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Despite its vast resources and massive population, China will not be able to industrialize in the sa

Back when James Dwyer was executive director at the Port of Seattle, he used to talk about getting o

NORTH AMERICA 10th American International Fur Fair. March 30-April 2. Las Vegas Convention C

COMMERCE SAYS CHINA IS DUMPING HEADWEARThe Commerce Department said it has made a final dete

Have the smaller crew sizes on huge containerships created new safety problems? That is a question b

There's always office space available on Los Angeles' prestigious Wilshire Boulevard for those who h

The chairman of the House Small Business Committee gained the support of more than 250 members of Co

An Assembly panel Monday voted to subpoena two former members of the Joint Underwriting Association

CHUBB TO MAIL CHECKS TO SETTLE DROUGHT CASECINCINNATI- The first round of checks go out Thur

An appeals court has denied a widow's claim for $100,000 in life insurance, saying it couldn't creat

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, by a vote of 194 to 3, has passed and sent to the Senate

RETAIL PRICE INFLATION PUT AT 7.8 PERCENT IN BRITAINU.K. retail price inflation was 7.8 perc

Mike Hammer is the kind of American that Taiwan's trade promotion authorities would love to see more

DURABLE GOODS ORDERS SEEN UP IN FEBRUARYU.S. durable goods orders will rise 0.8 percent in F

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Government leaders Tuesday said they were slapping new taxes on China's thriving private sector and

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Martha Seger Tuesday said she "was pleased" that the U.S. Consumer Price

Hewlett-Packard Co., announced an agreement Tuesday to sell its South African sales subsidiary becau

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For days the inflation fear had built up, pushing the dollar higher and stocks lower. After

The Supreme Court has endorsed mandatory drug testing for railroad operating personnel and for some

The U.S. government has told consumers that it's safe to eat grapes from Chile. But the U.S.

Three leading European shipyards said Tuesday they will bid jointly for upcoming containership contr

The four principal carrier rate-making groups serving the trans-Pacific containership market have fi

United Parcel Service is planning to build a new $150 million sorting hub here to handle the package

Citing a report that found the Superfund program ripe for a contracting scandal, a House panel chair

General Mills Inc. and Navistar International Corp. did not underpay freight bills tendered by a now

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to decide a narrow, but potentially significant, point of environmen

RAIL WORKERS IN NY BARRED FROM STRIKINGNEW YORK - A federal judge has barred workers at four

RAILROADS STILL ARE LOOKING FOR A SILVER STAKE to drive through the heart of the coal slurry pipelin

AMERICAN PRESIDENT COS. (Oakland, Calif.) - Michael Diaz was appointed president of American Preside

CNW Corp. and an investment group that is trying to take it over have traded charges and barbs over

POLYESTER Hoechst Celanese Corp.'s Textile Fibers Group, New York, announced price increases

Jeffboat Co.'s experience during the past decade provides a snapshot of what happened to yards acros

Dockworkers in Genoa are bent on continuing the two-month-old port strike, in spite of an agreement

France's Elf Aquitaine group stepped forward Monday as a white knight in Pennwalt Corp.'s takeover b

J. Ron Brinson, port president and chief executive officer of the Port of New Orleans, has said than

The maritime industry is learning to live with the Department of Transportation 's mandatory drug-te

When Israel Electric Corp.'s new power station at Ashkelon goes on line in October, the country will

A three-way joint venture is investing M$150 million (US$58 million) in Malaysia's first plant to pr