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A British company has designed a unit that allows a car or van to provide stable direct-current elec

Japan Plans to Reopen Talks on Chip TradeTOKYO - Japan plans to reopen expert-level discussi

Jamaican coffees have made major inroads in U.S. West Coast markets, a senior Jamaican trade officia

Oklahoma City to Host China Export FairOKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The China Guangzhou Export Com

Indonesia is trying to make life easier for those who export and import its products. The co

* The importing company or manufacturer must check with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to det

Top Stories A visit by the pope and the 1988 Republican convention are expected to focus nat

Hong Kong is likely to overtake Rotterdam as the world's biggest containerport by the end of the cen

A freight handlers union, threatened with competition making inroads at the port of New Orleans, has

A six-month industrial dispute that sparked dozens of work stoppages here in the world's largest por

The lightship Relief was a welcome sight for sailors along the West Coast during much of the first 5

Almost a third of the manufacturers in the United States said they expect to increase the share of t

The Royal Navy, which is protecting British merchant ships in the Persian Gulf "tanker war," does no

Foreign Ship Orders Sluggish in S. KoreaSEOUL, South Korea - Foreign ship orders at South Ko

Railroad freight traffic is far more robust than was forecast earlier in the year. For the four wee

NY Train Collision Causes 1-Hour DelayTwo Metro-North trains sideswiped just outside Grand C

Maryland Gov. Donald Schaefer announced a plan to handle more cargo at the port of Baltimore and imp

Genix Software Inc. said shifting market trends in the transportation industry have prodded the comp

A new company called Milwaukee Liner Service will begin operating a containership liner service betw

Viking Freight Inc. said its truckload division will start putting emphasis on retailers and look fo

Air and ocean carriers in the trans-Pacific trades confirm that a trend toward increased U.S. export

Gelco TIP Trailer Firm Opens 2 New FacilitiesBALA CYNWYD, Pa. - Gelco TIP Trailer Leasing ha

Ryder Truck Rental Inc. said it will reorganize its contract carrier freight- hauling companies und

Chrysler Corp. turned an indictment on odometer-fraud charges to its advantage, and probably won't s

The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union will register 450 additional dockworkers t

The Senate Tuesday approved a trade bill amendment which would block multilateral lending agencies f

The Korean government established a patent protection law on July 1 that should allow U.S. companies

A simmering antitrust battle is moving to the front burner on Capitol Hill, and the man who may cont

GENERAL NEWS The absence of an investment treaty with the United States was reported partly

Taiwan Votes to Lift Martial LawTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's top lawmaking body unanimously app

Able to climb steep stairways with a slow steady movement, more powerful than a "G.I. Joe" armored p

Japan's minister of international trade and industry warned business executives that they must stric

In a surprise move, Fireman's Fund Corp., which announced last week its intention of pulling all its

The Reagan administration has unveiled its long-awaited plan for reforming the ship operating subsid

Midland Bank, one of the big four British banking groups, has sharply increased Third World debt pro

An upswing in interest for American-made products has U.S. Foreign Commercial Service officers here

The lack of an investment treaty with the United States and the failure of the Aquino government to

Medical officials said Monday they do not believe a medical malpractice insurance crunch was to blam

An allegation of fraudulent unemployment insurance claims led the Labor Department to an investigati

Shipping executives were shocked at the removal last week of Francis A. Scanlan as chairman of the D