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As waterfront property becomes less available and more costly, ports attempt to use the land they ha

Airplanes are somewhat like people. They age, they wear, they weaken. As a result of thousan

For two months, American Airlines and city aviation officials scrambled toput together facil

Newly industrialized countries and developing nations are facing yet another barrier to prosperity:

American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and US Sprint Communications Co. have been awarded contracts by t

A U.S. district court judge will not stop a Military Sealift Command contract with Sea-Land Service

GULF COAST SHIPBUILDERS AND OCEAN CARRIERS told a public hearing before the president's Commission o

When London-based STC Submarine Systems Inc. earlier this year needed a site on the West Coast to bu

A fresh wave of strikes that threatened to plunge Yugoslavia into a new round of labor unrest was te

HIGH COURT BLOCKS PLESSEY TAKEOVER BIDThe High Court on Thursday temporarily blocked General

Thurs., Dec. 8, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U

China's anti-inflation drive has not stopped its economic reform program, a top Chinese official sai

Greece's Heracles Cement Co. is scouting the market for 440,000 metric tons of steam coal, according

United Airlines and other air carriers serving Chicago's O'Hare International Airport can meet start

CMB Transport, Belgium's leading shipping group, has become a major player on the trade lanes betwee

The American Trucking Associations launched a $1 million information programaimed at increasing the

Maine Maritime Academy Open House. Dec. 10. Open house sponsored by academy's admissions office to o

Americans plan to spend more on Christmas gifts this year than in 1987 as consumer confidence runs h

Legislation to eliminate gender-based rating probably will soon be introduced in the Iowa Legislatur

In years past, Saturday would be drop-dead day at the Right Start catalog house, a California outfit

AS THE GLOBE RACES TOWARD 1989 (at least it seems that way), futures analysts are beginning to make

PANHANDLE TO SELL OFF COAL MINING INTERESTSPanhandle Eastern Corp. will sell its remaining c

DATA DISPATCH, INTIS SET DISTRIBUTION ACCORDMcLEAN, Va.- Data Dispatch Corp. has reached an

Conflo Lines, an ocean freight consolidator, is offering a bi-weekly consolidation service from New

WHAT IT IS: It is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's long-range plan, released in September,

As many as 149 petrochemical expansion and construction projects worth some $5.5 billion are expecte

Production of plastic resins totaled 4.277 billion pounds in September,up approximately 3.7 percent

Greek shipowners want the government to take action against sixEuropean Community nations whose carg

Verolme do Brasil SA, the leading Brazilian shipbuilder, announced a change of ownership and two new

Insurance companies doing business in California said they were moderately pleased with the state Su

The U.S. dollar declined Thursday in quiet, but choppy trading. The dollar slid as some big

Jordan has banned imports of olive oil from the Israeli-occupied West Bank in an apparent power stru

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

Opposition members threatened Thursday to boycott parliament unless Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi

FIERCE STORM HEADING FOR BANGLADESH COASTDACCA, Bangladesh - Still picking up the pieces aft

Pepsico Inc. signed contracts allowing it to expand its capacity in the Soviet Union by five or sixf

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

A declaration on international trade in services was worked out in Montreal by the assembled trade m

DUTCH TRY TO LOCATE 9 CHEMICAL CONTAINERSTHE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch coast guard Wedn