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China may need to import up to 1 million metric tons of long-grain rice to offset losses caused by f

The Italian company Iveco, the truck division of the Fiat group, has made a bid for the Egyptian sta

Federal farm programs will face strong challenges from budget-cutters and environmentalists during t

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said Monday it reserved the right to call for a nationw

EU STEELMAKERS TO FILE DUMPING COMPLAINTBRUSSELS - European Union steel producers sa

Osaka automaker Daihatsu Motor Co. said it has started production of a new popular minicar in Malays

India's official wholesale price index for all commodities for the week of July 10-16 rose 10.34 per

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Friday at 233.65 up 1.45 whi

1443 (Aug. 1, 1994) Previous day - 1440 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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Germany's transport-insurance sector is benefiting from a return of many marine-insurance customers

The U.K.'s Abbey National Bank announced Monday the formation of a joint venture with major insurer

CENTRE RE COMPLETES ANGLO AMERICAN DEALHAMILTON, Bermuda - Centre Reinsurance (Bermu

Minnesota Mutual just got a new chief executive: Robert Senkler, 41, a 20- year company veteran who

An American company will be first across the threshold as Pakistan reopens its door to foreign life

CIGNA SEES INCREASE IN OPERATING INCOMEPHILADELPHIA - Cigna Corp. Monday reported se

Lloyd's of London - the troubled insurance market - will announce measures to recover unpaid monies

Keeping the United Nations forces armed, fed and supplied with relief and humanitarian aid for the c

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending July 29, 1994.

Seattle's bizarre "bridge to nowhere" - a source of jokes, wild speculation and mystery book covers

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

Panama should avoid turning the Panama Canal into a profit-making venture when it takes control of t

The U.S. Navy has commissioned its first double-hulled oiler, the USNS Patuxent. The craft w

SUEZ CANAL AGENCY PLANS TOLL REDUCTIONSISMAILIA, Egypt - The Suez Canal Authority pl

Shipping lines could not have coped with the current boom in European exports to Asia if they had fo

These log and lumber movements were the largest recorded from port documents, during the two weeks e

Environmentalists got a first look Monday at a proposal to dump dioxin- contaminated harbor muck int

DOCK LABOR TALKS DRAG AT MARSEILLESPARIS - Stevedoring employers and dockworkers at

Publicly identifying ships that are allegedly deficient may prove counterproductive unless accompani

A management shake-up begun last summer has transformed the top management of Lykes Bros. Steamship

Malaysia's real gross domestic product grew an annualized 8.5 percent in the January-March period, c

Japan's socialist-led coalition government has decided 1 to restrain growth in defense and some oper

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CONTINENTAL CORP. (New York) - Timothy P. Mitchell was named senior vice president and chief underwr

In Billion of Dollars 1993 1994Non-residential building $42.3 $44.7Residentia

With the summer sun baking the Texas countryside and the mercury in another climb over the 100-degre

The bad karma surrounding American President Lines' vessel President Washington continues to build u

House Democrats and Republicans are close to a compromise plan for extending President Clinton's spe

By the end of the year, there could be as many as four or five international insurance companies lic

Facing an uphill battle, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee leaders will try today to get