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There's a good chance Congress will renew the nation's hazardous-waste- cleanup law next year amid s

An 84 percent increase in exports to Malaysia helped to bolster the state's foreign trade total to $

The Defense Personnel Support Center said it has switched to a newly engineered Exxon Chemical Co. m

One of the games container-shipping executives play is speculating over which companies will survive

In 1990, the antiquated Gulf of Mexico Port of Tampico handled 20 percent of Mexico's waterborne tra

May 24, 1994 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Denmark's consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in April compared with a 0.1 percent increase in March, t

After nearly a decade of business exile, South Africa's gold industry has kicked off a marketing eff

China's bid to control tin exports may end in failure, an official source at China National Nonferro

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,100-$1,150per ton lots &

Discounts for Cuban raw sugar have narrowed in recent days on reports of severe crop damage in the c

U.S. exports to: Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Canada, Portugal, Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, Other.

The French shipping line Compagnie Maritime d'Affretement has agreed to provide container space on i

The rally in cocoa and coffee futures sputtered late Tuesday and prices fell by the close after near

1499 (May 24, 1994) Previous day - 1500 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

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

A proposed sailing schedule overhaul for a major U.S.-South American trade lane should markedly bene

The Port of Long Beach this summer plans to decide how it will correct the wave surge problem that h

With congestion again a headache at many of China's ports, a Hong Kong firm is negotiating deals to

Sea-Land Service Inc., started a direct container service to a western Canadian port over the weeken

STOWAWAY JUMPS SHIP, ESCAPES US CUSTOMSNEW ORLEANS - A stowaway on the Clipper Allia

MITSUI O.S.K. LINES (AMERICA) INC. (Jersey City, N.J.) - Peter Norwood was named assistant vice pres

In an unusually blunt statement, Jack Goldstein, president and chief executive of New York tanker gi

A key maritime union and two groups of U.S.-flag shipping companies have reached an agreement in pri

A compromise agreement hammered out Tuesday after several days of tense negotiations will let future

To feed its giant steel plant near here more efficiently, Inland Steel Co. has idled one of its thre

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An agreement between maritime unions, shipping companies and the oil industry to support ending a 20

White House officials have told business leaders that they are considering blocking imports of goods

Foes of Teamsters President Ron Carey are pulling out all the stops to discredit his proposal to abo

Demand for the 40-foot "high cube" marine container has surged on Pacific shipping trades, creating

Belarus' National Bank ordered on Monday that all payments be made with the country's own ruble, bac

Monday, May 23, 1994(Percentage Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

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

A leading Hong Kong business organization said Monday it opposes Gov. Chris Patten's electoral refor

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Rules on the import and distribution of lumber and construction materials, as well as on land use, s

U.S. trade officials are reviving an idea advanced last February to jump- start stalled trade talks

Signs of overheating materials prices continued Monday, with The Journal of Commerce's daily Industr