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Unocal Corp. said it found what appears to be a major new natural gas field in the Mobile offshore a

Hopes for an agreement on coordinated oil production cuts between the Organization of Petroleum Expo

Petroleos Mexicanos, the state oil company, has begun marketing a new high- grade crude on the inter

June 2, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Canada Steamship Lines Inc. this week will conduct its first export coal vessel topping off operatio

Babcock & Wilcox Canada, a McDermott International Inc. subsidiary, received a contract to supply tw

Death Toll Hits 35 In W. German BlastBORKEN, West Germany - Rescue workers found 35 bodies f

Detroit Ed Reports 2nd Record-Setting DayDetroit Edison Co. said that on Wednesday, for the

Shippers National Freight Claim Council, seminar on liabilities rules and practices affecting claims

A few miles outside ancient Roman walls that once protected townsfolk from longbow-propelled arrows

Seven ethanol producers filed a $2.1 billion antitrust lawsuit in District Court on Wednesday, alleg

Brazil backtracked on its claim that exploration crews had found an oil deposit as rich as the North

U.S. Department of Energy forecasts on demand for electricity are only half as large as they ought t

DON'T BET that the Interstate Commerce Commission's plan to settle the trucking undercharge claims c

Despite the apparent availability of capital to finance purchases, rail freight car buying isn't lik

Truck Drivers Charged In Fatal Conn. CrashHARTFORD, Conn. - Two out-of-state truck drivers w

A federal court blocked a Tennessee proposal to ban heavy trucks from an interstate highway near Nas

RoadRailer hybrid rail-highway vehicles and trailer-on-flatcar/container-on- fla tcar intermodal are

New York City's vast garbage disposal system probably will break down if non- union tugboat crews ar

Five of Japan's six major shipping companies reported substantial net losses during the 12-month bus

Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey. Annual dinner. June 7. New York. Bridgewaters

GRACE INCREASES TETRASODIUM PRICELEXINGTON, Mass. - W.R. Grace & Co.'s organic chemicals div

Baltimore's bid to turn itself into a state-of-the-art cargo-handling port is meeting its ambitious

Sixteen companies that dumped nearly 24 million gallons of toxic chemicals at the Stringfellow Acid

BASF Corp.'s Chemicals division announced that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase the poly

VIKING HIKES PRICE OF SOY PRODUCTSRAHWAY, N.J. - Viking Chemical Co. is increasing the price

OCCIDENTAL SIGNS SOVIET AGREEMENTOccidental Petroleum Corp. announced the signing of an agre

U.S. research-based pharmaceutical companies have intensified efforts to develop Acquired Immune Def

Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., says the Port of Baltimore needs $28 million to continue the deepening of

The Guangdong Posts and Telecommunications Bureau of China will buy 10 million shares of Hong Kong T

Burlington Northern Inc. announced plans to spin off all of its non- transportat ion assets into a g

With seaports on both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, Colombia has natural trading ties with all r

The U.S. dollar turned mixed Thursday after its rise was stemmed when three central banks twice inte

The government will intervene to avert a strike threatened for June 22 by over 300,000 dockworkers a

The Port of Dunkirk, on the northwest French coast, is engaged in an aggressive marketing drive to w

The Inter-American Freight Conference said it will implement a terminal- handlin g charge on June 26

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

Major U.K. banks raised their base lending rates to 8 percent from 7.5 percent Thursday, two weeks a

Chicago-based entrepreneur Samuel Zell bought 20 percent of the equity of First Pacific Special Asse