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Angry truckers won a slight reduction in scheduled toll increases of up to 67 percent on the Massach

Worried that container lines might wrongly conclude that Seattle doesn't want their business, the Se

Companies scared away from electronic data interchange by its thicket of standards and acronyms risk

Swilynn International (Holdings) Ltd., a locally headquartered but multinational maker of video cass

One of the biggest agricultural problems of the next decade will be a shortage of railcars for hauli

The newly modernized Port of Marsaxlokk has secured a mouthwatering publicity coup. Soviet President

Lawyers for Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood have asked the courts to dismiss criminal charges

GSP STATUS FOR HUNGARY. Pursuant to presidential proclamation 6060, dated Nov. 1, 1989, published in

A 55-acre container terminal to be built for Hanjin Shipping Co. at the Port of Long Beach now looks

The Far Eastern Freight Conference of 30 lines serving the Europe-Asia trade has turned down a reque

A previously announced deal under which the Blue & Gold Co. would pay Crowley Maritime Corp. an esti

The U.S. dollar declined Thursday as traders began buying deutsche marks again. Dealers cite

Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a software package that allows people using different programs on d

Alfred Herrhausen, head of West Germany's largest bank and a prominent symbol of the country's capit

The Port of Los Angeles in October became only the second U.S. port to handle 2 million 20-foot cont

International finance experts this week shoved aside trade and aid packages such as the United State

A new fruit war is looming between the United States and South Korea. U.S. action over South

The Port of Baltimore is on hold. Its worst-ever labor crisis, which could explode into a po

Americans will smoke fewer cigarettes this year than in any year since 1942, according to a projecti

Both Congress and its investigating agency, the General Accounting Office, have taken an interest in

Policyholders of the state's third-largest auto insurer can look forward next year to something Prop

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' new higher production quota probably will overwhe

A federal court Wednesday affirmed the right of bank holding companies to own banks that engage in n

Two Canadian shipping companies on the Great Lakes are pooling their bulker fleets under long-term c

Nov. 29, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Farmers will have to plan more carefully in the 1990s to produce crops that use less pesticides, a U

Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Hisham Nazer Wednesday predicted that the Organization of Petroleum Expor

Depleted inventories and rising demand have forced West German refineries to buy distillate fuel oil

NY AGENCY APPROVES DECOMMISSIONING DEALNew York Power Authority trustees approved an agreeme

Primary inventories of distillate fuel oil increased slightly during the week of Nov. 24, counter to

Gainesville Regional Utilities is considering buying from foreign producers up to 500,000 tons of st

Isramco Inc. said it had encountered natural gas shows in an exploratory well it is drilling off the

Emery Worldwide faces a unified front at the bargaining table following the settlement of a jurisdic

First, the government spent $72 million to help build two ships, the Falcon Leader and the Falcon Ch

Massachusetts Port Authority executive director David W. Davis said Tuesday he will pursue a new pla

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. will sell assets valued between $1.2 billion-$1.5 billion to develop discoveri

Sugar futures closed sharply lower after a late dive that steepened the March contract's midday loss

GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM FALL ON NY EXCHANGESPrecious metals futures dipped in late dealings,

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Port commissioners at Seattle and Tacoma met Wednesday to hammer out a joint resolution asking the W