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Every month, more than a dozen containerships dock at Long Beach, Calif., altogether bearing over 3

This index alphabetically lists all companies and other operating organizations such as ports mentio

A proposal to use commodity prices to help guide national economic policies may be endorsed this wee

Commerce Secretary William Verity begins three days of talks with Soviet officials today saying he h

Texaco Inc. will withhold $1 million in income taxes due the government of Panama on April 15, a spo

Two more Democratic presidential candidates have written Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Ben

Thailand's traditionally impoverished northeast region enjoyed an economic rebound last year due mai

A certificate on the office wall of Michael Guerin, deputy general manager of Aer Rianta, the Irish

The Jamaican government has reduced a controversial tax paid on bauxite mining and refining by a U.S

Small- and medium-sized importers signed a service contract with a major inbound shipping conference

Solvay et Cie., Belgium's largest chemical group, said Monday it has sold a plastics processing unit

The Society of the Plastics Industry has revealed the voluntary identification system devised to fac

It's been 10 years since James A. Ryder retired from the company he founded, one that still bears hi

Express Systems Forms Truck UnitOAKLAND - Express Systems Intermodal has formed a subsidiary

The race to build giant coal-fired power plants in Turkey has heated up after the Turkish government

The public will be saved tens of millions of dollars a year by a special interdepartmental task forc

American General Unit Sets Acquisition PlansManufacturers Hanover Corp. Monday announced tha

A report commissioned by South Africa's mining industry says bans against South African coal have co

A supplier of fuel oil and other petroleum products to large cruise ships and other vessels recently

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Officials from Ohio and the Hubei provincial government signed an eight-point science and technology

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American Airlines President Robert Crandall wants Washington to consider trading cabotage and code s

BA Complains About Boeing Aircraft FaultsBritish Airways PLC confirmed Monday that it has co

China's foreign exchange revenues from international sales of gold coins could be hurt by problems f

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

Indonesia Expects Japan to Buy More OilJAKARTA, Indonesia - The demand for oil from Japanese

Customs inspectors knew without opening a container unloaded in Miami that there was something other

The Wisconsin Insurance Department last week became the third insurance department to deny the appli

Primerica Corp. said Monday that is was selling some of its life and health insurance subsidiaries a

A British company has developed a pressurized vacuum press for honeycomb bonding and composite work

Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin charged that U.S. business has failed to make labor a partner in effo

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan posted a record $331 million underwriting loss in 1987, Chair

Research ministers of the European Community on Monday agreed to spend about $2 billion over the nex

AIR CARGO Singapore is choking on a mountain of air cargo as demand outstrips terminal capac

1571.5 (April 11, 1988) Previous day - 1584.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Excha

Harry L. Schultz was elected president-chief executive officer and a member of the board of director

A little-noticed provision of the proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement may ignite another round

Rep. John Bryant, D-Texas, has it backwards. We don't need less foreign investment in the United St

US Urges Taiwan, S. Korea to RevalueWASHINGTON - Taiwan and South Korea need to make further