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One of the best ways to start an argument in the heavy truck industry is to ask more than one analys

France's ambassador to Kuwait, Marcel Laugel, says his country cannot reflag Kuwaiti tankers to prot

XTRA Increases Size Of Public Stock OfferBOSTON - XTRA Corp. has raised the size of a planne

The United States alone will decide how to respond to any attacks on newly U.S.-registered Kuwaiti t

Thrall Car Manufacturing Co. hopes to revolutionize the transport of automobiles with its new system

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

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Dissident Teamsters are urging union members to reject a tentative national labor pact with United P

One year after his celebrated labor confrontation with the port of Houston Authority, independent st

The United States and the European Community are on a collision course over world farm trade followi

There's nothing like going on a shopping spree when you're feeling just awful. That's what t

West Germany's Daimler-Benz AG has recalled about 65,000 of its cars sold in the United States becau

Tonight is Presidential Softball Night in Des Moines, Iowa, a time for summer play among the Democra

Poindexter Denies Misleading LegislatorsFormer National Security Adviser John Poindexter Mon

The Reagan administration's foreign aid initiatives, despite continuing world debt problems, are mak

CSX Corp. moved to integrate its railroad, trucking and steamship operations by forming an integrate

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Court decisions are making it easier for crewmen from commercial ships to sue for health problems re

Non-subsidized domestic tanker interests insist Congress barred three tankersfrom repaying t

Crane operators striking in a dispute between two unions shut down loading operations in the country

Fanfare and speeches marked the opening day of the International Longshoremen's Association 47th qu

East Germany plans to build an unspecified number of new containerships to modernize its merchant fl

The U.S. dollar continued to push higher against major foreign currencies Monday, but trading was ex

Venezuela's foreign debt problems have become a major domestic political issue. In recent we

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

Government Suspends Treasury Bill AuctionWASHINGTON - The government suspended Monday's week

The Mexican stock market, known as La Bolsa Mexicana, has surged to new highs, bringing its overall

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission soon will release proposed regulations governing the use of

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

948.0 (July 20) Previous day - 930.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in Lo

A checkered team of Brazilian debt negotiators travels to the United States today to resume talks wi

Sea-Land Service Inc. made its first formal move to enter the Hawaii/Guam- mainl and trade as a succ

The final report on the development and testing of an automatic marine telephone system for the inla

Atlantic Container Line and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are joining forces to upgr

A labor commissioner who has urged the Canadian government to scrap a containerization work rule say

The ties between agents and insurers aren't improving despite an easing of industry market condition

William F. Carroll, executive director of the Life Insurance Association of Massachusetts, announced

The European Community warned that it will take "immediate measures" if the Unit ed States moves to

Polaroid Corp. said it earned $27.3 million in the second quarter, a 13 percent jump from the same p