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Peabody Coal Co. is carving a niche in a Japanese market some have thought out of reach to U.S. comp

World Trade Institute. Seminar on petroleum tankship operations. Dec. 7-10 at One World Trade Cente

Legislation requiring insurance companies to report massive amounts of data is appearing like brush

IT'S GOING TO BE a softer Christmas, was how economist David Wyss of Data Resources Inc. summed up t

Thanks to heavy advance staff work, conferees from the Senate and the House needed less than two hou

"Very serious" preparations are under way for possibly calling another meeting of the Group of Seven

Chinese Sell Rights To Use Tract of LandA real estate company in Shenzhen, south China, has

The Federal Maritime Commission has called upon member shipping companies in the TransPacific Westbo

Mobil Affiliate Makes Natural Gas DiscoveryMobil Oil Corp.'s Norwegian affiliate made a sign

Union Carbide Corp.'s chairman said the gas leak that killed thousands in Bhopal three years ago thi

Standard Alaska Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of British Petroleum, said it is dropping its prices for

Wider use of methanol, cleaner-burning than gasoline, will play a key role in efforts to reduce air

Hamburg-Sud and Deutsche Afrika-Linien, the nation's second- and third- largest shipping lines, resp

A jump in interest rates and higher operating costs could signal tough times ahead for the nation's

The U.S. economy will grow at a slower rate next year, three economists predicted this week, but onl

Britain's Civil Avi ation Authority (CAA) will have the final say on whether Scandinavian Airlines S

A crane barge intended to remove a container of hazardous chemicals from a grounded feeder barge was

Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. will buy ailing E.F. Hutton Group Inc. in a $1 billion deal that will

A surge in demand for transportation equipment, particularly aircraft and automobiles, lifted new or

30,000 Merino Sheep Perish in AustraliaMELBOURNE, Australia - More than 30,000 valuable meri

Illegal ocean polluters could find themselves fingered by an eye in the sky under a New Jersey senat

Ciba- Geigy Corp. has challenged all 12 municipal ocean dischargers of treated wastewater along the

Rhone-Poulenc Seals Stauffer PurchaseRhone-Poulenc Inc. completed its purchase of the basic

The U.S.-Canada bilateral trade accord will lead to increased U.S. imports of Canadian natural gas a

Thanksgiving week saw gasoline prices reverse their trends of a week earlier, according to the New Y

Under normal circumstances, no motor builder would dream of hitting an engine in a main bearing with

The next chairman of Lloyd's of London, Murray Lawrence, said he will run the insurance market as a

Frank B. Hall & Co. Inc. and Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. have settled a $150 million lawsuit the N

Lightweight Ladder Easy to Carry, StoreA Japanese company has designed a lightweight, knock-

First Union Corp., a bank holding company, merged three recently acquired customs brokers into a sin

As port authority managers plan for further expansion of facilities they often find their once state

Federal Railroad Administrator John H. Riley Thursday called officials of strike-bound Springfield T

Northeastern and southern railroads dominate many of Amstar Corp.'s sugar transportation markets, al

Next week's summit meeting could lead to a renewal of some sort of maritime relations between this c

British Steel Corp.'s Thursday announcement that its profits for the first half of its current finan

The Federal Maritime Commission has published its proposed rules for some shipping agreements coveri

Farm Biotechnology Takes Root in USU.S. farm products with potential biotechnology applicati

Texaco Inc. was granted another 40 days to file a plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and com

December 3, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

U.S. businesses are going to have get off their paper treadmill if they want to survive in an increa