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One of the biggest developments in the United States' ocean transportation business in recent years

The U.S. Maritime Administration and Prudential Lines Inc. are locked in a struggle over three Prude

Foreign investors are watching warily as Brazil prepares to draw up a new constitution that could in

Home heating oil marketers have their work cut out for them if they're going to regain the market sh

The shipping conference for the trade between the western Mediterranean and the United States has ad

A railroad car carrying nuclear wastes to a Washington state dump took a wrong turn and ended up in

IFC Helps to Establish Bank in HungaryThe International Finance Corp. is helping to establis

China and the Soviet Union signed a contract to reconstruct a metallurgical plant that was built in

Platinum prices are expected to average US$550 in 1987, compared with an expected average of $526 i

S. Korean Firm SignsHimont PactHimont U.S.A. Inc. signed an agreement with South Kor

The British coal industry appears heading for a major setback in the New Year when the government is

Ashland Oil Inc. announced at the weekend that it has been advised by Richardson-Vicks Inc. that RVI

Malaysian Output Of Crude Palm Oil FallsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian crude palm oil pr

The European Community Commission said it will pay 2 million European currency units ($2.1 million)

This largely rural city of 130,000 will ask the Virginia General Assembly next month to authorize th

Some said it was as exciting as watching paint dry. Others squandered vacation time to stand freezin

The U.S. office of the Asia North American Eastbound Rate Agreement has hired three former United St

Europe Container Terminus, the Rotterdam box-handling company, extended the deadline for trade union

UK Official to Address Dinner for Oil TradersPeter Walker, the U.K.'s secretary of state for

Owners of the Seabrook nuclear power plant last week asked the federal government for permission to

Rorer Group Inc. announced that it will keep Armour Pharmaceutical Co. ''After careful analy

With the credit markets beginning the usual holiday season slowdown, analysts are looking ahead at 1

A field of eight companies bidding on a contract to supply 1.2 million metric tons of U.S. coking co

New Interstate Commerce Commission rules spelling out what information about railroad contract rates

A new ICF Inc. survey of 17 major commercial hazardous waste management firms indicates that hazardo

Occidental Chemical Corp. announced Thursday a completion schedule for a project to bring back on-st

A delegation of officials from the Italian state-run utility Ente Nazionale Energia Elettrica, inclu

In an era when local, state and regional competition to attract new companies appears to be heighten

Talks on the U.S.-Canadian softwood lumber dispute continued despite Canada's rejection of a U.S. pr

Japan is moving toward setting an inflation-adjusted annual economic growth target of about 3.5 perc

Belgian Steelmaker Reaches Layoff AccordBRUSSELS, Belgium - Cockerill-Sambre, Belgium's larg

Eight months after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, the Soviet Union is trying to seal

Brazilian Coffee Crop Put at 25 Million BagsRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Early data collected by

A Federal Maritime Commission ruling could allow United States Lines (SA) to recover about $1 millio

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

The 21 air carriers belonging to the Association of European Airlines expect their passenger busines

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it reached a preliminary agreement to buy the Hilton International hot

Mitsubishi Motors Sales America, a subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp., announced plans to

Japan plans to propose a 20-year international fundamental science research program of about 1.0 tri

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which celebrates its 25th anniversary thi