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It's hard to buy something if you don't know what it is. Catalogs have been one of the most

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

Conrail's new double-stack service into the Boston area has attracted a significant volume of oceanb

For the week ended March 18, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

The U.S. Commerce Department has reduced export controls and simplified the licensing process for so

PERSONAL INCOME ROSE 1 PERCENT IN FEBRUARYAmericans' personal income increased a strong 1 pe

WILL THEY or won't they? Reports coming in from California indicate the state's Supreme Cour

Barge operator Carolina Atlantic Transportation Services Inc. has begun using its own employees as d

China will boost imports of caustic soda and engineering thermoplastic this year, but its new auster

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT that energy industry planners had learned their lesson, I find out I'm wrong aga

Sentiment among freight futures traders turned weaker last week, as the March and the April futures

Price negotiations between an Iranian delegation and Japanese oil companies have become deadlocked a

British Airways hopes to begin providing freighter service from Londonto the Orient within two years

Pickets from all three locals of the International Longshoreman's Association were protesting the us

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.'s application to acquire Argonaut Line Inc. and its subsidiary, Farrell Li

NORFOLK SOUTHERN PLANS 68 TRIPS IN 15 STATESROANOKE, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp., which con

Any U.S. targeting of South Korea as a priority country for trade initiatives would be "offensive,"

HAS THE FEDERAL RESERVE TURNED away from its yearlong policy of steady interest-rate increases to da

CHINA WILL RESTORE CENTRAL PRICE CONTROLSChina said it will restore central government contr

A new job-creation scheme is the key to success in contract talks resuming here today between the na

The Bush administration is moving to install two young, comparatively inexperienced but politically

DISTRIBUTION SERVICES LTD. (Los Angeles) - Patrick L. McKeen was named sales executive in the Chicag

Philadelphia-based Rohm & Haas Co. was accused of failing to notify Warner- Lambert Co. that an ingr

This week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' price monitoring committee

Ecogen Inc. and ChemLawn Services Corp. will collaborate on the development of biological insecticid

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

CHILE DEBT BUY-BACKS TO AID FRUIT EXPORTERSSANTIAGO, Chile - The Chilean fruit industry is e

MORE TELEPHONE USERS SATISFIED WITH SERVICEWASHINGTON - Residential telephone users feel the

Harborside Refrigerated Services Inc. is moving Chilean fruit to distributors after a grape-poisonin

Deteriorating weather has forced the Argentine navy to halt efforts to clean upa fuel oil spill from

On his daily commute to work, Peter Haller would check to make sure a historic railroad roundhouse w

CBOE, REUTERS DEVELOP ELECTRONIC NETWORKThe Chicago Board Options Exchange and Reuters Holdi

Associated Container Transportation (Australia) Ltd., the shipping consortium that trades between Eu

A textile organization that aims to make U.S. industry more competitive against imports expects to m

A coalition of minority groups announced a plan to offer a $160 no-frills auto insurance policy to C

The president of the nation's largest hull underwriting organization took shipowners and marine unde

Protection and indemnity insurance is becoming a larger part of the cost of operating a ship, as som

There was a time when a commercial customer trying to speak to officials at Pratt & Whitney had abou

Oil prices finished strongly last week, especially as crude and gasoline prices continued to climb o