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Australian consumers embarked on a post-Christmas shopping spree in January that defied expectations

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Southampton, one of Britain's top containerports, expects traffic to grow by around 15 percent next

The container shipping industry should be able to weather the next two years relatively well despite

More containers of cargo moved through the Port of Hampton Roads in January than in any other month

BEST BOOSTS RATING OF LIBERTY MUTUALOLDWICK, N.J. - A.M. Best Co. raised the Boston-

The number of ships around the world registered under Liberia's flag is at an all-time high despite

FOSS MARITIME CO. (Seattle) - The tug and barge outfit announced changes to enhance its sales struct

PRUDENTIAL REPORTS LOSS OF $1.2 BILLIONPHILADELPHIA - Prudential Insurance Corp. of

The privatization of state-run pension systems throughout Latin America will be a boon for foreign i

The 5,539-deadweight-metric-ton chemical tanker Vinta, which was towed to Singapore in November foll

NCM Credit Insurance Ltd. wants a meeting with Karel Van Miert, the European Union's competition com

COAST GUARD CUTTER CATCHES DRUG SHIPMENTNEW YORK - A Governors Island-based Coast Gu

The state's chief insurance regulator said Wednesday that he would step down March 15 to take a job

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Six towboat captains, a cargo company and a retired executive have pleaded innocent to federal charg

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Rapid growth in the cruise, cargo and airline businesses is boosting traffic and straining capacity

An officer in Japan's coast guard died of a sudden brain hemorrhage after working nearly round-the-c

The Port of Seattle is buying a radio station, but it has no plans to get into the music business.

Alfa Corp., a publicly held financial-services holding company, has been assigned a "Prime-1" rating

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development arranged a 51 million- deutsche mark ($35 milli

Just as the U.S. finally puts a program of ship financing in place with the potential to make domest

The on-again-off-again romance between the Czech Republic's two largest oil refineries and a group o

Stung by the deaths of two members during the first weeks of 1995, the Brotherhood of Railway Signal

The stronger national economy predicted by both the government and Wall Street for 1995 also bodes w

The cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach scored an important victory Thursday when a Superior Court

The Federal Railroad Administration Thursday offered proposed rule changes for rail-highway crossing

President Clinton's proposed $2.3 billion cut in transportation infrastructure spending is "mild" co

A new national conference to represent transporters of hazardous, radioactive and industrial waste w

ANOTHER SHAREHOLDER SUES MORRISON KNUDSENBOISE, Idaho - Another shareholder is suing

China has won $675 million in World Bank loans for two major energy projects in Sichuan and Zhejiang

Four or five more wells will be drilled this year by Texaco Inc. in the East China Sea, despite a di

China said Thursday it plans to develop five large open-cut coal mines in Inner Mongolia during the

Electricite de France, once of the world's largest electricity producers, has reported net income of

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Kazakhstan's Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field, one of the largest in the world, was at the

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE REMAINS IN TRADE SLUMPCHICAGO - Slow volume continued at the