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Nine major Japanese electric power utilities have moved to boost materials imports from Asian countr

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Threatened loss of a reserved coastal shipping market for Brazilian-owned vessels is forcing federal

MOTOR VESSEL CAPSIZES IN INDIA; 100 PERISHNEW DELHI, India - At least 100 people wer

STATE FARM INSURANCE COS. (Bloomington, Ill.) - James Q. Wilson was elected to succeed Charles O. Ga

The world may have cheered when Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in the spring o

U.K. producer output prices were up 0.2 percent in August from July, after rising 0.2 percent in Jul

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. announced Monday it will spend $54 million to acquire the U.S. a

Malaysia's trouble-plagued insurance sector may be restructured into a two- tier system to weed out

The protection and indemnity clubs that mutually insure shipowners against liability claims look set

Shipping interests beware: Marine insurers are ready to get tough on underwriting. After sev

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Commerce Secretary Ron Brown announced last week that the Conference Board will take over the monthl

Numerous initiatives by shipping lines to share equipment such as containers are being revived just

Maritime insurance companies are attacking methods that the federal government uses in determining n

Founded in 1874, the International Union of Marine Insurers is one of the oldest international organ

German manufacturing orders rose a seasonally and price-adjusted 4.0 percent in July from June mainl

Marine-cargo underwriters are making more use of surveyors to ensure that goods are properly loaded

Efforts by insurers, classification societies and governments to lift ship standards may be polarizi

Share prices for industrial companies surged at the end of last week, helping The Journal of Commerc

They thought there was a fortune to be made. With no insurance company willing and able to provide f

Container sharing among ocean carriers is emerging as the next major phase of consolidation in the l

The head of American Airlines Inc. says Northwest Airlines is wasting its time complaining about com

In a major policy change, the ocean carrier conference on the outbound trans- Pacific trade agreed t

AVIALL DISTRIBUTION SERVICES (Dallas) - David J. Yannarella was named vice president of new ventures

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Nuclear weapons simulations will be the primary task of the world's fastest computer - capable of 1.

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Sept. 15, '94 - Sept. 11, '95 (a graph)

The Delhi Automotive Systems unit of General Motors Corp. plans to invest $50 million in a wholly ow

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Monday, Sept. 11, 1995 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Networked Economy Conference. Sept. 12-13. Third annual conference. Washington, D.C. Contact: Barbar

V2500 ENGINE TO POWER EVA'S NEW PLANEGLASTONBURY, Conn. - EVA Airways Corp. has sele

A few key House Democrats continued Monday to demand full funding of a worker-relief program as thei

Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, R-N.Y., introduced legislation Monday to impose trade sanctions on foreign

The U.S. dollar was unchanged Monday in dull trading. Without central-bank buying, the dolla

The International Trade Data Users Group has incorporated and is forming specific committees to deve

SOUTH AMERICAN WEED TAKES ROOT IN FLORIDAORLANDO, Fla. - A thorny, noxious weed that

China, concerned that its telecommunications sector has become a very attractive market, is drafting