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S&P RAISES RATING ON ITT HARTFORD GROUPStandard and Poor's Corp. raised its rating on ITT Ha

Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kan., on Tuesday continued her eight-year quest to have the full Sena

MITSUBISHI TO UPGRADE AUSTRALIAN PLANTTOKYO - Mitsubishi Motor Corp.'s Australian su

A coalition of industries that have traditionally used the protection of U.S. trade laws vowed Tuesd

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke warned his counterpartsfrom other indus

Four eastern Caribbean islands that have no whaling industry are at the center of a raging controver

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Barge traffic on the Mississippi River is expected to pick up soon following its partial winter shut

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Owners of the American-flag factory ships that process bottomfish in the stormy waters off Alaska fe

Donald Fleming, chosen six months ago as the Port of Seattle's top maritime manager, has resigned.

The three biggest stevedores on the waterfront, Hessenatie, Katoenatie and Noordnatie, are locked in

The Seatrade '94 Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach last week brought representatives from th

Gerd Buss AG & Co., a cargo handler at the Port of Hamburg, has completed a major restructuring invo

The Port of Yokohama, Japan's second-largest containerport after Kobe, handled a record 2.2 million

Delays in dredging berths in the Port of New York-New Jersey will cost jobs and raise the risk of ma

Two crewmen were killed Tuesday in a collision in poor visibility of a sand barge and a containershi

TNT Express Worldwide is jumping on the logistics bandwagon. The carrier said it has created

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NORTH AMERICA Comdex/Comexpo Mexico. March 8-11. Mexico City. Computers and technolo

Mexico and Costa Rica signed a free-trade pact, following three years of often tense negotiations.

The top executives of CN North America and CP Rail System Tuesday bluntly warned Canadian shippers n

The nation's catalogers, magazine publishers and bulk mailers have found a silver lining in a propos

John Riley, former Federal Railroad Administrator, died Sunday in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 47.

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r

The U.S. dollar declined slightly Tuesday in lackluster trading, as dealers kept a wary eye on White

New regulations published this week by Mexico's Transport Ministry classifying hundreds of different

UTU TRIES TO ORGANIZE WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.WASHINGTON - The United Transportation U

The range of bulk prices per gallon for self-service diesel fuel found nationwide by states as colle

The state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. imported 3.47 million metric tons (3.817 million ton

A commuter train derailed near Durban on Tuesday killing at least 46 people and injuring 200, a Sout

Rising tensions between Canada's natural gas industry and U.S. regulators over pipeline tolls charge

S. KOREAN OIL FIRM PLANS POWER, LNG VENTURESSEOUL, South Korea - Yukong Ltd., South

As of Mar. 7, 1994 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

When it comes to rates for paper and lumber shipments there is one word to remember - backhaul.<

A glut of beef, pork and poultry could hit the U.S. market in 1996, pressuring prices for all three

Supplies remain tight of high-quality boxcars suitable for carrying paper, but a number of railroads

Rail traffic in pulp and paper might seem anything but run of the mill. The three largest pulp and p

Japan is not expected to yield to demands from the United States to reduce its tariffs on copper bey