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1063.5 (Oct. 2) Previous day - 1052.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in L

Top Stories Chinese exporters look for increased business abroad at this month's Chinese Export C

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has blocked a state regulation that restrict insurers use of th

It looks like a cross between the board games Monopoly and Risk - with a world map splashed across t

Producers of ethanol in the Caribbean are seeking more favorable terms for exporting their product t

BFGoodrich Co. announced that the prices of Hycar butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymer latexes will be

Cambridge Analytical Associates Inc. announced that its Bioremediation Systems division has been awa

A total of 375 vessels have been attacked or damaged by Iraqi and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf

House, Senate to Begin Trade Bill ConferenceThe House-Senate conference on omnibus trade leg

Brougher Syndicate Inc. has filed a plan to withdraw from the New York Insurance Exchange at the end

The dollar may be near the upper end of its current range and is unlikely to strengthenmuch further,

The westbound trans-Atlantic shipping conference isn't in immediate danger of collapsing when Dart L

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The Reagan administration continues to view export bonus as a program aimed specifically at the Euro

The president of the West Coast's largest U.S.-flag shipping line says the business is changing fast

Some of the Agriculture Department's grain experts are daring to suggest what many considered unthin

FMC Restructures Pension ProgramFMC Corp. announced that it has partially completed a restru

Oil market prices firmed slightly last week in quiet trading Friday, with the continued hostilities

C&NW Agrees to Sell Track Sections in Wis.The Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. h

World demand for container traffic will continue to make leasing the boxes more attractive than buyi

Nearly half of the people who walked away from fatal car crashes last year had been wearing seat bel

The airline industry and Wall Street will watch with more than usual interest when a Senate committe

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

It did not take the limelight of the broad U.S.-Canada free trade negotiations, but the two countrie

Mitsubishi Electric Unit Plans Tacoma FacilityTACOMA, Wash. - A subsidiary of Japan's Mitsub

Attempts to phase out flags of convenience "can only be the ultimate in lost causes," claimed John W

The United States and Brazil are in a new computer software trade dispute that may lead to U.S. repr

October 2, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

Members of the House of Representatives basically ignored funding issues Thursday when they voted to

It looks like a gravel parking lot built in the middle of a swamp. Only a little complex of pipes in

A supertanker, the Maryland (center), has been chartered to Kuwait for use in the Persian Gulf. A si

Although there will be the usual temporary shortages in some areas, nationally there is plenty of st

Ship lines operating on the West Coast have shifted much of their fuel purchases from Los Angeles to

Balance of Payments Falls Sharply in JapanJapan's current account surplus fell sharply in Au

A major Chinese effort to trim customs red tape and harvest a new crop of imports has gone largely u

Efforts to provide pilots with better and more timely weather information, including warnings about

Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen has announced the award of $10 million in

Japan lodged a protest with Iran Friday over alleged Iranian attacks on two Japanese tankers in the

Soviet commercial ships are getting repairs at Chinese shipyards for the first time in 20 years, an

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent)is as f