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

A top Mexican oil official expressed hope that higher and more stable world oil prices could result

The stock market scored its first broad advance after the Ivan Boesky insider trading scandal as blu

Experts from OPEC member countries convened Thursday to prepare a conference of oil ministers in Gen

The vice chairman of Norfolk Southern Corp. looked down the track and saw more large multi-modal com

Crude oil production in the lower 48 states fell in October to levels of the 1950s, the American Pet

Navistar International Corp., a maker of heavy- and medium-duty trucks, reported a net loss of $50 m

A 30-year-old former computer analyst is general manager of the first short- line railway in Canada

The U.S. heavy truck industry is looking at the idea of a global truck with much the same hope as th

Santa Fe to Record Pretax Charge in QuarterCHICAGO - Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. expects

This could be a classic "which came first, the chicken or the egg" case. A few years ago there cert

Airborne Freight Corp. rejected a $29 a share, or $172 million takeover bidfrom TNT Ltd., an

Inflight Services Inc. said it filed a petition in federal court in Manhattan for reorganization und

The Air Transport Association is aiming to make the task of scanning catalogs and typing purchase or

The Interstate Commerce Commission dismissed a coal rate dispute between the Atchison, Topeka & Sant

Transportes Aeroes Portugueses-Air Portugal, or TAP, the Portuguese state- controlled carrier, is se

FAA Will Order L-1011 InspectionsThe Federal Aviation Administration said it would order ins

The impending demise of Flying Tiger did not come as a surprise to the head of one international for

Portugal's entry into the Common Market earlier in the year is likely to tip the balance in favor of

W.R. Grace & Co. announced it has begun trial production of catalysts at its recently completed plan

U.S. negotiators are to wind up a two-day visit to Brazil today aimed at preventing a possible reser

Owens-Corning Plans to SellDivisionOwens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. and Sterling Faucet

The Federal Maritime Commission soon will receive a solid recommendation to proceed with automating

The Calcutta Port Trust is planning a new container facility that would be able to handle the port's

The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority has confirmed a series of closing dates for the Seaway season.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. seems to be in a better position to face its costly lock r

The port of New Orleans has started putting its new strategic plan into place with a staff shuffle a

The U.S. farm trade surplus in the last fiscal year dropped to $5.4 billion, a fifth of what it was

Italian maize consumption fell 1985-86 to 6.9 million metric tons, compared with 7.9 million metric

Gastech 86. The 12th International Liquefied Natural Gas/Liquefied Petroleum Gas Conference & Exhib

Net income at the port of Los Angeles increased 15 percent in the first quarter of fiscal year 1986-

Comex-Sydney Contract Trades 1,356 LotsTrading volume in a U.S. dollar-dominated gold future

Indonesia's earnings from rubber exports will fall to around US$670 million this year, down 7 percen

A minimum price for EC oils and fats appears unlikely to be introduced during the next two years, O

Production of frozen concentrated orange juice in the state of Sao Paulo in 1986-87 will decline bec

A federal judge ordered a former investment adviser for the retirement plans of the International Or

The jury is still out, but the new U.S. tax law may encourage U.S. companies to produce and invest m

Businessmen and academics in Japan and the United States should be able to share knowledge, technolo

President Corazon Aquino Thursday promised to improve labor relations with management and to crack d

Japan's economy, which continues to be badly battered by the unexpectedly sharp appreciation of the