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A banner year for key sectors of the petrochemical industry in 1988 has been projected by Robert B.

ALLIED SIGNAL INC. (Morris Township, N.J.) - Edward L. Hennessy Jr., chairman and CEO of Allied-Sign

Airgas Inc., a distributor of industrial gases and related products, has signed a definitive agreem

Some 11,000 tugs, barges and other river vessels are expected to remain idle until at least next wee

The recently confirmed raw sugar sale to a British trader for China on behalf of Cuba's account was

AVIATION The Postal Rate Commission rejected Express Mail volume discounts. 2BAir Canada is

Italian truck drivers soon can worry less about finding freight to fill their rigs for the trip back

A two-month-old bagging operation ceased work last week, putting a damper on the Port of New Orleans

Zimbabwe is encountering difficult headway in its efforts to cut its dependence on South African por

Panama's internal turmoil seems to be affecting the Panama Canal more directly but without interrupt

The U.S. Postal Service effort to make its domestic overnight Express Mail service more competitive

Cyprus Minerals Co. has signed a letter of intent to sell its calcium carbonate facilities in Alabam

Shippers and the Justice Department lead the opposition to letting ocean carrier conferences limit m

Duramed Intends To Purchase InvamedDuramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cincinnati and Invamed Inc.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution - the surface leg of Britain's maritime lifesaving triad - i

The Connecticut Insurance Department will hold a public hearing March 30 on an Insurance Services Of

Bank of Credit and Commerce of Luxembourg opened a branch office in Taipei. David H. Rizvi,

New Zealand Emerging As US Wheat BuyerWASHINGTON - New Zealand is making inquiries into the

One of the biggest exports from California's ports is scrap metal that issent to Japan and r

Records for business negotiated and buyers attending were set at last week's second jewelry fair, or

A protectionist U.S. trade policy is turning the Caribbean Basin from an outlook of growth and hope

March 28, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Vons Grocery Co. has introduced photodegradable plastic grocery sacks at its San Diego-area stores t

A U.S. District Court judge in Texas is continuing to hear testimony in the suit Delta Airlines and

Mexico will extend its freeze on government-controlled prices and the peso's exchange rate through t

Predicting platinum price trends is proving quixotic, some metal analysts suggest to their firm's cl

The dramatic rally in nickel prices will persist for at least a month on extremely supply tightness

A British company has developed an Alpha monitor to check the hands of glove- box operators.

Yeutter to Investigate Korean Beef PolicyU.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter said Mond

Evergreen Marine Corp., the publicly traded arm of the Evergreen Group, reported that its earnings m

The average retail price of gasoline fell again during the past two weeks, although prices were stil

Taiwan Power Corp.'s test burn of coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin will probably be conducted

Industrial plant transfer points for chemical materials have a great potential for accidents and sho

The New Orleans Steamship Association, which took a battering last year in the Louisiana Legislature

ASSOCIATED AVIATION UNDERWRITERS (Short Hills, N.J.) - Kevin Hilliard, Carl A. Pfeiffer and Leonidas

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

-A-B-C-D- ABF Freight System Inc. 8BAdvent Euroventures 13BAdvent First L.P. 1

The nation's highest court is allowing a suit against the insurance arm of Export-Import Bank in a c

Philip F. Anschutz and his Anschutz Corp. asked the Interstate CommerceCommission to reject

The Interstate Commerce Commission will allow most trucking industry freight rates to rise by about