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Cargo Selectivity, a program in which the U.S. Customs Service determines which merchandise will be

Wild Animal Imports From S. Africa LegalThe U.S. Treasury Department has ruled that wild ani

U.S. pasta makers Thursday urged the European Community to end its ''illegal" subsidies on pasta exp

Coffee Exchange Plans Options on InflationWASHINGTON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commiss

Three of the 11 Kuwaiti tankers President Reagan wants to protect in the Persian Gulf have been atta

Kuwait stepped up its campaign Wednesday to rally regional and international support to avert furthe

Stationing the battleship U.S.S. Missouri and 10 other warships in the city will not pose significa

Iranian fighter jets shot down an Iraqi helicopter early Wednesday after it had attacked a Turkish m

Legislation to end what the government calls "malpractices" by shipping agents is drawing a storm of

A consortium of Japanese companies has won a letter of intent for a US$30 million project to develop

A Florida survey indicated that even though more drivers are using child restraint devices, less tha

Three U.S. warships steaming to the gulf to escort Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf war zone complet

Marad, Yards Launch Cost-Cutting ProjectThe Maritime Administration set in motion a governme

Crowley Maritime Corp.'s American Transport Lines is changing its back-and- forth , trans-Pacific ro

Rockwell International Corp. is considering a move into the heavy truck transmission business, but o

Logistics Group Honors W.A. RaedelThe New York Roundtable of the Council of Logistics Manage

Proposed tax changes in Canada may add to the country's problems with distance and scattered populat

Even as Thomas J. Donohue savored his Supreme Court victory in the Pennsylvania flat tax case, the A

The compact pickup market, once the domain of trucks imported from Japan and today the highest-volum

The House voted 340-81 Wednesday to give the Army Corps of Engineers $3.2 billion for port dredging,

The Maritime Administration has published a pamphlet explaining the details of this country's strict

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Great Lakes port officials are trying to get their marketing act together before they take it on the

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Two men have been charged with extorting more than $17,000 from construction companies working on a

An Indian relief ship left this southern port Wednesday with about 800 metric tons of food and medic

Pesticides, industrial chemicals and sewage flow into harbors along America's coasts, often collecti

Elders Finance Group said its investment, property finance, merchant and private banking activities

Top Stories Investors and traders are adopting a generally optimistic stance toward the poli

The U.S. dollar moved broadly lower Wednesday in quiet, nervous trading. Analysts said there

The first of three full-service banks taken over by the government during afinancial crisis

As Japan gradually internationalizes its financial system, its banks face a growing responsibility t

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Mandatory deadlines for government action on railroad-shipper rate disputes might solve some of the

Mass. Town Rejects Railroad ProposalBELCHERTOWN, Mass. - Voters in this small central Massac

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange's new gold futures contract is off to one of the best starts of any

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

Ten to 12 cars of a northbound Santa Fe freight train derailed near the Beacon Oil refinery in south

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Carriers are going to have to do even more adapting to stay abreast of technological advances and in