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The Massachusetts Maritime Academy president said he will ask school trustees to review his policy o

A plan to generate new dockside jobs in the New York area is seriously flawed and has little or no c

A lean and specialized sea-land transport system is helping a couple of Brazilian cellulose manufact

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

Total oil inventories on Jan. 1 in industrial nations were down to an estimated 450 million metric t

The national trade association for customhouse brokers wants Congress to have a voice in the selecti

General Electric Co. reported Monday that a sharp increase in international sales for 1988 resulted

HERON, BURCHETTE, RUCKERT & ROTHWELL (Washington) - Alexander Papachristou, an associate at this int

When you enter Sulmona, you walk into a real sugar-coated world. The small town is Italy's u

The question is beginning to turn to "when," not "if," Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita will

International creditors were still huddled Monday in negotiations for new loans to Venezuela, saying

The minimum wage issue will be back on the political calendar some time this year, and as usual it i

Pillsbury Co., now controlled by Britain's Grand Metropolitan PLC, said Monday that it plans to cut

Past carrier agreements with the U.S. Customs Service failed to stem the flood of illegal drugs into

AMEV ADVISERS INC. (St. Paul, Minn.) - Thomas Birk was named vice president for sales, a new positio

Top executives of 13 major shipping lines in the Pacific trades gathered Monday in Seoul, South Kore

New York City's principal working marine terminal is likely to be expanded this year, and the enviro

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

Earnings from exports of coffee from the Philippines soared last year to a shade under US$50 million

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The price of some popular consumer goods, many imported from the United States, rose last week.<

HUNGARY, POLAND SAID SEEKING CLOSER US TIESVIENNA, Austria - The foreign ministers of Hungar

On Last Week's Rioting in Venezuela "In economics . . . there are fashions and the fashion n

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Europe's big transport groups are swallowing their smaller rivals in a rush to break into new freigh

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. has filed the paperwork for the Maritime Administration waivers and approv

America's frozen Northwest is meeting Asia's (comparatively) warmNortheast, as Alaska stages its fir

Singapore's Keppel Corp. is taking control of a shipyard in the central Philippines, and is putting

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

SOMETHING HAS BEEN HAPPENING to the nation's money supply. After fairly heady growth early last year

After nearly 20 years, the famed luxury liner United States has set sail once again, but only to be

Australia-New Zealand Direct Line has started distributing its sailing schedules by an automated fac

The Federal Maritime Commission revoked the licenses of four ocean freight forwarders. Two f

Ministers from nine members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and perhaps seven o

The government-run telephone company, Telmex, will undergo a $15 billion restructuring in the next f

NETWORK, SWEET NETWORK. When it comes to EDI, most industries like to work with a communicat

The Bush administration has decided to proceed with a controversial deal under which a major U.S. de

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

Dow Chemical Co. claims to have pioneered the practice of offering trading company services to third

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