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The chief mate of the tanker Surf City had emerged from one of the ship's ballast tanks only minutes

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

LEVERAGE IS THE CURRENT EUPHEMISM for debt; whatever it's called, analysts and shippers increasingly

Some crucial meetings open unofficially today in Singapore among principal Pacific steamship lines

Gov. Jim Florio's auto insurance reform plan has passed another level of legislative approval, despi

A bipartisan congressional commission Friday narrowly approved an estimated $70 billion plan designe

EX-IM BANK TO EXTEND CREDIT COVER TO POLANDThe U.S. Export-Import Bank announced that it is

US ECONOMIC INDEX UNCHANGED IN JANUARYThe index of leading indicators, the government's main

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORP. (San Francisco) - Capt. Ghalib Tikari was named assistant vice president of

TRANSCO ENERGY PLANS INVESTMENTS IN GASTransco Energy Co. said its 1990 capital budget was $

The government said Friday that sales of new homes fell 7.1 percent in January to their lowest level

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American and European commercial aircraft operators are becoming increasingly aware of the need to r

Deregulation threatens more turbulence for Australia's troubled domestic airlines, which are facing

What's in a name? A fair bit if that name is Evergreen.Because it couldn't reach an agreemen

Schreiner Airways BV of the Netherlands has ordered a Dash 8 Series 100 aircraft from Boeing Canada,

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Congressional committees began work Thursday on this year's package of authorizations for commercial

Senate leaders, backed by Bush administration officials, Thursday announced an agreement on clean ai

Japan's crushing houses, which turn all of the country's oilseed imports into meal and edible oil, f

The Kill van Kull, one of the busiest arteries of the New York-New Jersey harbor, was expected to re

The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation to make permanent the Caribbean Basin Initiative p

Himont USA Inc., the nation's largest producer of polypropylene, raised prices for all grades by 3 c

World wheat output will have to rise significantly in the new 1990-91 (July- June) season if a three

Levi Strauss Associates Inc., the world's largest clothing maker, expects the decline of communism i

A landmark Harvard study on the hidden burden of medical injuries and negligence, released here Wedn

APPLE COMPUTER INC. (Cupertino, Calif.) - Soren Olsson was named president of this computer maker's

Nippon Yusen Kaisha, one of Japan's major shipping lines, plans to invest US$600 million in the Far

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

A revised index to 24 years of papers on the technology of mobility is available from The Engineerin

Mar. 1, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

U.S. negotiators Thursday ended two days of largely unproductive talks aimed at opening Japan's supe

The Senate and White House unveiled a compromise clean air bill Thursday that adopts strict cancer-r

The London International Financial Futures Exchange expanded its array of deutsche mark-denominated

Last year's container volume through the Port of Seattle, which its executives had expected to be fl

A large independently owned customhouse broker and freight forwarder recently enlarged its presence

Twenty-six ships were trapped by ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Thursday, up from 18 the day bef

Mar. 1, 1990 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

After almost a decade of dickering with the Customs Service over development of an automated commerc

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Thursday voted to issue a full power license to theSeabrook,