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IT SEEMS AS IF ALL OF A SUDDEN fuel oil price protection plans are in the news; maybe fuelvendors st

For nearly nine months, a federal grand jury has delved into whether Saddam Hussein's plan to make I

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I am in my hotel room in West Berlin - no, not the $200-a-day Schweizerhof or Bristol Kempinski, jus

JAPAN'S LIFE INSURERS REPORT HEAVY LOSSESJapan's 25 life insurance companies took heavy loss

Crude oil inventories declined slightly last week but remained substantially higher than a year ago,

LAND PRICE RISES STIR CONCERNS IN JAPANThe Bank of Japan warned in a report released Wednesd

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceAgric

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Two major airlines with a big stake in the international heavy freight air business are negotiating

The Navy wants more leeway in the way it chooses ocean transportation of defense cargo. It i

Repeal of the tax exemption for home heating oil and an increase in other petroleum taxes is expecte

The government of Tanzania has adopted an investment code that for the first time allows foreigners

The Military Sealift Command defended the methods it used in rejecting as too high a host of rates s

STAR REEFERS SLATES NEW SERVICE TO USStar Reefers, the refrigerated shipping line formed las

Transportation Week in New Jersey kicks off next Monday with breakfast speeches by two newcomers to

Container volume moving through Puget Sound ports can be expected to rise 71 percent to about 3.4 mi

Eastman Kodak Co.'s board of directors Wednesday elected Kay R. Whitmore to succeed Colby H. Chandle

A bill to provide greater protection for intellectual property was formally introduced in the legisl

Stanford University has begun a research project to explore the notion that Japan's economic institu

Sweden is seeking foreign investment in its less developed northern counties, and that could spell

The U.S. dollar finally has broken out of its months-long narrow trading range and is heading lower

The Bush administration told congressional transportation leaders it opposes legislation to create a

The Port of Houston Authority named people to three newly created positions within its trade develop

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Christine E. Bisho might never have started exporting clothing if she hadn't gone looking for a wedd

The House Interior Committee Wednesday passed a bill that supporters say would help end chronic timb

The European Community Commission said it plans to spend $363 million to improve and expand natural

Since the advent of deregulation here two years ago, Canada's estimated 60,000 truck owner-operators

New Orleans port officials say fees charted to port users must be raisedbecause: * T

Crystal-ball gazers at the Agriculture Department have been spending the past few weeks looking into

New taxes "absolutely" will be discussed in a fresh round of budget talks set to begin next week, Ri

Greiner Engineering Inc.'s Wallace Hawkes received a call from Hong Kong late Tuesday night that he

OIL, OILSEED SUPPLIES SEEN TIGHTER IN '90-91ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - World supplies of oilse

WEST GERMAN SURPLUS IN TRADE WIDENSFRANKFURT, West Germany - The West German trade surplus w

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The state of South Dakota was awaiting a court decision order Tuesday afternoon on its request for a

The Port of Portsmouth, N.H., plans to be a major player in a $1.5 billion development linking energ