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AVIATION Frequent fliers should know their rights. 4BAs other carriers withdrew flights fro

Steven G. Elliott was named executive vice president, finance, of Mellon Bank NA. He succeeds James

President Reagan, as expected, named C. William Verity Jr. as his choice for the new secretary of co

Airlines in West Africa are increasingly flying into stormy financial weather. Nigeria Airwa

Consumer food prices are going up at a slightly faster clip this year than had been predicted, an Ag

A consolidated recommendation to raise a shipowner liability for cargo damagefrom $500 a pac

10 Americans Hurt In Greek ExplosionATHENS, Greece - A booby trapped car on Monday exploded

The wave of labor disruption sweeping South Korea may cause acute immediate problems but probably wo

Business is booming in the Persian Gulf in the shadow of a potentially deadly confrontation between

The Carriers Container Council Inc. has sued the International Longshoremen's Association in a dispu

China's once-backward shipbuilding sector is rapidly becoming a world force,and is poised to overtak

The grain export market is booming this summer, usually a quiet time. The unseasonal business is boo

Larger, fully loaded containerships will be able to serve the Port Elizabeth- Port Newark marine ter

A freight train whose brakes failed as it sped into a southern train station slammed into the back o

In a break from its customary support of the Thatcher government, The Economist magazine has cautiou

The administration of Gov. Robert P. Casey has effectively killed whatever faint hopes remained for

Remember when the fear of flying was largely a safety concern? And jet lag was a brief malady caused

NY Train Radio Law To Take Effect Sept. 1ALBANY, N.Y. - A new railroad law to take effect on

The United States has bowed to importer pressure and reopened its 1987 quota for women's coats from

Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev called on a regional Communist Party committee to learn the detai

The Panamanian-flag tanker Texaco Caribbean, which struck a mine Monday south of the Strait of Hormu

The U.S. court of appeals here has found that the Navy's Military Sealift Command correctly handled

Coast Guard Cutters To Be CommissionedMIDDLETOWN, R.I. - The seventh and eighth 270-foot cut

Superintendent of Insurance James P. Corcoran on Monday announced that Suffolk County District Attor

Matson Navigation Co. is upset at the way American President Lines Ltd. islining up shipper support

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

American President Lines, which had been calling at Guam twice a month, will begin weekly calls to t

A U.S.-operated supertanker carrying Iranian oil hit a floating mine Monday just outside the Strait

The thousands of truck drivers who travel the New Jersey Turnpike daily will have a rest stop of the

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

The Pentagon has awarded a $63.1 million contract to RCA Corp. of Moorestown, N.J., for continuing w

Truck Group Publishes Membership DirectoryALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Private Trucking As

Fishermen say Iran and Iraq have seized or destroyed scores of their boats and converted many into t

Waterfront labor and management in this port agreed last fall on a new longshore contract - or did t

Independent truckers are faring better financially than in recent years and may profit even more wit

Equipment Co. of America reported income for the second quarter rose to$206,000, or nine cents a sha

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1039.0 (Aug. 7) Previous day - 1014.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in L

London's bus drivers and conductors began a 24-hour strike Monday to protest the government's decisi

Financially troubled Todd Shipyards Corp. is studying an offer from investors to buy its Aro Corp. f