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Finguerra Named To TRIP BoardGeorge J. Finguerra, president and chief operating officer of t

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

The industry laughed when Jim Darnell first talked about putting rollers on pallets to make the load

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

What goes up in the heavy-truck market will come down next year, says Data Resources Inc. in a recen

Sept. 21 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

A 564-foot freighter collided with a car-carrier ship Monday in dense fog off the coast of Californi

1031.5 (Sept. 21) Previous day - 1034.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

The Gulf Ports Association, still reeling from a 1985 political blow dealt by Great Lakes ports, hav

Mon., Sept. 21, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Pharmacia Leo Inc., an affiliate of Pharmacia AB, a Swedish-based biotechnology and pharmaceutical c

Pfizer Buys Complex From Gulf & WesternPfizer Inc. announced an expansion and consolidation

The use of styrofoam cups and so-called clamshell food and beverage containers soon may be outlawed

Fred Keady, a Chicago businessman, has reached an agreement to purchase Millers Cove Resources Inc.,

If Long Island Lighting Co. is taken over by the Long Island Power Authority, electric rates will be

British coal miners Monday began a national overtime ban stemming from a dispute with state-owned Br

Crude Drug Supplies Evaporate as DroughtHits Western IndiaA drought in Gujerat State

Insurers should take more care when assessing risks in a war zone, speakers addressing a gathering o

The Maine workers compensation market is shrinking as nearly a dozen insurers - holding about 50 per

September 21, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gal

GE, Redding Power Set Cogeneration VentureSCHENECTADY, N.Y. - General Electric Co. signed a

In an effort to increase oil exports to prewar levels, Iraq has signed a billion-dollar contract to

Many members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are allowing customers to scale ba

The Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. said that a subsidiary will acquire an additional 2.5 million b

Aetna Employees To Get Care InsuranceHARTFORD, Conn. - Aetna Life and Casualty Co.'s 49,000

The government says the maker of some portable propane heaters that were sold in the 1960s and which

Gross domestic product will probably grow by 12 percent this year, twice as much as estimated in the

Nearly 40 years after the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls was created, the

Pending export control revisions in the House and Senate trade bills could help U.S. exporters signi

Belvedere Corp. announced Tuesday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Belvedere America Reinsurance Co

China has issued tough new regulations to combat illegal pricing and speculation that have clouded i

Spokesmen for a salvage expedition that surveyed the wreck of the Titanic said Monday that an explos

Several port directors say Houston's proposed $100 million state-of-the-art bag-handling facility co

E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been awarded the Plastic & Rubber Institute's Prince Philip Award

Caribbean shippers say they will boycott a shipping conference that has increased rates on cargo bet

A streamlining of Malaysia's plastics industry is needed to reduce competition and boost the sector

Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will try to get the ball rolling on insurer-provided long-term care insuranc

Bechtel Group, the nation's largest construction company, says it expects this week to become the fi

The president's budget director is not convinced that the latest congressional budget deal is good e

The U.S. Maritime Administration is eliminating four representatives in foreign embassies,and many s