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For the week ended Feb. 25, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

The Port of Tampa, toting an ambitious $108 million five-year improvement plan, is seeking financial

When Alaska Airlines first proposed scheduled flights between Alaska and the Soviet Union, there was

Official year-end figures appear to substantiate the fact the China's insurance business is gaining

After 27 unsuccessful attempts to make auto insurance mandatory, committees in the Washington state

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A hectic round of meetings begins this week in a final effort to revive multilateral trade liberaliz

AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK LTD. (New York) - Robert F. Smith will step down on or before July 1 as chairm

BUSH URGED TO JOIN EC IN PHASING OUT CFCSA senior U.S. official is urging President Bush to

PHELPS DODGE CORP. (Phoenix) - Douglas C. Yearley, executive vice president of Phelps Dodge Corp. an

Conspicuously absent from this year's Speednews Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference in Los Angele

SUGAR FROM AUSTRALIA TO CHINA VIA ITALY?SYDNEY, Australia - An Italian brokerage firm has ha

What works better: fishing hooks or a net? That, in effect, is the question chemical compani

The casket makers of western Canada, long cozily protected by tariffs on imports, face crushing comp

Ocean shipping lines, and not truckers, should be the ones responsible for stopping the movement of

Acceptance Insurance Holdings Inc. and KCP Holding Co., announced Friday that they have reached a "p

FACTORY ORDERS FELL 1.3 PERCENT IN JANUARYOrders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods dr

The International Swap Dealers Association, at its annual meeting in Paris last week, adopted the fi

California's export crops, such as rice and cotton, are facing major cuts in acreage because of drou

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

Currency traders and economists believe the dollar will continue to trade in a range until there is

P&O AGREES TO BUY DISTRIBUTION COMPANYPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., the U.K.'s

The best informed businessman might be surprised to learn that Dow Chemical Co. has its foot in the

Abu Dhabi's National Oil Co. delegation told Japanese oil companies last week that it will not cut i

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Within six weeks, the U.S. Postal Service will decide whether to renew a $95.5 million annual contra

Tandy Corp., Digital Equipment Corp. and three software companies recently announced a software prod

A Stanford University computer scientist and a philosopher are developing the university's first cou

Having built a trade surplus of over $14 billion, South Korea is now taking steps to open its domest

EC URGES PATIENCE IN CHINA'S GATT BIDBRUSSELS, Belgium - China will have to be patient in it

The European Commission announced that it is extending its "Europartnership" plan, designed to stren

EC PROBES CHARGES OF DENIM DUMPINGBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community has opened a pr

Indonesia registered a trade surplus of US$307.9 million in December, official statistics released l

Japan's leading companies are expected to post an average 21.2 percent increase in pretax profits in

FCC WILL PRESS AHEAD ON AT&T OVERHAULWASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications

U.S. ship operators and shipbuilders are at odds over whether there is a need to clarify the standar

IMPROPER WIRING CITED IN JAPAN'S BOEING JETSFire extinguisher systems in cargo compartments

Twenty years ago, a Delta-winged wonder known as the Concorde 001 took off on its maiden flight, lif

A Chinese delegation is due in the United States later this month to tie up details of a forestry jo

There is a lot more talk than action in the chemical industry when it comes to electronic data inter