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New Hampshire Port Authority Director Ernest Conner hopes his 10-acre terminal here will be maxed ou

Japanese Islands Linked by New BridgeA worker tightened the last bolt Wednesday on a 12.3-ki

Operations returned to normal at Taiwan ports after customs brokers and government officials reached

Drug smugglers beware. The Coast Guard has added four high-speed, high-tech boats to its fig

A petition against the government takeover of Scindia Steam Navigation Co. was withdrawn in Bombay h

India is negotiating a US$190 million credit from the Asian Development Bank to fund an upgrading of

Combined revenue and tonnage increased for the North Carolina State Ports Authority during the last

Canadian railway union officials began discussions in Ottawa Wednesday of a federal conciliator's re

In your summer search for refreshing white wines, don't overlook Italy. While it is better known for

A retro-illumination camera from Britain is designed to record cataracts and other abnormalities in

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Brazil Coffee Exports Can Roll ForwardRIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The Brazilian Coffee Institut

The New Bedford, Mass.-based tug Jaguar displays manila bow bumpers little used today as it lays bes

EC Ship Lines Protest Hyundai Freight RatesEight European ship lines have lodged a formal co

The Maritime Administration paid out some $19 million more to satisfy holders of government-backed f

The Netherlands has been sounding out the member nations of the Western European Union, or WEU, on a

Overseas Shipholding Group, a major ship operator that specializes in the tanker and dry-cargo marke

Several major ship lines and some fruit and car importers are discussing using the vacant Howland Ho

Italy has no immediate plans to send minesweepers to the gulf and still believes the United Nations

California housing production rebounded in June, due largely to a surprising spurt" in multi-family

World sugar imports in 1987 are expected to decline further by some 5 percent to 24.8 million tons,

Here is an idealized timetable for the discovery and commercial production of oil from the Arctic Na

Weak monsoon rains in Asia and plagues of grasshoppers and locusts in Africa were reported to be thr

The West Coast shipping industry Wednesday was still waiting to hear the results of a close longshor

The mysterious appearance of mines in waters outside the Persian Gulf has dramatically raised the st

Many of the 210 residents of this Eskimo village hugging the northern coast of Alaska see developmen

The chances of finding oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's northeastern coast are

The U.S. Navy is sending an unspecified number of small patrol boats to bolster its escort of Kuwait

Bonn Swaps 3 Agents From E. Bloc for TwoBONN, West Germany - West Germany on Wednesday swapp

Maersk Line has signed a major contract to use Transax/RATES' Shiprate service to automate its tarif

Ford Motor Co. will make TRW Inc. of Cleveland its main supplier of air bags and advanced seat belts

It is called the largest-ever U.S. work of jurisprudence, and the presiding judge says the multibill

Japan's business community will provide all-out support to the Nakasone administration's decision to

Mike Bradshaw, a geologist with Conoco Inc., digs out a handful of gray sandfrom a bluff ove

A Clemson, S.C., textile company, in search of workers, recently placed help- wanted ads in newspape

Decisions being made in transportation bankruptcy cases that call for payment of interest to unsecur

The Greeks, who have seen themselves grow steadily poorer for two years in a row, have received a wa

Tax reforms enacted by Mexico this year are already boosting revenue substantially, finance official

Reports that Japan's Toshiba Corp. has lost its bid to sell 90,000 lap-top computers to the U.S. Air

F.W. Woolworth Co. reported its second-quarter earnings rose 19 percent as they were helped in part