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The Liberian Shipowners' Council is lashing out at the International Transport Workers' Federation's

The debate over whether USAir baggage, catering and ground service workers should be unionized is ge

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has eliminated its autonomous air cargo business devel

TWA TO BEGIN SERVICE TO PARIS, BARCELONATrans World Airlines will begin non-stop service to

Fearing damaging frost in Florida citrus growing areas, traders bid frozenconcentrated orang

School officials in Gilroy, Calif., have placed the city's only roller- skating rink off-limits to s

S. KOREA WEIGHS PLAN TO CUT RICE STOCKPILESEOUL, South Korea - The South Korean government i

Don C. Becker, president and publisher of The Journal of Commerce, will be hon- ored Jan. 24 by a tr

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Thursday announced an employee stock ownership plan that will buy up to $800

The call came at 3 a.m. He was fast asleep. Charles Anderson, an attorney for Haight, Gardner, Poor

WASHINGTON - For the week ended Dec. 16, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railro

The U.S. dollar traded mostly lower Thursday after an early mixed pattern. Most trading room

SOUTHLAND CORP. TO SELL CITGO STAKE TO PDVSASouthland Corp. announced Thursday it signed an

The tanker Seatrader began a nine-hour journey through the Panama Canal Thursday, marking the first

Anticipating dramatic reforms for the entire economy under a new president early next year, Brazil's

GLUTARALDEHYDE BASF Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., will increase the price of glutaraldehyde eff

When debate finally concludes on the 1990 farm bill, Congress will probably have given producers mor

The World Bank is likely to resume lending to China early next year, World Bank sources said Thursda

Privatizing Asia's largest nickel mine may take longer than digging themetal out of the ground.<

Shipping companies here are waiting for official clarification from the U.S. government about whethe

Waterway industry executives expect growing problems on the Ohio River as weather forecasts call for

Nolan Gimpel, newly named chief executive of the Port of Oakland, said heplans to fight the

CSX Corp. and the United Transportation Union have agreed to reduce crew sizes on the company's Ches

Air express company investment of time, money and staff to develop standardized electronic communica

Temple Holdings Ltd., a joint venture formed to take over Sea Containers Ltd. of Bermuda, said Thurs

BP America ended speculation about a potential buyer for its Old Ben Coal Co. subsidiary Thursday wh

A chronic pilot shortage has forced Northwest Airlines to cancel hundreds of flights in recent month

AMERICAN RE ACQUIRES RISK MANAGEMENT FIRMAmerican Reinsurance Co. has acquired Becher and Ca

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J., has approved the sale of Todd Shipyards Corp.'s air-power

Grapes and other fruit from Chile are beginning to arrive in the United States, and exporters are ho

Hasbro Inc., the toy company that brought GI Joe back from the dead a few years ago, is hoping to wo

Political change has spawned great hopes about future business opportunities in Eastern Europe, but

While producers predict a bright future for light, healthy canola oil, some economists and industry

In small-town Maine, lobster shipper Bay Bigelow calls it disastrous. In big-city Boston, ai

Millions of books are crumbling into dust, the victims of acid in the paper they are printed on. But

Senior citizens in Minnesota are facing health insurance premium increases in 1990 ranging from 8 pe

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Taiwan plans to lend some of its massive foreign exchange reserves to local businessmen to buy overs

After almost 20 years in the maritime industry, 14 of which have been spent at ports, Steven Paul Re

JAPAN IMPORT INCENTIVES DRAW CAUTIOUS PRAISEJapan's new tax incentives announced this week s