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PICTURE A HIGHWAY that has not six lanes, but 600. Imagine that highway carries not just car

The Interstate Commerce Commission deferred action Tuesday on a Justice Department request to discip

Improved freight rates and the healthier financial position of the shipping industry are unlikely to

The federal bankruptcy court overseeing the Delaware & Hudson Railway Co.'s reorganization will hear

Sea Containers Ltd. announced Tuesday that the cost of breaking agreements to sell its container ass

A Colombian freighter departed the Port of Long Beach without unloading 34 tons of coffee from El Sa

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Ground crews at Japan Airlines in Tokyo this week are going over the first of 20 new Boeing 747-400

Brazilian commercial aviation is squeezed between the hard reality of rising operational costs and u

If aviation taxes are destined to rise, what can the air cargo industry get in return? That was a ke

INDIAN AIRLINES' CHIEF QUITS IN WAKE OF CRASHNEW DELHI, India - The chairman of Indian Airli

Jeffrey Chodorow, one of Braniff Inc.'s major shareholders, has been busy devising a plan to get the

CATERPILLAR EXPANDS DISTRIBUTION SERVICEPEORIA, Ill. - Caterpillar Logistics Services Inc. h

Chief Industries of Grand Island, Neb., has negotiated to build a $3 million grain handling system f

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For a long time, it looked like the only Golden Arches in Moscow's Red Square would be the domes and

Barbary pirates once lurked along Egypt's coast to plunder Mediterranean shipping. Their modern-day

Trucks bearing cargo that moves through the Port of Philadelphia would be able to use the Pennsylvan

THE OCEAN FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET traded sideways last week, with prices for the February, March and

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

CMS GENERATION CO. (Dearborn, Mich.) - Thomas W. Elward, 41, was named vice president of conversion

EUROTUNNEL SHARES PLUNGE DUE TO DISPUTEThe troubled project to dig a rail tunnel under the E

THE DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILWAY saga played out last week like a corporate game of "chicken."

A variety of forces affecting transportation will be put under a microscope early next month at a co

Mack Trucks Inc. reported a loss of $79.5 million, or $2.67 a share,on sales of $370.8 million durin

Three regional railroads will continue to provide service over the dormant Delaware & Hudson Railway

The Port of Seattle is considering building an international satellite network similar to one run by

TEMPLE EXTENDS OFFER FOR SEA CONTAINERSTemple Holdings Ltd. extended until March 2 the expir

The French shipbuilders association attacked a U.S. proposal to abolish shipbuilding subsidies that

PPG Industries Inc. of Pittsburgh and the Sudamtex Group of Caracas, Venezuela, reported that a join

FOLLOWING A THREE-MONTH DECLINE, cotton futures have improved in February, helped by the U.S. Depar

Romania's new foreign minister painted a desperate picture of his nation's immediate food needs, but

INTERNATIONAL PROTEINS TO SELL OILSEEDS UNITWOODBRIDGE, N.J. - International Proteins Corp.

EVA POWDER National Starch and Chemical Co. will raise prices for redispersible ethylene vin

Chemical giant Allied-Signal Inc. charges that Japan is trying to keep out imports of the company's

The U.S. government's proposed 1990 farm bill sends the wrong signal to General Agreement on Tariffs

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index, which measures 18 industrial commodities sensitive t

* Albert L. Kraus - Markets and Money 3A * JofC Industrial Price Index 6A* Commodity Researc

Fri., Feb. 16, 1990 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.