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An Iraqi warplane attacked a Panamanian tanker chartered by Iran Wednesday in the Persian Gulf, mari

The part-denationalized national maritime carrier of Malaysia intends to buy six more vessels by 199

Meridian to Continue Insurance ExpansionREADING, Pa. - Meridian Bancorp Inc. told shareholde

Across California's Silicon Valley, slumbering semiconductor makers are jolting to life in what obs

After three days of wrangling, European Community farm ministers abandoned talks on proposed farm pr

The Carrier unit of United Technologies Corp. is making its first foray into China with majority sta

Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng says his one success in Japan is that country's willingness to pu

An open ship registry is what the United States needs to expand and strengthen its merchant marine,

There's good news for exporters in an obscure piece of the House trade bill that would give a low-pr

The Federal Maritime Commission wants to consolidate into one rule the requirements for handling agr

After riding out a world shipbuilding recession atop a swell of domestic orders in the 1970s, depres

Stock prices rose Wednesday, but gave back much of their early gains when thedollar fell in

Japan will open up its markets and expand flows of Japanese capital to developing countries in the f

Midway Posts Profit for QuarterMidway Airlines Inc. reported net income of $1,159,000, or 11

For the first time, legislation dealing with overall foreign trade problems will pay attention to fo

Tuesday's editions contained an incorrect telephone number to contact as a source of information abo

Insurance subsidiaries are continuing to be put out of business in an alarming trend" despite ties t

Kevin Foley, director of public affairs at the New York State Insurance Department, has been appoint

Premier Constantin Dascalescu has said that failure to meet targets for the energy sector this year

Fluor Unit to Convert Midland Nuclear PlantJACKSON, Mich. - Consumers Power Co. picked a Flu

A Soviet government report says pollution of the Baltic, Black, Barents and Azov seas has "dropped d

American Automar Inc. says it has completed the reflagging and retrofitting of the vessel Cape Edmon

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

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

Wed., April 29, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

Schering-Plough Corp. is allocating $240 million to research and development in 1987, or 13 percent

Nunc Inc. Acquires Business From MilesNunc Inc. of Naperville, Ill., a subsidiary of BTR PLC

Airborne trade last year jumped 26 percent over 1985, more than offsetting that year's declines with

The Virginia Ports Authority is expanding facilities at all three of its cargo terminals. At

Jet Air Executives Indicted a Second TimeJet Air, an El Cajon-based aerospace manufacturing

The city of Oakland, tired of being in the shadow of its neighbor San Francisco, is launching an unu

As trade frictions between Japan and the United States grow, Italy is taking steps to open its marke

Chase Service to Aid Importers, ExportersChase Manhattan Bank announced the introduction of

Chevron Corp. hopes to finalize the sale of its deepwater terminal in New York harbor by the end of

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., returned from a trip to Japan sounding less bullish about the amount

A joint venture between a Canadian company and a U.S. engineering company is expected to result in c

Shultz Questions Export Bonus ProgramSecretary of State George Shultz said that extending ex

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

A cargo of Canadian feed barley was shipped into Antioch, Calif., recently, export and shipping sour

When Walt Schreiber packed up a full-scale cannery and loaded it onto a ship the other day, he bare