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Supplies of distillate oil increased and gasoline inventories decreased last week, according to the

A group of ocean carriers went ahead with a threatened freight rate surcharge on containers loaded a

Representatives of the International Longshoremen's Association and Montreal port employers are sche

Fresh apples Quantity: 50,000 mt. Quality: 'Golden' variety - caliber 70/75. Packaging: cart

The Japanese, who already possess the world's biggest trade surplus, also are glutted with economic

BASKIN-ROBBINS PLANS FIRST STORE IN USSRGLENDALE, Calif. - Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Co. has

Central Gulf Lines Inc. wants the secretary of transportation to reject a ship-chartering and revenu

Ship lines will be allowed to expand their operations in Piraeus, Greece's principal port, under new

Wells Fargo & Co. said Wednesday it has completed its purchase of Barclays Bank of California for $1

With more than 1 million Japanese tourists now visiting Hawaii each year, Bank of Hawaii is moving t

The danger of police intervention sparking violence in a Hyundai strike receded abruptly Wednesday w

Help-wanted advertising, an indication of the demand for labor, held steady in April, the Conference

Orders to U.S. factories rose a strong 1.2 percent in April, the second substantial monthly increase

Temperatures soaring above the 90-degree mark brought about a record May peak electricity demand fro

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The Federal Aviation Administration today revealed the formation of a special team to assist in the

Understanding Telecommunications Technologies for Non-Engineers, two-day seminar, June 9-10. One Was

A new Occidental Chemical Corp. phosphorous recovery process increased by 10percent total production

The polyethylene market was already tight, but now after Shell Chemical Co.'s Narco, La., explosion,

Ten ocean carriers and 10 ports handle 75 percent of North America's container traffic. Thos

Trucking industry negotiators denied a request by the Teamsters union to reopen talks on their recen

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

AVIATION Delegates to the FAA's meeting on aging jet transports lowered expections of substa

New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Kenneth D. Merin will begin hearings Thursday on the 14.7 percent

The Australian Mutual Provident Society, the country's largest life insurer, is merging with one of

A Marine Corps general said Wednesday that Iran is about to finish building a new Silkworm missile s

The European Community angrily denounced Wednesday the United States' decision to slash the set-asid

High duties tend to put a lid on East German exports to the United States, but patient importers can

Canadians will have trouble competing with U.S. industries once the Free Trade Agreement between the

Construction spending edged up a slight 0.1 percent in April as a big increase in investment for new

W. GERMAN MINE BLAST KILLS 16, TRAPS OTHERSBORKEN, West Germany - An explosion ripped throug

Parts of a federal proposal to regulate competitive bidding for electric generating capacity are unn

A subsidiary of Southern California Edison Co. is bidding to acquire the Great Plains coal gasificat

ENERGY COUNCIL TO HONOR PRESIDENT OF BELCHERFrederick W. Taubert, president of Belcher New Y

Australia's waterfront industries have been described as the garbage on the country's doorstep.<

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

American Mutual Insurance Cos. of Wakefield, Mass. has stopped writing new business in Connecticut a

The international oil market will become unstable in the 1990s, and the Takeshita administration sho

The most recent 300,000-metric-ton raw sugar swap between the Soviet Union and at least one major in