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In an attempt to gain a marketing edge, Volvo GM Canada Heavy Truck Corp. of Milton, Ontario, has be

DIGITAL INTRODUCES NEW MINICOMPUTERSMARLBORO, Mass. - Digital Equipment Corp. has two new mi

The Belgian Port of Antwerp is experimenting with a set of eight electronic messages between three c

Such controversial proposals as double-decking the Ventura Freeway, restricting lanes to car pools a

100,000 RAIL WORKERS FACE TESTING FOR DRUGSSALT LAKE CITY - The Federal Railroad Administrat

For the week ended Oct. 15, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Happy days are here again for the trucking industry - sort of. After a disastrous 1987, prof

Meredith S. Buel, a special assistant to the chairman of the National Mediation Board and a longtime

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The Federal Maritime Commission has offered additional guidance on its proposed rules for using the

Willem Brinkman, chairman of the North Europe-U.S. Atlantic Conference, has resigned. David

Sean Burke, the newly named president of Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Atlantic Division, said he plans t

The All India Shippers' Council is urging the government to ratify the 1978 United Nations Conventio

Farrell Lines Inc. may have to find a new home for 57 barges it has been storing in San Francisco Ba

After a two-year freeze of its transit tolls for most commercial ships, the Suez Canal Authority ann

Waterman Marine Corp. has signed a definitive agreement with International Shipholding Corp. to sell

The Maritime Administration has agreed to allow Ocean Haulers Ltd., Houston, to sell the 5,520-deadw

The tire track insignia of the Port of Seattle could replace the giant British flag on the exterior

The Port of San Francisco is making a second try at getting approval to hire outside consultants for

Maritime imports and exports through the Port of Hong Kong increased sharply in the second quarter o

A Belgian shipping company trading between Mexico and the Indian subcontinent is expanding its servi

The headline of a story on Page 3B of the Oct. 26 edition of The Journal of Commerce should have sta

The 50,000-member National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, AFL-CIO, Thursday endorsed Vice

As expected, the Port Everglades Authority in Florida hired long-time employee Joel Alesi as executi

PEUGEOT MOTORS SHIFTS EAST COAST ENTRY PORTPeugeot Motors of America has chosen the Narragan

Saudi Basic Industries Corp.'s National Chemical Fertilizer Co. has begun work on an expansion proje

North American potash production rose in August by nearly 35 percent to 491,234 short tons of K2O co

M&T CHEMICALS BOOSTS PRICESRAHWAY, N.J. - M&T Chemicals Inc. announced a list price increase

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

A Mexican mite is being tested against the Colorado potato beetle that alsodevastates tomato

China has decided to monopolize by Jan. 1 the importation and domestic marketing of fertilizers, pes

Six states have adopted laws requiring that recycling codes be stamped on plastic bottles, and two o

DEXTER CORP. (Windsor Locks, Conn.) - R. Barry Gettins was named president of the Dexter Nonwovens d

A. SCHULMAN REPORTS 46 PERCENT RISE IN INCOMEAKRON, Ohio - A. Schulman Inc. reported net inc

HENKEL SEEKS TO ADD ITALIAN DETERGENT FIRMFRANKFURT, West Germany - Henkel KGaA, the fourth-

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

DIGITAL PLANS TO BUY 8 PERCENT OF ITS OWN STOCKBOSTON - Digital Equipment Corp., the minicom

Transporting Dangerous Goods By Air, two-day seminar, Nov. 1-2. Viscount Hotel, San Diego, Calif. Co

Fiscal year 1988 statistics for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach illustrate dramatically the