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American Society of Transportation and Logistics, seminar on fundamentals of traffic and transportat

Japan's nine electric-power companies are planning to expand their overall generating capacity by 40

Amoco Corp. and a group of other companies Tuesday received formal approvalfrom the United K

The government hopes to sharply reduce costs by leasing, rather than buying, oil to fill the nation'

An executive of Martha's Vineyard's sole oil terminal denied charges by the Massachusetts Attorney G

Canadian grain farmers are up in arms over a decision by the federal government to open the border

Australia's biggest life insurer is looking for more growth and investment prospects in internationa

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ROLLS-ROYCE TO CUT 3,000 MORE JOBSBritish aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce PLC said Wednesd

California's trial lawyers are opposing legislative proposals that would limit or forbid accident li

Matson Navigation Co. named new leaders for two of its operating sub- sidiaries. Gary J. Nor

WHOLESALE MERCHANTS SEE DROP IN INVENTORIESInventories of U.S. wholesale merchants fell 0.5

The U.S. dollar rose in quiet trading Wednesday on news that Iraqi anti- aircraft guns fired at a U.

NATIONAL STARCH WINS SANTA FE RATE CASEThe Interstate Commerce Commission upheld a law judge

Soo Line Railroad Co. agreed to sell 145 miles of track to a newly formed railroad called Twin Citie

What do you do with an artificial industrial center isolated far from markets and suppliers in the m

Cash-strapped India is having trouble finding the foreign exchange reserves to pay for June oil impo

The Twin Cities Board of Trade flew out of the starting gate early this year in the race to be the f

Occidental Petroleum Corp., moving for the second time this week to pare its massive debt, said Wedn

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The Lloyd's of London insurance market is investigating a potential 320 million ($550.4 million) lo

German Economics Minister Jurgen Moellemann on Wednesday urged the European Community to scrap its s

The chairman of the House subcommittee responsible for drafting highway reauthorization legislation

The upper house of Japan's Parliament Wednesday passed laws aimed at making it easier for retailers

The Port of New Orleans is aiming to expand its role in intermodal operations, shift more control to

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is unlikely to be invited to join the leaders of the world's larg

Pan American World Airways plans to reclaim its Miami-London route authority, ending a short trial p

An oil spill from a tanker is killing birds on "a mass scale" in a sensitive region at the southern

Saudi Arabia's Eastern Petrochemical Co. has signed a construction contract for a new ethylene glyco

The European Commission's first tentative estimate for the 1991-92 (October- September) rapeseed har

The Reinsurance Association of America confirmed Wednesday that Franklin W. Nutter will become the a

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Only a tiny fraction of the world's large tankers are equipped with double bottoms, figures released

Mexico needs a free trade agreement with the United States if it is to generate the capital it needs

Rescuers found 191 survivors of a riverboat accident in the swirling waters of an Amazon tributary b

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With ethylene production on the rise in foreign countries, U.S. chemical companies should concentrat

The Great Lakes Commission urged Congress to authorize funds to modernize the Mackinaw, the premier

The central banks of countries in the European Monetary System are unlikely to follow last week's ha