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The two-year debate over public access to government maritime tariff information in the electronic a

DELAWARE & HUDSON shippers are wary as events continue unfolding around the troubled rail line.<

Two Danish car and passenger ferries collided Thursday off the central island of Funen, killing one

TRANSPORTATION CHIEF TO ADDRESS RAIL GROUPSecretary of Transportation Sam Skinner will trave

Lloyd Brasileiro, Brazil's financially troubled public general cargo carrier, was operating under a

A controversial Chicago investors group made an offer to acquire P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc.

WILLIAMS TO BUY FIBER-OPTICS FIRMTULSA, Okla. - In a deal that would be worth $365 million,

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has no plans to speak at a conference on Electronic Data Inte

The container industry doesn't want to get boxed in when it comes to electronic data interchange.

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Conrail said it has completed a $33 million program to raise vertical clearance to 19-feet, 4-inches

Discount coffee, sold at one-third or less of the official price, threatens to destabilize the commo

LICHT SEES LOWERING OF '88-89 SUGAR STOCKSSugar stocks at the end of 1988-89 (September-Augu

The start of what was to have been a quiet year for insurance legislation was loudly interrupted as

I GUESS WHEN YOU GOT IT, spend it. California voters last fall were shocked to hear that var

New Superfund reporting requirements may help insurers deal with toxic chemical accidents, but they

For the first time in more than 100 years, Australia has a new sales leader in the life insurance in

A state court ruled against Volkswagen of America Inc. Wednesday in a major liability case, reinstat

Rep. John M. Perzel, R-Phila., said last week that he had "made a mistake" by representing as his ow

A Wisconsin state legislator has introduced a bill that would limit the ability of insurers to use r

Facing the uncertainties of the state's insurer insolvency problem, independent insurance agents in

This was a big week for insurance-related bills in New Jersey. Bills dealing with auto insur

State Farm Insurance Co. is again testing the waters for federal no-fault automobile insurance legis

The New York Chapter of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters will hold its monthly meeting t

Independent Air Corp. carried $6 million of hull insurance and $250 million of liability insurance o

One of Canada's leading banks has found a way of getting involved in insurance activity without viol

LONDON INSURERS EASE GULF WAR-RISK RATESAfter seven years of the Iran-Iraq war, London's mar

W. GERMANY'S PRICES ROSE 1.2 PERCENT IN 1988BONN, West Germany - West German consumer prices

Balancing the U.S. budget might roughly halve the U.S. trade deficit, two economists suggested Thurs

Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, Democratic chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said T

New claims for state unemployment insurance benefits were made by 300,000 people during the week end

West Germany's trade surplus widened in December, pushing the 1988 trade surplus to 128 billion deut

The head of a major U.S. multinational concern has called on his peers to rally behind another effor

European Community member countries show signs of considering easing restrictions on imports from Ja

A POLICY DRIFT, a veritable black hole of long-term direction, seems to be dominating various crucia

The U.S. economy will continue to expand this year but slower than in 1988 while inflation and the u

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Domestic automakers were scheduled to produce 242,951 cars and light trucks this week, down from las