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The American Merchant Marine Library Association received a $3,347 donation from American Steamship

Plagued by continuing losses among many shipping companies, The Journal of Commerce Transportation S

Hertz Corp. said Monday it agreed to acquire Boireau Group, a French equipment-rental concern, for a

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Shipping between China and Taiwan is buffeted by constant political squalls, but another carrier is

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California and Kentucky have become two of the latest states to take up legislation to enable mutual

Last July, employees of Rich International Airways handed a box to some Delta Air Lines workers in

Beginning next month, United Parcel Service will offer a money-back guarantee that truck-delivered b

MCDONALD'S TO INVESTIN ASIA, DESPITE ITS WOESOAK BROOK, Ill. - McDonald's Corp. plans to inv

Staggering economic growth in South America over the past five years has given way to projections of

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One of the world's best-known cruise liners ran afoul of a controversial U.S. cabotage law and has b

Shipowners unprepared for the millennium bug in their software systems will receive little compensat

To understand why Latin American manufacturers have been held back in their attempts to reach world

California has begun a program to root out employers who don't purchase workers compensation insuran

A growing demand in South America for forest products has brought a new world shipping line, Gearbul

Freight railroads that were blistered with criticism from customers during a two-day Surface Transpo

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As 34 heads of state gather in Santiago later this week for the launch of negotiations aimed at c

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Rep. Bud Shuster, the powerful House transportation chairman, faces intensifying pressure from an in

The lawyers are ponderously polite. Witnesses drone. Excitement can be contained in the tribunal whe

The U.S. Customs Service plans to revoke a ruling that spurred a marked increase in ''treated'' Cana

Eight black employees at Amtrak say the national passenger railroad's hiring and promotion practices

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The National Customs Brokers' and Forwarders' Association of America picked new officers. Peter S.

The service and financial travails of Union Pacific Railroad continue to dominate the rail industry

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto last week announced income tax cuts of 4 trillion yen ($30.5 billio

As Brazil and Uruguay prepare to give the private sector control of key ports, there is pride in nei

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India's major ports together clocked a growth of 10.6 percent in cargo handling in fiscal 1998 ended