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The port of Oakland said it hopes to start on a major dredging project within a year. Oaklan

Active International Shippers' Association Inc. and Freight-Savers Shipping Co. settled their servic

Los Angeles Voters Want Less GrowthVoters in sprawling Los Angeles and two tiny San Diego Co

Japan's continuing economic slump due to the strong yen has had an adverse effect on manufacturing a

US-China Jeep Plant Will Export This YearPeking Jeep Corp., a joint venture between a Chines

Jacksonville voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum that would have created a tax district for

Dredging to deepen the outbound ship channel in Hampton Roads from 45 to 50 feet could begin as ear

A marine archaeologist has a good chance of winning a permit to hunt for a treasure-loaded 16th cent

GATEWAY TO CHINA: Hong Kong may be even more important now and in the future as an entrepot for Chin

Coalition to Study Generating CapacityANDOVER, Mass. - A newly formed coalition of business,

The Port of Houston Authority plans to streamline its internal computer information network in a mov

One suspects it must end someday, that one of these days the severe space restrictions at the port o

Four new locomotives were transported recently from New York to Colombia by Flota Mercante Grancolom

Werner Dollinger, Bonn's minister for transport and traffic, and W.I. Tikhonov, the Soviet acting mi

A National Labor Relations Board lawyer said a secondary boycott dispute between the International L

The United States should insist that U.S.-flag ships share in the fast- growing trade of automobile

In Massachusetts, a farmer hooked up with a grocery store chain to promote his carrots on television

Upcoming negotiations between coal producers and the United Mine Workers of America will be a major

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials expect to order 24 nuclear power reactors to adopt what they

Australian wheat exports should total 14.0 million metric tons in the 1986-87 (October-September) ma

Union Carbide Corp. announced a $2.5 billion tender offer as the first step in a recapitalization pl

A first shipment of Indonesian liquefied natural gas has arrived in South Korea, coinciding with the

Monsanto Develops Technology ST. LOUIS - Monsanto Chemical Co. formally announced that the t

EC Seen Likely to Set Beef Export RecordThe EC is likely to set a new beef export record wit

Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. is offering to sell selective, non-strategic business units from its Chemica

The Soviet Union renewed an offer to sell India nuclear power plants of up to 1,000 megawatts on at

Half a dozen Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors began a two-week probe of alleged drug and alc

Managing a financially sound reinsurance program is getting to be a big business. Jack Hughe

Riverside Hikes Bicarbonate Prices Riverside Products Corp. is raising its price of sodium b

Union Texas Petroleum reported a net loss of $32.4 million on $275 million inrevenues for th

The Marathon Oil subsidiary of USX Corp. decided to stop its financial support for educational insti

The International Tin Council plans to resist an attempt by tin brokers to wind it up in a U.K. cour

The Israeli government awarded a permit for oil and natural gas exploration on about 1 million acres

Continued weakness in corn prices and overall strength in hog prices have pushed the hog-corn ratio

Soviet Premier Nikolai I. Ryzhkov outlined an ambitious plan to drastically increase nuclear power p

Prices gained slightly on the spot heating oil and gasoline markets this week, but trading continued

Hamilton Attributes Loss To Falling Prices, OutputHamilton Oil Corp. reported a third quarte

Amid much uncertainty as to the immediate future, the port of Miami welcomed a 3.1 percent gain in c

Zinc prices are poised to slide after news that workers at Noranda Mines Ltd.'s Valleyfield zinc pla

Local investors have paid C$110 million to buy western Canada's largest towboat company, which is op