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Marine underwriters were told Thursday they face a new type of risk owing to the greatly increased a

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced that cash settlement in the feeder cattle futures contract

NMC Plans Luncheon Sept. 25 in BostonTwo ocean steamship conference executives are scheduled

The Virginia Port Authority announced that the newly organized Japanese shipping consortium has chos

The recovery of the U.S. merchant marine fleet depends on the active support of government and comme

Firefighters Thursday extinguished the fire that raged on the Kuwaiti supertanker Al-Funtas for 30 h

A commercial salvage effort was under way Thursday to clean up the residue of 70,000 gallons of gaso

Round-the-world yachtsman Chay Blyth and airline tycoon Richard Branson unveiled plans Tuesday to co

With approval of a $15,000 feasibility study, the port of Houston has moved closer to development of

Is William F. Connell or Albert L. Bossier head of Avondale Industries Inc. ? Is the company's headq

Vessel operators calling at Hampton Roads can transmit ship manifests to the U.S. Customs Service el

Burlington Northern Railroad is selling one of its branch lines to a private low-cost railroad that

Sea-Land Corp. announced a further step in the restructuring of its principal operating unit, Sea-La

Southern California Edison Co. has joined with at least 13 other utilities extending from Oregon to

U.S. cotton exports could set a new record this fiscal year, according to port of Oakland cargo anal

The Oakland Port Commission approved a five-year terminal agreement with Associated Container Transp

Salvagers have recovered the last of a shipment of Soviet gold destined to pay for U.S. arms in Worl

The Delaware River Port Authority has moved closer to defining its role in a plan to unify port ope

The new tax bill awaiting final passage in Congress makes vast changes in pension law without decid

Barber Blue Names HjeldeChief of UnitHans J. Hjelde, veteran Norwegian shipping exec

The Federal Maritime Commission disclosed that three independent foreign freight forwarders lost the

International Business Machines Corp. announced new software tools for managers of computer network

The U.S. economy grew at a minuscule annual rate of 0.6 percent from April through June, the worst p

THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD, to use its own cliche, may not be taking away the punchbowl just as the p

Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said a trade bill may be passed

GENERAL NEWSThe U.S. economy grew at a minuscule annual rate of 0.6 percent from April throu

A myriad of Electronic Data Interchange standards poses the biggest obstacle to widespread acceptanc

The following are the results of Thursday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge frei

A team from the International Monetary Fund has quietly arrived in Argentina to collect data for app

GENERAL NEWSThe U.S. economy grew at a minuscule annual rate of 0.6 percent from April throu

For the week ended Sept. 6, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Puerto Rican businessmen are studying just over 100 proposed ventures for production sharing with en

And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the air again. All summer long the trave

Northwest Employees Facing LayoffsNorthwest Airlines is laying off nearly 800employees and f

Provision Approved MANILA, Philippines - A panel drafting a new constitution approved a prov

US-S. Korean Talks SEOUL, South Korea - Trade missions from eight U.S. states are scheduled

World drug traffickers, under pressure in the United States, are dumping cocaine and heroin into Eur

Small companies that want to export should hire someone who speaks a second language, expand its ser

They call it a dromedary dairy, and its owners hope the camel milk it produces will help the creatu

Australian brewers Elders IXL announced it bought courage, one of the best- known names in British b