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Shippers must redouble efforts to help railroads stem a rising tide of legislatively mandated operat

Barges dumping sludge in the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey have until May 31 to install "silver boxe

Rep. Fortney Pete" Stark, D-Calif., said he will introduce a bill to deny tax benefits for buildings

High-seas seizures of cocaine by the Coast Guard more than doubled from 1986 to 1987, and the Miami-

A National Maritime Union dissident says he'll sue if union officials don't act by Feb. 12 to call a

1374.5 (Jan. 14) Previous day - 1369.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

A Finnish businessman, stuck with 350,000 bottles of brandy from the Soviet republic of Georgia that

Bankers are getting tired of waiting for the government to deregulate their industry. So they're doi

Federal transportation safety officials want restrictions on news media helicopters, which they say

A partial merger between a U.S. drug manufacturer and its Brazilian counterpart has all the trapping

Senator Line, the fledgling round-the-world container line that has shunned the International Longsh

Trade frictions continue to plague U.S.-Japanese relations, despite an effort by Japanese Prime Mini

Rate Bureaus Propose 4 percent Freight Rate BoostLOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Central and Southern

NY Stock Exchange Curbs Program TradingNEW YORK - The New York Stock Exchange said it would

Microgenesys Expands AIDS Vaccine TestingWEST HAVEN, Conn. - Microgenesys Inc. has received

Siemens Reorganizes Operations in USSiemens has reorganized the U.S. activities of its KWU G

Egypt Reduces Prices For Crude ExportsEgypt reduced official selling prices for crude oil by

The heavy truck industry rolled across the finish line of 1987 like a red-hot engine ready for a vic

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Claris Corp., a subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc., is entering the international computer market wit

War-Risk Rates Eased In the Persian GulfMarine insurers have marginally reduced the addition

Trucking industry earnings should rebound this year from their punishing 1987 lows, but unsettled fr

Some foreign investors in Rolls-Royce PLC, the airplane engine maker, are going to be forced by the

NY-Quebec Pact Aims At Canadian ScofflawsNew York Gov. Mario Cuomo and Quebec Prime Minister

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

My name's Tommy, not Swami. That was the snappy and accurate retort from one Teamsters offic

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Adoption of the International Cocoa Organization's stock withholding program stalled after the Ivory

THE MOMENT WENT ON and on until the silence was almost startling, and the lack of an answer undersco

Soviet-made wheeled excavators powered by General Motors Corp. engines will roll into the United Sta

An Argentine delegation led by Finance Minister Mario Brodersohn met with Treasury Secretary James A

Michael J. Kimball, resident representative in Nagoya for Japan's Brother International Corp., repor

EC Plan Would Give Banks Border FreedomBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community Wednesday

GM Reverses Denials On Closure of PlantMcCOOK, Ill. - Despite earlier denials that it planne

Bilspedition AB, the biggest trucking and forwarding organization in Scandinavia, has taken over the

Oil that leaked from a factory into a tributary of the Moscow River has tainted the city's water sup

Plans by Distrigas of Massachusetts Corp. to bring Algerian liquefied natural gas into Boston appear

Montana Power Co. and Nalco Chemical Co. are researching ways the utility can significantly cut its

Southern Co. Services Inc. said it bought spot coal for three Florida power plants, and a Louisville

Aetna Life & Casualty Co. is a party to the sweetened offer that American Home Products Corp. here h