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SEAMEN'S BANK FOR SAVINGS (New York ) - Lawrence Daly was promoted to vice president of the bank.

If President Bush has wasted no time in reaching out to Congress, he also has not missed a beat in d

Pilot Air Freight, a privately held forwarder with headquarters in the Philadelphia area, is adding

The state of Washington said it will campaign to end a shortage of air cargo space on routes from Se

International Minerals & Chemical Corp., which in the past year pulled awayfrom its traditio

So you've socked away a few clamshells and hope to buy a little sailboat to dabble around with on th

Two auto insurance firms have asked the state for rate increases that would apply to 47,000 cars.

In an "Inside Talk on Insurance" item appearing on Page 5A in the The Journal of Commerce of Friday,

Prices of ocean freight futures contracts lost ground for the second week in a row last week, in lin

U.S. Customs is taking in hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn't deserve, but the increasingly w

CALIF. SENATE REJECTS POLICY RENEWAL BILLSACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Senate late las

* JofC Industrial Price Index: Aluminum 6A * Kevin Commins - Currency Forecast 7A* Milan Sve

U.S. companies looking to enhance their competitiveness in the world market will find attractive inv

The practice of kerb trading all but disappeared from the grains floor of the Chicago Board of Trade

Shippers and truckers are bitterly divided over a proposal before the Interstate Commerce Commission

FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN US ROSE 26 PERCENT IN '87Foreign direct investment transactions in the

The North American unit of ECS Marine, the British-based credit reporting agency, has closed its doo

Feb. 3, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Generic pharmaceutical companies must become more creative to survive during the coming consolidatio

The year 1989 is a "transition year" for U.S. steam coal exporters during which a good performance c

DOW CHEMICAL GROUP TO HIKE MDEA PRICE MIDLAND, Mich. Dow Chemical Co.'s GAS/SPEC Technology

Every model of new two-door cars that was intentionally run into posts andbarriers at 5 mph

Japan's annual current account surplus dipped for the first time in seven years, by 8.7 percent in 1

The U.S. Customs Service has halted a nationwide, multimillion-dollar counterfeit perfume and clothi

Inbound trans-Pacific ocean carriers say they are increasingly optimistic that a general rate increa

A showdown may be looming between the currency market and the world's major central banks. C

COMPANY SET TO HELP SAUDIS INVEST IN JAPANThe Arabian Oil Co. of Japan announced it is ready

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for the 50-mile container-handling ru

AEGON AGREES TO PLAY MINOR PART IN FIRMTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Aegon Insurance Group an

Empire Life Insurance Co. of Kingston, Ontario, has agreed to purchase a controlling stake in Connec

The Port of Marseilles will start to bring the third component of its EDI system on stream April 1,

Falling temperatures left much of the Pacific Northwest locked beneath a blanket of snow Thursday, c

Looming shortages of skilled labor can be eased by relying more on older workers, provided they rece

French export promotion organizations have come under fire for their lack of cooperation and coordin

PA. TO GIVE $25 MILLION TO PHILA. PORT CORP.Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey this morning i

Top leaders of the new U.S. government that took office Jan. 20, 1989, headed by President George H.

The promises of the computer information age have been slow in coming for the traveler. Just about e

MANUFACTURING INDEX GAINED IN NOVEMBERThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported its Midwe

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Jan. 14, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

CHRYSLER, RENAULT PLAN JOINT VENTURE COMPANYChrysler Motors Inc. and France's Renault Thursd