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The Maine Maritime Academy says its just-started effort to raise $10 million in three years is the l

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Compagnie Generale Maritime said it and two other ship lines plan to disband the Eurandino consortiu

GATX Corp. said it earned $9 million, or 97 cents a share, on revenue of $157.7 million. This compar

Employee benefits-related legislation, an important issue in the 1988 presidential campaign, will co

Labor. Daily newspapers from Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, West Germany and Ital

Albright & Wilson America, a subsidiary of Tenneco Inc., has announced further expansions in sodium

Hopes by Malaysia of cracking the lucrative U.S. auto market have suffered a serious new blow with t

The United States and Canada have announced the names of representatives who will serve on the binat

William A. Ott, president and publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, died last Thursday of cancer.

Air Express International Corp., the nation's largest air freightforwarder, wants to play a larger r

Defining electronic data interchange is sometimes like trying to mud wrestle with a Walrus.

NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF PORTS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE & COMMERCE (New York) - Patricia Zedalis was

THIRD SEA-LAND SHIP DIVERTED FROM ITALYEDISON, N.J. - Sea-Land Service Inc. said it diverted

Many American railroads will understand the unaccustomed elation being experienced by state-owned Ma

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES (Washington) - James J. Murphy was named executive vice president of t

The January employment report to be released this Friday should provide a new short-term direction f

The rapid appreciation of the won against the U.S. dollar appears to have stalled over the past two

"GATT is dead." The distinguished audience at the World Economic Forum at this Swiss ski res

U.S.-built machine tool orders climbed again in December, closing out a year that saw a 69.5 percent

George Bush began his presidency by moving on several economic issues at once, making some deft move

Wall Street reacted warily Friday to a bid to buy all of Illinois Central Transportation Co. for $20

The European oil spot market was engulfed in bearish sentiment Friday with North Sea crude stumbling

KUWAIT DENIES CHARGE OF QUOTA VIOLATIONSKuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah

McDonnell Douglas Corp., one of the world's three major manufacturersof commercial aircraft, is proj

NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR EARNINGS WILL FALLSANTA CLARA, Calif. - National Semiconductor Corp.

The booming cellular phone industry has settled on a transmission standard for the future that shoul

Automation is gathering increasing momentum in the freight forwarding business, with key companies e

Cargo volume through the Port of Hampton Roads increased by 15 percent in 1988, according to year-en

RAIL TRAFFIC SUMMARY FOR 1988 IS AVAILABLEAtlantic Systems Inc., a New York consulting firm

Officials at Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan) and a Japanese shipyard are reportedly close to signing

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The Federal Maritime Commission has decided to delay for about a month the effective date of a capac

Are U.S. trial lawyers doing the general public an injustice in the way they operate to win multimil

California Assemblyman Pat Johnston, D-Stockton, has introduced legislation to create a state no-fau

Ocean freight forwarders in the New York and New Jersey port region, citing a surge in exports and t

The U.S. Customs Service suspended temporarily the authority of Lawrence C. Melilli of New York City

VOTAINER BEGINS NEW EUROPEAN SERVICECHARLESTON, S.C. - Votainer Consolidation Services (Sout

Port traffic in the third quarter of 1988 showed a healthy increase over the corresponding 1987 peri