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EXPLOSION ROCKS IRANIAN OIL PORTNICOSIA, Cyprus - An explosion shook Bandar Khomeini

LANE Jan.-Mar. Jan.-Mar. 1993 1994North Europe to East Coast

HIGH COURT WON'T HEAR NJ POLLUTION CASEThe U.S. Supreme Court refused this week to r

Marine Terminals Corp. representatives last week unveiled a 10-year management agreement to operate

Harry Gilbert will take over as managing director at the end of the current year, the ship managemen

REPORT: CANADA TO UNVEIL SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Employment and In

The Philippine unit of Singapore's Keppel Corp. said Tuesday it won a contract to build two clean-pr

All 36 crewmembers aboard the Chinese-owned bulk carrier Apollo Sea are confirmed dead in the vessel

Belarus plans to open the first toll road in the former Soviet Union next year, part of a plan to fi

The Arab Trade Financing Program will ease credit terms to bolster flagging inter-Arab trade and set

Officials with British Rail's international freight arm, Railfreight Distribution (RFD), said they w

Foreign investors in Vietnam should get greater peace of mind next month when a bankruptcy law takes

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +12.136/22 102.76/23 102.36/24

Tuesday, June 28, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

Despite falling imports and a positive trade balance of $6.9 billion in the first quarter of 1994, t

As a longtime, ardent believer in deregulation and the benefits of the free market, I never thought

The United States and Chile appear to be heading for a bilateral free-trade agreement, a step short

The Hanes clothing company has temporarily suspended shipments of cut cloth to Jamaica after finding

Britain's gross domestic product in 1994 will show the strongest growth in six years, according to t

Closing a two-day meeting of a newly formed Russian Foreign Investment Council on Tuesday, Russian l

The U.S. dollar fell Tuesday, dragged down by falling U.S. Treasury bond prices, but it found suppor

Sales at Japan's major department stores and supermarkets fell in May for the 24th month in a row, s

Six U.S. airlines have urged President Clinton to reopen talks on liberalizing the British-U.S. mark

An agreement between Burlington Northern Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad earlier this month has

First quarter of 1994, in millions of dollars Japan $3.19Canada $1.53

Burlington Northern Railroad, whose withdrawal from the major Texas intermodal markets in March redr

A new round of global negotiations over China's bid to rejoin GATT got off to a good start here Tues

China appears to be getting tougher on its demand that state-controlled unions be installed in all f

Japan Tuesday released its long-awaited deregulation plan covering 279 planned steps to open up the

Community-located factor companies are rapidly expanding beyond their traditional customer base in t

The Clinton administration today is likely to designate China as a copyright pirate, after abruptly

A trade mission by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association aimed at expanding its me

The World Bank is expected to approve today a $500 million loan for Russia's oil industry, amid indi

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is embarking on an ambitious program to turn Washingt

US NET FOREIGN DEBT UP $47.8 BILLION IN '93WASHINGTON - The net foreign debt of the

Three of the nation's major coal-hauling railroads oppose the $1 billion maritime subsidy legislatio

Rail freight traffic is rising in the 12-nation European Union, boosting hopes of a permanent shift

The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen division of the Transportation Communications International Union

British brewers, struggling to keep their heads above a wave of cheap alcohol imports, are attemptin