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Four more ocean carrier rate-making conferences want to turn to loyalty contracts binding shippers t

Economic growth in Taiwan is likely to slow to single figures and itsmushrooming trade surplus to sh

USDA Forecasts Record Coffee HarvestThe world coffee crop production estimate for 1987-88 ha

You just can't keep a budding capitalist down, not even, it seems, with the threat of a firing squad

Japanese imports from the United States rose 40.1 percent in November over the same month last year,

Minet Holdings PLC, a London-based insurance holding company and the eighth largest insurance broker

The Senate voted Thursday to clear the way for consideration of federal budget deficit-reduction leg

A federal judge Thursday ordered the sale of two of United States Lines' idled Econships in Seattle

Exxon Chemical Co. is expanding production of neo acids by 50 percent at its Baton Rouge, La., chemi

Brazil hopes to continue exporting surplus gasoline to the United States, unless the United States d

Fortunately, for U.S. domestic airlines, long distances between America's cities and the need for fa

Iraq said its warplanes attacked a ship off Iran on Thursday, and Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Unit

Atlantic Container Line carried this Canadian Balsam from Nova Scotia by sea and land to its ceremon

Government bungling allowed the Soviet Union to purchase a nearly complete plant to make high-techno

Proposals to unify the capital adequacy ratios of banks operating internationally would extend and d

Federal Railroad Administrator John H. Riley revealed that he intends to fine Springfield Terminal R

Big Savings Projected From Utility MergerPORTLAND, Ore. - PacifiCorp projects that its pendi

Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh said Thursday he doubted that any accord by OPEC ministers

For its current advertising campaign, Singapore Airlines relies on beautiful girls and prospects in

Railroads are using sweet words and financial sugar to encourage their customers to use electronic d

Gorbachev Seen Positive on Grain TradeSoviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said the U.S.-U.S.S.R.

The record U.S. trade deficit in October is likely to be followed by several more disappointing mont

New York's major public employee labor unions filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to halt the average 6

Canada Puts Emphasis On Rebuilding Its NavyCanada has no immediate plans to strengthen its m

BP Says Kuwaiti Stake Now Stands at 11.52 percentBritish Petroleum Co. PLC said Thursday tha

Mobil to Explore On Pueblo ReservationALBUQUERQUE, N.M., - Mobil Oil Corp. reached an agreem

Grain and general cargo movement has been paralyzed at Argentina's Parana River and Atlantic Ocean p

Shipments of toxic rocket fuel to Vandenberg Air Force Base have been halted temporarily following c

The New Orleans Dock Board, which has bandaged its financial wounds, approved a $5.6 million project

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

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

December is a hot month for barge and railroad companies competing for contracts to haul coal next y

Legislative efforts to alter the Staggers Rail Act: . . . We will continue to vigorously opp

An auto insurance reform bill under debate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives may impact

Getty Petroleum Corp. reported net income for the third quarter ended Oct. 31 rose to $4.8 million,

The Blue Chip Economic Indicators latest monthly survey said a depression is unlikely for the next f

An article in the On the Move column on Dec. 7 about the resignation of Maryland Insurance Commissio

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

The smoothness with which a major slab of the earth's outer shell moves under another slab may deter

Analysts and economists said the dollar could be bottoming out in the wake of the stunningly bad Oct