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The subject of trade touches off heated debate among govern ment officials and in the media, but to

Two Ferryboats Collide Off Long Island SoundORIENT, N.Y. - Two ferryboats collided in the fo

IC Industries Inc. moved a step closer to exiting the transportation business, completing the sale o

Elliott Gibbons says he tried to earn money and spread holiday cheer last Christmas by playing class

For the week ended June 27 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The New Orleans Steamship Association, whipped in a legislative battle over pilotage fees, is regrou

Pan Am Corp. said it will soon submit a formal application to the Allied Civil Air Attaches for comb

Never, in all the annals of maritime law, never has an errant decimal point wiped out a ship mortgag

Nissan Diesel Motor Co. of Tokyo will continue to market its trucks in the United States through sep

The partners of dishonest lawyers, even when they haven't been accused of any wrongdoing, are liable

Rep. James Florio, D-N.J., committed himself on Thursday to ending hearings on product liability law

Cortez International Ltd. announced that it signed a letter of intent to acquire a majority interest

A natural gas pipeline company serving the area put too much of a safety additive into its pipelines

Consolidation Coal Co., one of several U.S. companies to stop selling coking coal to Japan's steel m

Further acid rain legislation would be a tragic mistake," Robert J. McWhorter, senior vice president

A federal judge refused to drop charges against a Scottish businessman charged in a plot to export o

Airbus Industrie's new A320 airliner, which enters commercial service next year, made a series of ti

Hydrogen Peroxide demand growth in the United States will grow 14 percent in 1987 to 365 million pou

Burlington Northern Inc. reported second quarter earnings of $74 million, or 99 cents a share, compa

Kuwait broadened its two-week-old drive beyond the Arab world Thursday in quest of support for shipp

Roadway Express Inc. startled trucking analysts this week when it revealed that its second quarter f

A bitter contract dispute has turned 1.7 miles of Brooklyn highway into a legal mine field for a ro

July 9 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High Low

The European Investment Bank has approved US$6.1 million in loans for the completion of a roll-on ro

Ashton's department store survived the Great Depression, but the downtown fixture closed its doors f

NY Assembly Passes Power Authority BillALBANY, N.Y. - Legislation to indemnify the nine memb

The South Bend Foreign Trade Zone in Indiana is off to a slow start after a year of operating, but b

A senior European official described as disappointing the trade policy talks he held here this week

G.C. Hanford Manufacturing Co. plans a $5 million expansion of a facility that produces penicillin p

The demand for new and more innovative trade financing options probably will continue for several ye

Iran has built copies of potent missiles it seized from Iraq last year, the commander of the Revolut

A Delta Air Lines jet with equipment trouble drifted off course and passed close enough to a Contine

Freight will be the strongest growth area in air traffic between now and the end of the century, the

The Teamsters last week launched a campaign to organize Adolph Coors Co. brewery workers and restore

Federal regulatory authorities are expected to approve the $100-million sale of Chevron Corp.'s oil

An insurance executive who proposes financing a new high-risk auto insurance service carrier with Fi

A pilot project to automate entry summaries will be launched at the port of Seattle on Aug. 3 by U.S

GENERAL NEWS To the average person in a middle-class industrial town, trade discussions have

The Senate voted Thursday to mandate that employers give advance notification of plant closing or ma

The chairman of the Senate Merchant Marine Subcommittee is optimistic about reaching a consensus on