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Panama Canal officials have been walking a fine line in their public pronouncements about the breakd

James H. McJunkin, who is ending a 25-year career with the Port of Long Beach, Calif., has accepted

A uniform European railway network is the ultimate goal of a transport agreement that went into effe

The General Accounting Office sharply criticized several of the nation's largest railroads for faili

A European Community official said last week that roughly 90 percent of the manufactured goods enter

LEADING INDICATORS FALL FOR SECOND MONTHThe Index of Leading Indicators, the government's ma

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Florida Power & Light Co.'s senior secured debt rating was lowered to A+ from AA- and senior debt an

UMW OKS MEDIATION IN PITTSTON STRIKEThe United Mine Workers of America said Friday it would

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER CO. (Columbus, Ohio) - Ronald A. Petti was named to succeed Gene B. Hale, se

The European Economic Community will not make the same errors the United States did when it deregula

British Airways has taken a 40 percent stake in Dunwoody Airline Services, a small Midlands-based ag

Rising electricity demand and a shortage of low-sulfur oil supplies from Southeast Asian oil-produci

Re-regulation is a real prospect facing the domestic airline industry if current trends continue una

What do actor Anthony Quinn, New York's Guggenheim Museum and Picasso have in common with Hawaiian h

The patent wars may be upon us. During the past few months, many software industry insiders

Pratt & Whitney has received orders and options worth up to $215 million for new jet engines from ai

NIPPON CARGO URGES END TO US SANCTIONSNippon Cargo Airlines Co. asked U.S. officials to gran

IF YOU WANTED MORE PROOF that the trade deficit will be hard to reduce this year, the Labor Departme

Surprises are few in the list of nominations for leadership in the North American branch of a United

The Port of Bremen/Bremerhaven is exploring the possibility of establishing an electronic link with

MCI Communications Corp. has unveiled a plan that allows residential phone users to make interstate

Transforming the insurance industry's electronic language to match global standards may not be so to

The Port of Gulfport is entering the battle for government relief cargoes. Effective today,

XEROX OFFERS 'QUIETEST' OF RIBBON TYPEWRITERSXerox Corp. chose National Secretary's Day to u

Dockworkers vowed to continue a nationwide strike blocking the daily flow of $200 million in trade t

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Back in the mid-1970s when Robert Poole Jr. was developing the notion of private enterprise being ab

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Air freight rates for export shipments to Asia probably are heading up across the board. Som

Port directors were urged Friday to anticipate rapid volume growth, larger containerships, and coord

The government in the Philippines is digging in to defend a $320 million petrochemical complex plann

For years, it has not been unusual to find Beck's beer on a Bali beach, a Mercedes-Benz on a Saudi A

The Bush administration can expect serious congressional criticism if U.S. Trade Representative Carl

The United States and Japan have reached agreement to jointly produce Japan's new FSX fighter jet, a

Buried in a package of Defense Department procurement rule changes is a cargo preference item worth

U.S. lawmakers are expected to convene this week for a fourth round of brainstorming over a bill to

President Bush said Thursday there is increasing evidence that foreign drug- traffickers are using A

WHAT IT IS: One of several legislative initiatives introduced following the nation's largest oil spi

MEXICO TRADE SURPLUS, FOREIGN RESERVES FALLMexico's trade surplus and foreign reserves regis