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WORKING RIG COUNT FALLS BY 2 TO 932The number of working U.S. oil and natural gas rigs decli

Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. is looking to expand into air freight and passenger liners, top executives

Exxon Chemical (Thailand) Co. will begin construction of a solvents plant in Thailand in the next f

JAPANESE MAY SNUB BOND SALE NEXT MONTHTakahide Sakurai, chairman of the Life Insurance Assoc

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

JJH Inc., Arlington, Va., has received a one-year contract for marine technical services to support

The Supreme Court upheld Congress' 1987 ban on repayment of construction differential subsidies, end

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President Bush saluted a group of Florida Keys environmentalists on Earth Day, promising not to disa

NIPPON CARGO AIRLINES (Tokyo) - Kunio Maruoka is general manager of the airline's new office in Seou

Shipowners are concerned that shipping will be treated as "a throwaway card" by negotiators at the U

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by chemical manufacturers from federal water pollution standard

A call for a tax on imports to help pay for environmental cleanup in the United States is eliciting

Imports of man-made fiber sweaters from Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan are being dumped in the U.

Eurotunnel, the company that owns and will operate the Channel tunnel between England and France, ha

Despite a direct appeal from the head of the Regular Common Carriers Conference, Nasstrac shippers d

TNT CONTRACT LOGISTICS INC. (Rosemont, Ill.) - Douglas E. Christensen was named vice president and m

Mon., Apr. 23, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The Soviet Union Monday bought 149,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheatfrom the United S

A proposal to decontrol the nation's shipping business has some companies worried about rate levels

Grain and soybean prices were mostly higher Monday although prices were off their highs by the close

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On the day after Earth Day, some New York state legislators were predicting passage of a bill that w

Fifteen major companies that ship petroleum near Florida agreed earlier this year to keep their tank

SHIPPERS FREIGHT GROUP PICKS JACOBI PRESIDENTHUNTINGTON, N.Y. - Raymond M. Jacobi, freight c

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has spun off its large, multimillion-dollar international publications and

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1414 (Apr. 23, 1990) Previous day - 1418 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

CUMMINS REPORTS DECLINE IN EARNINGSCOLUMBUS, Ind. - Cummins Engine Co. earned $8.9 million,

A bullish demand scenario likely to last into 1990-91 and increasing commodity fund activity have pu

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ITC DISMISSES CASE INVOLVING PAIL IMPORTSThe International Trade Commission dismissed Monday

THURSDAY PROGRAM SET ON ELLIS ISLAND PROJECTA program and slide presentation on the restorat

* Import Quota Watch 4A * Commodity Research Bureau: Gold 7A* Janet Porter - Europe View 8A<

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. will lay off about 850 people by May 15. The l

Development of new measures to simplify and speed the clearance of international express traffic wit

Economic, maritime and environmental issues on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence system will be discussed

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Monday said many people will starve to death in northern

SHELL SHUTS DOWN UNIT AT ROTTERDAM REFINERYA catalytic cracking unit at the Royal Dutch/Shel