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Transportation News Ticker The dry cargo and tanker fixtures listed herewith and compiled in

India's long-haul truckers Monday dismissed as propaganda government reports that their 12-day strik

MEXICO MAY PACKAGE 2 PORTS IN PRIVATIZATIONOAXACA, Mexico - Two major oil ports on e

Amoco Corp. said a subsidiary will begin operating a new central natural gas processing platform in

OPEC BASKET PRICE INCREASED LAST WEEKKnight-Ridder FinancialGENEVA - The price of OP

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said it will undertake an in-house study of the 16-year-old trans-Alask

Japan could import as much as 400,000 metric tons of rice this year from the United States, analysts

(Pounds Sterling Per Metric Ton) Sept. 27, 1993Bid AskedCopper_

GAS CALLED VITAL TO US ENERGY POLICYAUSTIN, Texas - President Clinton considers grow

FOOTWEAR Jogging shoes. Contact: Shandong Light Industrial Products Import & Export Corp., 8

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has re-opened lock 27 on the Mississippi River near St. Louis, but

Japan does not intend to use its influence to persuade Arab nations to end the economic embargo of I

A House subcommittee today is expected to vote to open its doors to the public while it drafts the b

With passage of the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) facing anuncertain future, m

For the week ended Sept. 18, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

Now that Germany and the United States have signed a new bilateral aviation agreement, Lufthansa Ger

Norway's current account surplus jumped to 12.64 billion kroner (US$1.75 billion) in January-July fr

France's troubled state-owned shipping, airline and aeronautics companies are seeking cash injection

Longshoremen unhappy with the Peavey Co.'s decision to cut the size of grain loading crews at a Colu

GLOBAL TERMINAL & CONTAINER SERVICES INC. (Jersey City, N.J.) - John R. Jeffrey was named chief exec

Waterfront workers employed by the firm Australian Stevedores continued a nationwide strike Monday d

TO THE UNITED STATES/CANADA POLAND. Oct. 6-22. A delegation of Polish companies will visit D

China will build a 200-megawatt nuclear reactor at the Daqing oil field near Beijing in its largest

Brazil's Companhia de Navegacao Maritima SA (Netumar), in an aggressive move that will increase its

Triple Crown Services Co., the intermodal joint venture of Consolidated Rail Corp. and Norfolk South

BURLINGTON AIR EXPRESS (Irvine, Calif.) - Norman Rasmussen was named vice president of sales for the

Flooding in northeast Oklahoma threatened three bridges on Burlington Northern Railroad's St. Louis-

U.S. grain exporters are having a bad case of the blues. Some buyers - such as the former So

Zimbabwe and its neighboring countries in southern Africa are making a modest recovery from the deva

The Great Flood of 1993 was a massive event in grain markets, wreaking havoc in supplylines and pric

CLINTON SEEKS PROVISION FOR SICK SUBSCRIBERSWASHINGTON - President Clinton wants Con

Newly publicized suggestions that China may seize Hong Kong ahead of the scheduled handover from Bri

Thailand's National Petrochemical Corp. has picked foreign and local underwriters for its planned fi

A story on Page 1A Sept. 24, headlined, "Teamsters to UPS: Deadline in Five Days," misstated United

Jan Carlzon resigned as president and chief executive of Scandinavian Airlines System on Monday to w

Sen. Wendell H. Ford, D-Ky., has introduced legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration'

The draft proposal put together by the United States, the United Kingdom and France to stiffen sanct

Japan's Sakhalin Oil Development Corp. (Sodeco) and Russia will meet next month to discuss resuming

Commonwealth Edison Co. Monday agreed to a $1.7 billion customer refund and rate reduction, called t