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After moving 1.3 million cubic yards of earth, the Port of Portland is looking for a developer for a

Trade ministers from the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Community will gather in this

Members of the troubled Asbestos Claims Facility voted last week to disband the facility and replace

Matson Navigation Co.'s new 387-foot container barge Islander slides into Neches River from launchin

U.S. imports of sugar-containing products in 46 tariff categories more than doubled to about 666,400

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PACIFIC ENGINEERING TO REBUILD FUEL PLANTHENDERSON, Nev. - American Pacific Corp.'s Pacific

CON ED CUSTOMERS SET POWER DEMAND RECORDConsolidated Edison Co. said electricity demand in i

U.S. taxpayers are bankrolling the world's newest ship registry, a Marshall Islands flag-of-convenie

Truckers support the basic concept of a plan by a coalition of shippers and transportation brokers t

CHINESE OFFICIAL SAYS NO DEVALUATION LIKELYBEIJING - China has no plans to devalue the yuan

AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK (Scottsdale, Ariz.) - Keith D. Maio was named senior vice president and senio

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

Japanese consumer activists say their government is reluctant to strictly enforce auto industry safe

The soaring cost of medical malpractice insurance is cutting into the availability of maternal healt

The tiny Delaware Otsego Corp. suddenly has found itself with a lot of influential friends, as the n

The Securities and Exchange Commission is working with some Canadian provinces on an experimental pl

Another piece of the past is about to die. Soon the rhythmic clatter of the telex machine wi

Lessors of railroad flatcars are cautiously optimistic about prospects for flatcar leasing over the

June 21, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

Wallenius Lines, the Swedish car and truck carrier, plans to transfer one of its vessels to the U.S.

Each arm of its six red crosses is 27 feet across, it has a screw that weighs 53 tons and if you unr

Shipping conference lines on the North Atlantic may cut rates for wine and spirits from France and W

ICC CHOOSES SUCCESSOR TO DELAWARE & HUDSONThe Interstate Commerce Commission Tuesday afterno

North American potash production in April rose 10.4 percent to 965,742 tonsfrom 874,929 tons

The benzene market has been up and down for the last two weeks following months of little volatility

Dow U.S.A. Co. and Exxon Chemical Co. have signed a letter of intent for the formation of an equally

FOUR OIL COMPANIES REDUCE WTI POSTINGSA number of major refiners have reduced their posted b

One of Hong Kong's largest shipping companies, Orient Overseas (Holdings) Ltd., is disposing of its

Union Carbide Corp., which has been unable to settle litigation with the Indian government over the

International Business Machines Corp. is mounting a new assault on the minicomputer market.

BUILDERS TRANSPORT INC. (Camden, S.C.) - Charles C. Gay, Jr. was elected president and chief operati

Japanese Trade Minister Hajime Tamura delivered Tuesday what appeared to be his country's strongest

A new management survey by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers revealed that most managers of Jap

With cargo volume in Southeast Asia growing rapidly, Sea-Land Service Inc. will double its calls at

The European Community Commission is cracking down hard on governments that are trying to derail it

Leaders of the seven major industrial democracies wrapped up their economic summit Tuesday by callin

As much as 75 percent of the 1988 U.S. spring wheat crop could be lost to drought in Minnesota and o

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is betting its proposed electronic futures trading system will be so

Asia's principal oil exporter, Indonesia, is coming under renewed pressure for price cuts only days