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Tackling two major insurance crises and banning youngsters from toting guns top the agenda for a fiv

Train traffic resumed Tuesday at a railroad bridge on the Mobile River after a tow of barges hit the

Efforts will resume today to remove fuel from a fire-ravaged tanker near the Houston Ship Channel as

EXEL Ltd. began offering Fortune 500 companies up to $50 million in supplemental property insurance.

Different rules for liner shipping on either side of the Atlantic would not be acceptable, Britain's

India's domestic insurance market will get an opportunity to write export cargo insurance because th

A comprehensive set of model insurance specifications is available on diskette to allow risk manager

How can an empty tanker explode? Easy, experts say. Although nobody is sure what caused Satu

LLOYD'S REJECTS CLAIM FROM EXXON FOR SPILLLONDON - Underwriters at Lloyd's of London

A congressman Tuesday introduced legislation to require towing vessels on inland waterways to carry

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER SERVICES INC. (New York) - Donald L. Seeley was named president and chief exec

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The ruling council of the Teamsters union has ordered a new election at the local covering 5,200 Nor

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The House Public Works and Transportation committee added two women to the majority staff of the pan

Workers at aircraft plants in Georgia are eagerly waiting to learn if the Pentagon wants to proceed

Air cargo traffic between the United States and Japan is still falling, further depressing an alread

The busy fall shipping season has sent intermodal companies on a mad dash to scoop up trailers, cont

AILING HAWAIIAN AIR REPORTS RISE IN TRAFFICHONOLULU - Financially troubled Hawaiian

Sea Containers Ltd., the London container-leasing and shipping group, has agreed to buy the containe

The helicopter hovered in over a slick of nearly 13,000 gallons of Alberta crude about 20 miles off

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1993 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

A World Bank unit said Tuesday it approved its first investment in Kazakhstan, taking a 20 percent e

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

Heavy truck sales set a blistering pace in September as the industry posted its best performance sin

The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to review whether rail workers can receive compensation under a rai

Research showing that U.S. railroads were not important to America's economic development won its au

U.S. exporters frustrated by complex import regulations in the booming markets of the Pacific Rim wi

Amazon Lines Ltd. is offering monthly service from the east coast of South America to North Carolina

The European Community was thrown into confusion Tuesday by French brinkmanship over a long-awaited

SEAWAY PORT AUTHORITY ELECTS VICE PRESIDENTDULUTH, Minn. - Duluth banking executive

A U.S. advisory committee last week urged the Clinton administration to sharply increase spending on

Carlyle Group, a Washington-based investment firm whose partners include former top-ranking U.S. pol

With French policy in the global trade negotiations growing more erratic and obstructionist with eve

Columbia Gas Co.'s heating customers in western Maryland may be a bit confused by their bills this w

WAINOCO OIL TAKES PART IN CANADA GAS DISCOVERYNEW YORK - Wainoco Oil Corp. Tuesday a

Big Rivers Electric Corp. has canceled its coal-hauling contracts with a trucking company owned by a

U.S. imported natural gas supplies for the 1993-94 winter heating season should be "adequate" to mee

The presidents of Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia and leaders of 13 countries in the Caribbean are me