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The European Community Commission is facing frantic lobbying by shipowners and shippers as it nears

The head of a major ship line said Monday the European Commission should not try to establish rules

For every gross ton they move, ship lines will pay 1 percent to 2 percent more for their liability i

Lloyd's of London is expected to unveil todaya UK900 million ($1.4 billion) settlement proposal it h

A plan to aim U.S. and Russian missiles into the ocean is the latest indication that an arms control

The St. Paul Cos. plan to transfer the customer service departments of their personal and small busi

Dec. 3, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

Grain shipments through the Alabama State Docks Department's public elevator in Mobile soared almost

Britain's Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. is extending its China reach, buying a controll

RUSSIA SETS PROGRAM OF PORT EXPANSIONSMOSCOW - The Russian government's Sea Transpor

The president of Hilton's Kansas City Queen operation says company officials ''fully expect to get a

A domestically led consortium bought the Philippine Shipyard & Engineering Corp. site at Subic Bay t

Mickey Kantor, the U.S. trade representative, is fond of saying he has never taken part in a negotia

The nation's airlines declared another price war Friday, slashing fares as much as 35 percent in the

Burlington Air Express said it has received a logistics contract from the Australian subsidiary of W

With an eye on the growing continental market, CN North America and a Mississippi-based trucking fir

Mexico's state-owned railroad may take a cue from the nation's ambitious highway construction progra

For the week ended Nov. 27, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena was faced with a decision he sought to avoid. Should he ba

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CANADA CANCELS DEAL TO PRIVATIZE AIRPORTOTTAWA - Prime Minister Jean Chretien filled

Gov. William F. Weld's double-stack rail plan appears to have hit a dead end after a key lawmaker sa

New York Mercantile Exchange - Dec. 3, 1993 Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen High Low

The "new" Russian ruble zone created Sept. 7 is in ruins, but the failure of monetary union doesn't

President Clinton signed into law Friday morning a truck rate undercharge bill that spells out settl

Nobody is likely to confuse railroad freight cars with space shuttles, but if Burlington Northern Ra

The Federal Maritime Commission has launched an "informal investigation" into allegations by freight

Consolidated Rail Corp. will be the third major railroad to operate alternating current(AC) traction

European companies are slugging it out for the next plum Asian rail contract - a high-speed link bet

After a 20-year hiatus, United Parcel Service is again experimenting with an electric-powered van.

John P. Stern doesn't act like some foreigners who have lived in Japan for a while. He doesn

A prominent business-labor group has given the Clinton administration and Congress a mixed review fo

Friday, Dec. 3, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York, are selling rates among trading

Trash is becoming a small but growing and profitable business for the Norfolk Southern Corp.

The U.S. dollar will rise this week on bullishness on the U.S. economy and expectations for a succes

Prospects for a turnaround in the German economy in the second quarter of 1994 have improved conside

Hate waiting in lines at the store? A New York computer company called Symbol Technologies I

Irish real gross national product growth will be 2.5 percent in 1993, rising to 3.25 percent in 1994