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Growing plastics use in packaging, construction and transportation is fueling the demand for plastic

Pony Express riders carrying souvenir letters and keeping history alive swept through here this week

BOC Group Inc.'s Airco Gases recently won two onsite supply contracts with Micron Technology Inc., o

CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (Washington) - Robert C. Forney, an executive vice president of E

The Khian Sea and its cargo of Philadelphia incinerator ash are reported to be sailing to West Afric

The Railway Labor Executives' Association charged that Federal Railroad Administrator John Riley has

The Teamsters union and an employer group representing some 50 small and regional trucking companies

Rail carloadings increased in May, giving further evidence the manufacturing sector of the economy c

Talks aimed at resolving the continuing tangle at the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad by clearing th

A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission administrative law judge has recommended that the proposed $2

CSX Corp. has adopted a new share purchase rights plan. With each share ofCSX stock purchase

South Korea's national steel company, Pohang Iron & Steel Co., has sold its only U.S. coking coal pr

Oil prices continued a slide Monday that began more than a week ago as the Organization of Exporting

June 13, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

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ARIZ., CALIF. UTILITIES ANNOUNCE MERGER PLANTuscon Electric Power and San Diego Gas & Electr

At the midpoint of its transition to operating its own airline, United Parcel Service Inc. thinks it

The Malaysian state energy monopoly Petronas, which just signed a new exploration contract, says it

NORTHWEST ACCEPTS TRANSPORT CERTIFICATENorthwest Pipeline Corp. said it has accepted an Orde

Scandinavian Airlines System has ordered 61 McDonnell Douglas MD-80s to replace the airline's curren

Sputtering Pan Am Corp. better brace for jarring head winds from its three holdout unions. T

Austria's Lauda Air is flying into and out of Australia once a week, but no frills operator Virgin A

A dramatic accident involving a Boeing 737 airplane has forced the nation's airline industry to chal

The United States is unlikely to adopt a national maritime policy in the next couple of years in spi

Suffolk County Executive Patrick Halpin vetoed legislation Friday that would have made the county th

COCOM EXPECTED TO OK PLANE SALES TO E. BLOCThe export control agency Cocom should approve th

Electronic data interchange is a TV star. Actually, co-star is more like it. The technology

GUAM RATE AGREEMENT RESCINDS RATE HIKESThe Guam Rate Agreement said it met in San Francisco

HAVEN'T THEY HAD enough of each other? That's the question some might ask about the 12 membe

IBM GETS HIGH MARKS IN MAGAZINE SURVEYComputer chiefs at some of the nation's biggest compan

Computer chip makers, as thirsty as cattle men and farmers in the deepening drought, say they'll swa

GOOD TIMING: Last Tuesday's annual fund-raising dinner for the Seamen's Church Institute of New York

The name of Aristomenis Karageorgis, head of the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners,

A New York City Council subcommittee voted unanimously Monday to recommend to the full city council

The U.S. maritime industry has become used to the pabulum of protectionist government policies over

TRAILER TRAIN TO CUT EQUIPMENT RATES 7.8 PERCENTTrailer Train Co. said it is reducing its ov

CSX Transportation believes a new repair shop in western Maryland will help to improve turnaround ti

Conrail said it's received a rating of AA- from Standard & Poor's Corp. and a rating of A1 from Mood

Revelations that North Atlantic conference carriers will offer two distinct rates for wine and spiri

Daily Index Textiles Metals Misc.Smoothedpercent Change, 6.33