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George Combs is one of a few lucky Coast Guard crewmembers who get paid to be a couch potato - at le

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America named Frederick Chan, a vice president, as its new Beijing represent

Shanghai announced Wednesday it will accept bids next year for 20- to 50-year leases on selected plo

Think Japanese real estate investment in the United States and what comes to mind? Skyscrapers in Ma

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE is pleased that the Mayor of New York, the honorable Edward I. Koch, issued

The Journal of Commerce today publishes the first of a two-part special report on what continued wea

The economy is not necessarily heading into stormy weather, analysts say, but dark clouds of uncerta

The two weeks before Christmas, when the oil markets swung by more than $3 a barrel, were a foretast

Sea-Land Service Inc. will begin eastbound direct service with a 12-day transit time from Taiwan's p

Low oil prices are supposed to boost gross national product and trim inflation but some economists a

On the final working day of 1987, the president of Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. predicted higher e

The Federal Aviation Administration plans major inspections of nine scheduled airlines this fiscal y

The absence of any clear reference to interest rates in the latest statement by the Group of Seven m

The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is expected to start operating by next spr

Federal Express Corp. has began supplying basic billing information to its customers in standardized

The U.S. dollar is likely to fall early in the new year based on a lack of confidence in the stateme

The National Transportation Safety Board staff wants the board to schedule a field hearing into the

EC Unit to Investigate BCal Takeover by BABRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community will in

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

More air carriers would participate in the Civil Reserve Aircraft Fleet program if the government wo

Brazilian Financing Is Fully SubscribedNEW YORK - A $3 billion interim financing for Brazil

Wed., Dec. 23, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

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The name of Miguel A. Rossy, senior vice president and general manager of Crowley Caribbean Transpor

Rail shippers in New England are reaching out, with little apparent success, to state and federal au

New England shippers who rely on railroad transportation again find themselves hostages to the warfa

The push for trade protectionism that gathered steam in the United States in mid-1987 has faltered.

ICC Refuses to Give Data on BN Line SaleThe Interstate Commerce Commission refused to provid

Penn State Professor Leaves Logistics GroupLOUISVILLE, Ky. - Dr. Joseph L. Cavinato, associa

U.S. sugar producers and processors praised congressional action providing for the importation of up

Malaysia Expects Dip In Palm Oil ProductionMalaysia's crude palm oil output in December will

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The dispute over continuing the antitrust exemption for the Trailer Train Co. has led to a flurry of

The International Cocoa Organization may hold an emergency meeting starting Jan. 11, 1988, to discus

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Most companies will chalk up healthy profit gains next year despite the recent stock market crash, s

Officials of the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. and of the three major potential buyers of the Sout

Cancellation of three-fourths of 1988 construction projects and closing of some post offices for at

A second major forecasting firm has lowered its estimates for heavy-truck sales next year in the wak