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Air France has a three-pronged approach to developing cargo traffic - business that accounts for 22

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

A state senator from Los Angeles is proposing a 15-cent increase in the cigarette tax to pay for hea

Fifteen years after Richard Nixon's electrifying visit, China and the United States remain divided o

The Philippine government will go ahead with debt rescheduling talks next week despite Brazil's deci

Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III said the United States reached a tentative understanding with

3rd Wire-Tokyo Expo Set for April 1-4Held for the third time in succession, Wire-Tokyo '87 w

China's Grain Exports Expected to DeclineChina's grain exports will drop to 5.5 million metr

Corporate and personal income taxes are cut and some consumption levies only slightly increased in t

Large-scale modernization is planned for India's state-run railroad system, reputedly the world's se

BankAmerica Loans SAN FRANCISCO - BankAmerica Corp.'s plan to turn an operating profit by th

Indications that Brazil may allow the International Monetary Fund to do some surveillance of its eco

Bored brokers on the floor of the Baltic Exchange had something to talk about Wednesday after the ne

Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., called major pending trade legislation protectionist poison and urged trade

President Reagan may veto the highway funding bill being worked out by congressional conferees becau

It's easy to spot American tourists in Europe. They're the ones wearing the Burberry raincoa

An Evergreen Marine Corp. containership hit and effectively destroyed a $1.3- million container cran

It's easy to see why investors snapped up British Airways stock when the British government sold it

A jury awarded a retired sea captain and his wife $10.4 million in a case involving the ocean shipme

At dawn on Aug. 24, 1848, the copper-sheathed packet ship Ocean Monarch, the pride of Boston's Train

The head of the Bonneville Power Administration says the agency will not meet its mid-March deadline

Ford Plans to Offer Head Gasket WarrantyFord Motor Co. Will offer an extended warranty for h

Mounting highway insurance losses tied to severe winter weather will cut Preston Corp.'s first quart

The first of several shipments of a new truck line to be distributed in North America by PACCAR Inc.

A truck driver training company acquired a controlling interest in Overland Express Inc. and plans t

Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole again called for legislation giving the Federal R

The U.S. government is trying to improve its special trade scheme for the Caribbean, which has been

The European Community commission has prepared a legal opinion accusing West Germany of violating th

Builders Transport Posts Drop in NetCAMDEN, S.C. - Builders Transport Inc. reported fourth q

No Mubarak Visit CAIRO, Egypt - President Hosni Mubarak has rejected a U.S. suggestion that

The European Community's executive commission substantially lowered its forecast for the EC's econom

President Francois Mitterrand said Italy and Canada should be included automatically whenever the ma

The statistics show that container traffic at the port of Gothenburg last year was up over 1985 figu

The Commodity Credit Corp. has put into effect new rules for determining how U.S.-flag vessels quali

Late last year, 600 port workers agitating for higher pay threatened containerships docking at Cochi

MERGER TALKS between the National Maritime Union and the Seafarers International Union have been put

Cargoes of animal fodder, hazelnuts and herbs from Turkey have been rejected at ports in Egypt and t

Nearly one out of five seagoing jobs in the U.S. merchant marine are on ships op erated by or charte

Smit-Lloyd BV, the Rotterdam-based support vessel outfit, is still trying to fire 59 of its 544 seam

The construction of two car ferries has become a political hot potato in France. Several of