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Italy's unemployment still may rise but the pace of job losses is slowing indicating the worst proba

In the latest effort to increase tanker safety, an American company that sets ship design standards

Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced the issuance of a patent entitled, Antisense oligonucleoti

Japan is expected to reduce its key discount rate to its lowest-ever level soon but currency traders

Congress came back this week to a full slate of transportation and insurance measures but it's likel

COCOA FUTURES KEEP THEIR UPWARD TRENDNEW YORK - Cocoa futures continued to surge as

Shipping lines have to work harder to gain a piece of the lucrative U.S. pleasure boat business as e

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In another episode of a drawn-out battle, Merck Frosst Canada Inc. of Montreal is seeking a court in

A pension fund that has $17 million to invest every working day is, for the first time, looking at C

Midwest floods and strikes by coal and iron ore miners caused August railroad carloads to fall 5.6 p

1406 (Sept. 8, 1993) Previous day - 1409 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

U.S. and Canadian maritime and business representatives will begin a one-week trade mission to Russi

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A look at the pending legislation and issues involving the transportation and insurance industries b

Members of the Seafarers International Union ratified a new, three-year contract with the American M

TAIWAN REINS IN FIRMS' INVESTMENT IN CHINATAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Securities and E

The aggressive privatization program in Bangladesh has come under fire both at home and abroad, with

CONSTRUCTION DELAYS NY BRIDGE TRAFFICNEW YORK - Motorists using the George Washingto

An Indian blockade of a major rail line leading into the Port of Vancouver is over, but port and rai

Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. said Monday it expects third- quarter pretax earnings to

The United States and other major nations soon may slow down or halt new credits to Russia, a top Tr

Last-minute efforts by Southern Pacific Transportation Co. failed last week to derail a bill that wo

United Parcel Service and the Teamsters union won't be able to reach a new contract until UPS drops

The number of French company failures rose to a seasonally adjusted 5,555 in July from 5,128 in June

TWO EXECUTIVES JAILED FOR ILLEGAL DREDGINGSAN FRANCISCO - Two shipyard executives ha

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Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is hoping for a response within a week on whether the General Accounting O

State-owned Italian liner shipping companies are expected to forge closer links with the private sec

NEW SULZER DIESEL US INC. (New York) - Robert G. Walsh Jr., 49, has resigned as president and chief

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A barging accident early on Labor Day bottled up long-distance Mississippi River traffic, and might

Alliance Shippers Inc. has established a team of regional international managers to boost sales and

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British Petroleum Co. plans to increase its U.K. North Sea oil and gas output by 6 percent by 1995,

Sept. 7, 1993 Copper Total, 98,699. Gold Total, .2,385,835.Silver To

China has settled back to gloat at Washington's mistake over a Chinese ship accused of taking banned

BASF TO BUILD FACILITY IN WESTERN SIBERIABERLIN, Germany - BASF recently signed an agreement

France will be pressed to end its opposition to the Blair House agreement when Peter Sutherland, dir