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If Congress requires expensive new truck safety equipment, many less-than- truckl oad carriers, earn

Conrail and Guilford Transportation Industries may be in for some major rail hauling contracts if pl

The Diamond Alkali Co., whose plant here produced Agent Orange and other dioxin-tainted herbicides b

Financing is complete on a independent power plant that will deliver discount electricity and steam

In Unocal Will Increase Acrylics, Acetate Prices, which appeared in The Journal of Commerce Dec. 23,

JAPAN'S OTSUKA BUYS PHARMAVITE CORP.Japan's Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. said it acquired Pharm

Specialty chemical handler Baytank Inc. said it will expand storage capacity 50 percent at its Houst

A California state agency in charge of promoting energy technology exports says it has had a success

CHEVRON CORP. (San Francisco) - Rodney E. Willoughby, vice president of foreign operations, will ret

Mexico by the end of the century may no longer be a major oil exporter unless new crude deposits are

CITIZENS SUSPENDS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMCitizens Energy Corp., best known for providing low cost

Will Transco Energy Co. undergo a personality change in 1989? Natural gas industry observers

Crude oil prices jumped as much as 85 cents a barrel in European spot trading Tuesday after a weeken

Dec. 27, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

A third ocean shipping rate group seeks to enter the suit challenging the Federal Maritime Commissio

AEP UNIT TO SUPPLY POWER TO NC UTILITYCOLUMBUS, Ohio - American Electric Power Co. said that

Complying with the new Coast Guard drug-testing rules will be discussed at the Jan. 19 luncheon meet

Container trades involving the Soviet Union feature steady growth, according to an official Soviet m

WHEN DISCUSSING PACIFIC RIM CONTAINER BUSINESS, don't tell George Nichols that his port is on the wr

A story headlined Brazilian Dockers Accept 10 percent Pay Offer, End Strike in The Journal of Commer

COLUMBUS BEGINS SERVICE TO NUKU'ALOFAJERSEY CITY, N.J. - Columbus Line Inc. said it has inau

Ciudad de Buenaventura is a new 17,000-ton multipurpose vessel launched by Flota Mercante Grancolomb

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A U.S. Navy officer warned Tuesday that underwater mines laid by Iran and Iraq may be adrift in the

The St. Lawrence Seaway cleared its last vessel and closed the 1988 navigation season on schedule.

A Maritime Advisory Exchange has been established with the support of several international shipping

The Federal Maritime Commission rejected a complaint by A/S Ivarans Rederi against the Brazil-U.S. s

Shipbuilding costs in Europe are becoming more competitive with those in the Far East, the EC Commis

Without much notice, the United States is developing two separate Coast Guards. One is the h

U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh is considering prosecution in Mission Insurance Co.'s in

The author of insurance rate-slashing Proposition 103 Tuesday released what he said was an industry

Four years after the Bhopal gas disaster killed more than 3,300 people in the world's worst industri

AIR POLLUTION SUIT LARGEST FILED IN JAPANA group has filed suit demanding about $94.3 millio

The firm selected by the Pentagon to demonstrate a model for overhauling the military's troubled hea

Fairly soon, the car rental industry simply may stop debating whether its customers should be offere

NOKIA CORP. (Basking Ridge, N.J.) - Simo Vuorilehto was named chief executive of the Nokia Group and

We're driving through the arid bush of Tsavo National Park in Eastern Kenya. Suddenly we hear someth

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Paradyne Corp., a maker of dat

After a decade of rising prosperity China is confronted by one of the toughest crises it has faced u