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Evergreen Boosts Sailing FrequencyEvergreen Lines is increasing its sailing frequency to pro

Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa announced an ambitious plan to help indebted nations convert debt t

Postal Service automation, which already can send about half of all delivered mail to the final lett

Officials of economically depressed Richland County are going to the races in an offbeat community e

The results of a recent study on Agent Orange levels in Vietnam veterans would make it impossible to

A Los Angeles lawyer who represented alleged asbestos contamination victims has been removed from 37

The Maritime Administration is trying to improve its system for keeping track of the heavy pace of d

Open-flag registries for merchant ships "are here to stay," said John Whitworth, director of the Int

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

Mexico won't risk overheating its economy with impatient spending of its $14.6 billion in foreign re

Leipzig Trade Fair Focuses on FoodOver 6,000 exhibitors and representatives from more than 1

The Long Island Lighting Co. says that despite the findings of other studies, it would be mathematic

Japanese bankers received an appeal from the British chairman of Eurotunnel Tuesday for greater fina

Despite the rise in hostilities in the Persian Gulf over the past few days, insurers are holding off

Teamsters union president Jackie Presser says the 1.7-million-member union will fight the federal go

French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac said that some industrial countries - notably the United States

Matson Navigation Co. announced it will build two new containerships for its Hawaii trade, as Americ

Individual and small-group subscribers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey face a 25 percent

The port of Duluth said grain and general cargo shipments were down through July, but total volume w

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

The U.S. Federal Reserve intervened to support the dollar Tuesday morning, but foreign exchange anal

Sony's decision to market new digital tape recorders in Europe before questions of copyright protect

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole apparently subscribes to the theory that the best de

Ivolin Enterprises announced several price changes in its line of essential oils and aromatics.<

AB Astra of Sodertalje, and Unimed Inc. of Somerville, N.J., jointly announced the signing of a lice

A subsidiary of Northwest Airlines intends to address the shortage ofqualified pilots and ho

Organized labor is riding the crest of economic growth in New York state instead of being swept unde

Eastern Airlines President Philip Bakes charged that public concern about air safety is reaching hys

Chessie Is History, As C&O, CSXT MergeRICHMOND, Va. - Another venerable railroad name - C&O

Iranian speedboat commandos attacked and set fire to a Spanish supertanker in the Persian Gulf Tuesd

A Maritime Administration public counsel said he does not believe American President Lines Ltd. shou

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee cleared the way for consideration of a bill that

The trade bill amendment bearing his name is not the only controversial contribution Rep. Richard Ge

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

AIR CARGO Los Angeles International Airport showed an increase of 12 percent in air cargo du

Firestone Will Supply US Toyota PlantAKRON, Ohio - The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. announced

More than 90 percent of the pollutants in the air of some public buildings comes from copy machine e

Texas oil men say life in the oil patch has been so grim for so long that a little activity looks im

The pilot of an Aeroflot passenger liner who last week reported a near collision with a U.S. jet fig