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A Vermont official says a takeover of a deteriorated rail line owned by Guilford Transportation Indu

Marad Denies Review Of Fuel Subsidy IssueThe Maritime Administration won't review its denial

Moody's Investor's Service has downgraded from A2 to B2 the ratings of $785 million of senior subord

Olympia & York Offers To Hike SFSP StakeOlympia & York Development Ltd., launched a $245 mil

For as long as anyone along the Maine coast could remember, the mussel has been the Rodney Dangerfie

If a railroad wants to keep its customers happy, it has to speak their language - and that applies t

Scania Adds 2 Dealers To National NetworkORANGE, Conn. - Saab-Scania of America Inc. said it

Charleston's long-awaited harbor deepening will get under way next month, thanks to a cost-sharing a

Nearly eight years after their steel mill closed and they lost their jobs, 2,700 workers at the Wisc

A Persian Gulf ship repair yard says that while it does work on war-damaged tankers, the war is actu

The French Cabinet has adopted an 83 billion franc ($14 billion) program to almost double the countr

Preston Corp.'s fourth quarter earnings rose to $4.8 million, or 83 cents a share, from $604,000, or

A quote box that appeared Feb. 12 in a story about American Carriers Inc. rejecting an acquisition b

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Peter E. Rupp, chairman of Freightliner Corp. of Portland, Ore., said flatly that he has no plans to

An engineer accused of running a stop signal and driving three freight locomotives into the path of

An official Soviet maritime report says five giant container transshipment complexes have been compl

Mayor Wilson Goode and state administration officials have agreed on a plan to reorganize management

Nedlloyd, the Dutch transport and energy group, failed to secure the support of its shareholders for

As in recent years, it is probably futile to expect any major program or funding surprises in the Re

Iraq claimed its 25th air strike of the year on Iranian oil targets along the gulf coast Tuesday as

When Walter Boehnke started his family business in Aransas Pass almost 50 years ago, it was a tiny f

The Puerto Rico Treasury Department is on the verge of dropping property tax claims against Crowley

Africa runs in the blood of Tristan Vieljeux as it has for several generations in the shipping empir

Connecticut legislators will hear testimony Friday on a bill that would ban sex discrimination in in

Two years after a mandatory car seat belt law took effect in California, a wave of lawsuits across t

Daniel J. McNamara, the former president of Insurance Services Offices Inc., has joined the law firm

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the insurance rating of The Equitable Life Assurance Societ

Fred S. James Acquires Seattle BrokerageFred S. James & Co. Inc., a national insurance broke

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

Lincoln National Posts Operating Income GainFORT WAYNE, Ind. - Lincoln National Corp., repor

A fifth and final brokerage house has reached into its pocket for $3.65 million to settle allegation

The U.S. dollar drifted lower in a listless market Tuesday on profit-taking following Friday's gains

Thousands of U.S. farmers will be offered classes in futures and options trading this year in a gove

The one-week delay until Feb. 26 of Mexico's bond-for-debt exchange was needed to give banks more ti

After Ronald Reagan defeated him for re-election in 1980, President Carter told friends that his dow

Fed's Vice Chairman Favors Stronger DollarTOKYO - Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Manuel

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