in a park outside

The U.S. Customs Service has proposed to change the procedure used to inform certain vessels and air

Airport parcel services would be exempted from proposed per-trip fees that could boost charges for o

Seven finalists for a job as executive director of the Port of Seattle will begin interviews with po

Arnold Masters, a well-known figure in the Canadian maritime industry, will take early retirement at

Smart" cards will be used at five of the nation's 10 largest money center banks by year end, but fo

IRISH PRIME MINISTER PLANS VISIT TO JAPANDUBLIN, Ireland - Prime Minister Charles Haughey wi

The heat is on for China to develop its own computer industry as Beijing officials begin prosecution

Bilspedition AB, a Swedish freight forwarding group, plans to provide a fully integrated transportat

Ocean sea and inland water carrier interests heaped more objections on the Reagan administration's p

Responding to market pressures, TransSettlements Inc., an electronic communications network, is cutt

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Members of Local 10 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union began a 31-hour wor