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Driven by market conditions and customer demands, shipping lines have been compelled to look at inno

The Maritime Administration said last week it signed five cooperative agreements designed to enhance

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KUWAIT MAY BUY SHIPS BUILT IN PENNSYLVANIAPHILADELPHIA - A company owned by the gove

Forget for a moment the nagging problem of slipping breakbulk tonnage. These are heady days at Hampt

The United States and the European Union reached a major agreement cutting EU tariffs and other trad

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Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is a big supporter of research-based pharmaceutical companies

"Something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" That's how Bob D

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

STEINER NAMED DIRECTOR OF PORT OF TAMPATAMPA, Fla. - Robert Steiner was appointed as

Computer parts laced with toxic PCBs are being shipped to Sweden a month after an environmental acti

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For the week ended Nov. 25, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Thumbing its nose at the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has twice ruled an aggressive underch

Municipalities outside major French cities began organizing chartered buses for commuters last week

Louisiana's State Insurance Department, in a case reminiscent of one that surfaced around this time

The U.S. Postal Service awarded $1.2 million in contracts to four companies for the development of c

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The capital's mass transit system is edging slowly ahead, amid a labyrinth of negotiations and decis

NIPPON CARGO AIRLINES RAISING US-ASIA RATESTOKYO - Nippon Cargo Airlines plans to im

Dutch short-haul plane maker Fokker NV said it agreed to transfer 34 aircraft to a new leasing compa

Friday Dec. 1, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

With its voracious appetite for plastics showing no sign of being met, China is adding ever more pet

INDUSTRY UNVEILS PLANS FOR SCRAPPING OIL RIGSLONDON - The international oil and gas

Deep inside the 8,100-page, 35-pound Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger application lies a fascin

The United Transportation Union and the bargaining unit representing most major U.S. railroads have

Burma has had very positive discussions with the International Monetary Fund and should reach an agr

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by Reuter Money Service, are selling rates among

Friday, Dec. 1, 1995 (Percentages Per Year) INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Efforts to forge a hemispheric free trade agreement for the Americas are inching forward, but there

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 9 '94 - Dec. 1, '95 (a graph) (2)DA

The U.S. dollar will gain this week at the expense of an ailing British pound and a weak French fran

The European Union's top agriculture official has said he will defend the bloc's ban on imports of m

Estonia has become the second former Soviet Baltic republic to apply for membership in the European

"You suddenly have 125 million people looking at their water. It's hysteria."

President Boris Yeltsin offered a pre-election economic carrot to unhappy Russian business interests

Italy won Russia's biggest privatization deal so far Friday, snapping up a quarter of one of the cou

TOSHIBA PLANS FACTORY FOR COMPUTER CHIPSTOKYO - Toshiba Corp., bracing for rapidly g

South Korea's semiconductor exports are expected to total $29.683 billion in 1996, up 40 percent fro