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The Jewish refugee ship Exodus is one of the historic vessels to be assigned a place this year in th

Marine police and the navy in Singapore are stepping up patrols after an increase in pirate attacks

An Iranian gunboat attacked an Indian tanker sailing for Kuwait on Monday, the fourth raid on ships

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

They used to be comrades in arms, giants in their respective industries. Now they're digging foxhole

Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. already has charged its ratepayers more than $23 million over the past tw

The search for ships to haul U.S. grain to the Soviet Union and China pushed the Baltic Freight Inde

Northwest Airlines To Lay Off 646ST. PAUL, Minn. - Northwest Airlines said improved operatio

Grancolombiana Earned $7 Million in 1986BOGOTA, Colombia - Flota Mercante Grancolombiana, th

The Soviet Union will be giving credits totaling about 2.2 billion rubles to help India develop 15 c

Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. named Eric R. Zausner, a senior vice president, as managing director, U.S

A senior Commerce Department official voiced hope that Congress will pass an omnibus trade bill acce

California utilities are using cheap oil prices as a lever in trying to force Bonneville Power Admin

GENERAL NEWS Consumer confidence dropped in April after rising for two months in succession,

The Maritime Administration said it will replace its 50-year-old "essential trade routes" system wit

Foreign investment is soaring in Heilongjiang, China's farthest northern province near the Soviet Un

The port of Vancouver soon may lose its last fireboat as part of a municipal cost-cutting program, w

A longshoreman brings the first of a new type of South Korean-built cars down a ship's ramp at the p

Reacting to criticism from Stockton-area residents, a committee seeking to have a $4.4 billion atom

The portable radios boom out country and western on the Smyrna assembly line. But the rhythm is unmi

IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust Co. said it was mandated by the Bank of China to arrange a $150 million fi

With the quarterly Treasury refunding out of the way, the credit markets can catch their breath and

The number of American monsters that Britons see on TV, counterfeit lemons and the kind of presents

AIG Profit Rose In First QuarterAmerican International Group Inc. reported first quarter ope

An assistant secretary of the Navy, without explanation, withdrew a letter to the Maritime Administr

Emery Chemicals announced increases ranging from 1 cent to 3 cents a pound for ethylene oxide based

Fri., May 8, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

Ausimont NV announced net income increased to about $14.3 million in the first quarter of 1987, or 4

New York-based National Distillers & Chemical Corp., recently followed the business-school textbook

Japan's Transport Ministry will permit British Caledonian Airways Ltd. to operate flights between Lo

The New York State prison system and the State University of New York paid $422,000 in fuel oil taxe

A U.S. businessman imported an item through a local port where the U.S. Customs Service classified s

In ship cabins around the world, books with the anchor-and-knot insignia of the Cornell Maritime Pre

An Australian helicopter pilot took his craft aboard a containership for the first leg of a planned

It looks as if good economic news really was good news, for a change. Unexpected strength in

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

Ford Motor Co. unveiled a new higher horsepower, higher capacity model in its popular mid-range Carg

Southern Company Services Inc. suddenly entered the spot market to buy up to a nine-month supply of

Quarterly Profit Rises At Coastal's Coal UnitCoastal Corp.'s coal business had an operating

Proposed legislation to regulate financial guarantee insurers in New York state will be discussed at