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Japan's oil companies, which have shunned the North Sea for over 30 years, are on the verge of acqui

ESCONDIDA MINE FINDSMORE COPPER IN ATACAMASANTIAGO, Chile - The Escondida mine has found mor

Heavy-truck sales suffered a double-digit drop in April from the record levels of a year earlier as

Profits from ''downstream'' refining activities of most U.S. oil companies should improve this year

Friday May 10, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

China's Shanghai Petrochemical plans to invest 4.7 billion yuan ($566 million) into 11 major technic

At the King Fahd Airport in Saudi Arabia, the sight is magnificent. Water streaming from a huge, gol

Senior negotiators here think that talks to establish an international trade deal on maritime servic

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Hoping to avert a shortage of pasta in grocery stores and to prevent mill shutdowns, the government

A group of U.S. lawmakers returned to the United States from meetings in Mexico this week to report

Major carriers and the United Transportation Union reached the first national agreement in the curre

Two powerful House committees are at loggerheads over new sanctions against Iran and Libya, as anger

Despite optimistic projections that a U.S.-Mexico trucking dispute could be resolved this week, it n

Negotiations toward an international telecommunications services trade pact should resume in July, D

RECENT VESSEL SALESSaleDate Vessel Year Price

May 9, 1996U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday defended its position to file an amicus brief to the

Memorabilia collectors who recently purchased coal carried on the legendary Titanic as memorabilia u

Recent studies show that human error contributes to most ship casualties. Seeking to address this pr

Precisely 127 years ago today at 12:47 p.m. local time the tracks of Union Pacific Railroad were joi

''If we can't work it out, I suspect we'll have to do our own thing and the Chinese can arrive with

Congressional Republican leaders want to use a variety of tax increases, including renewal of the ex

Key trucking groups want the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the newly formed driver leasing

The port authority here Thursday approved spending $130 million this year to attack the dredging pro

Electrons have arrived as the world's newest futures commodity, taking their place alongside pork be

New York state may become the next friendly domicile for ''captive'' insurers, if legislation propos

An official at the Norwegian union that has been staging an offshore oil workers' strike since Satur

Marine underwriters were advised Thursday to word insurance policies more carefully so as to avoid c

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A judge refused to pull the plug on Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.'s attempt to reorganize and force the

Sri Lanka's government, already battling power shortages, is now embroiled in a fight with workers o

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, May 12, '95, - May 9, '96 (a graph)(2)DA

Thursday May 9, 1996Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

As the deadline for a new maritime safety code approaches, shipowners are quickly waking up to all t

Interline partnerships among regional less-than-truckload carriers, long common in the United States

Years of increasingly ill-tempered bickering among China, Britain and Hong Kong over the change in s

Philadelphians by the hundreds are ratting on their neighbors and former spouses who have given phon

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has given Manufacturers Consolidation Service Inc. its annual Carrier Ach

Deutsche Bahn AG, Germany's national rail line, managed to deliver its cargo of nuclear waste to a c