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BELGIUM'S CMB REPORTS 'SHARPLY HIGHER' PROFITANTWERP, Belgium - CMB, Belgium's biggest shipp

The government has approved a three-year plan to promote Japanese investment with the aim of attract

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Feb. 8, 1995 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.

A division of a California state commission set up to prevent oil spills in the wake of the Exxon Va

Equipment lessors and container logistics companies say the industry is in the midst of a serious sh

Advance Container Lines Ltd., an affiliate of Singapore's Pacific International Lines Ltd., restruct

The 1995 shipping season on the St. Lawrence Seaway will open March 24, one of the earliest opening

WTO MARITIME TALKS GET UNDER WAY TODAYGENEVA - Senior officials from 40 maritime nat

The Clinton administration is weighing a move to upgrade Romania's most- favored-nation trade status

About 500,000 coal miners, 80 percent of the Russian industry's work force, staged a one-day strike

A proposed massive restructuring of the St. Lawrence Seaway won't fly, but privatization of at least

The Maritime Administration rejected a loan guarantee request from a Swiss company to finance the la

"From 'unassailable' politics and economics to 'earthquake-proof' buildings, the Japanese have been

The owners of Santa Fe Pacific Corp. voted overwhelmingly Tuesday evening to merge their railroad wi

Insurance industry bodies said they expect damage claims from last month's earthquake in Japan to ex

Why didn't the Federal Reserve help steady the Mexican peso during theDecember crisis? Multi

Mexico will maintain current oil production levels and not open exploration and production activitie

In response to an Interstate Commerce Commission analysis of its regulatory responsibilities release

U.S. inventories of distillate fuel oil fell by 1.1 million barrels during the week ended Feb. 3, co

IG METALL TALKS END WITHOUT SALARY OFFERFRANKFURT, Germany - Wage talks for 1995 end

MOSCOW OFFICIAL SEES FODDER GRAIN EXPORTSMOSCOW - Updated farming technology and eco

S. KOREAN FIRM TO RUN PHILIPPINE POWER PLANTMANILA, Philippines - State-run Korean E

A U.S. firm said Wednesday that it had signed a contract to explore for oil off China's southeast co

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It dates back to the Paleolithic Age and over the years has been known by such names as Woosul-gun,

After the worst flooding in decades, the next step came Tuesday: the first lawsuit. While la

January heavy-truck sales started the new year with a bang, a sign that last year's record sales par

Rep. James Leach, R-Iowa, hit a nerve among futures industry representatives Wednesday when he stron

Malaysia's state oil firm has awarded the principal contract for its second refinery to a Japanese c

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index, a key inflation indicator, plunged Wednesday to a 19

The earthquake that devastated Kobe, Japan's largest containerport, is changing distribution pattern

Japan isn't likely to get the overflow if U.S. sanctions block Chinese textiles into the United Stat

Wednesday Feb. 8, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Big Japanese life insurers, once heavyweight investors abroad, are dissolving investment vehicles th

SHIPOWNERS MUTUAL CLUB CREATED IN LUXEMBOURGThe Shipowners' Mutual Strike Insurance Associat

Aetna Life International Co., a unit of Aetna Life & Casualty Co., said Wednesday it joined with the

The European Commission came no nearer Wednesday to deciding whether the number of Hollywood blockbu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Feb. 4, '94 - Feb. 8, '95 (a graph) (2)D

Several major French companies have pledged their support to the United States' efforts to obtain co