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Virginia Power Authority won general approval from state regulators for the way it used rotating bla

With the licenses of almost half of U.S. nuclear power plants expiring by 2015 and a plethora of hur

CALIFORNIA LAW BANS DRILLING CLOSE TO SHORELOS ANGELES - California Gov. Pete Wilson

Evaluation, communication and training are important keys for property and casualty insurers to stre

The British government is to offer for sale its $6.15 billion stake in privatized power generators N

World coal trade is expected to total 430 million metric tons in 1994, up from 426 million tons in 1

Although U.S. coal exports will likely finish this year at their lowest level in more than a decade,

Thursday Sept. 29, 1994 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represen

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Skuld P&I Club, the liability insurer for the Swedish-Estonian ferry Estonia that sank Wednesday, es

Labor problems could be brewing at the Port of Buenos Aires as the first of the new terminal operato

Coal-hauling railroads have had a good year so far and expect the good news to continue into the win

DISASTER RELIEF ACT STAYS ALIVE IN CONGRESSWASHINGTON - The National Disaster Relief

The board of Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. voted this week to increase the regu

Democracy has been good for South Africa's coal industry. The ending of anti- apartheid boycotts, a

Rating agency A.M. Best Co. placed the "A+" (superior) rating of the Southern California Physicians

The plague outbreak that erupted last week in the Western Indian city of Surat and has spread to oth

The Czech government has put the country's coal mines up for sale, but according to government and p

Many countries have taken steps to guard against the spread of plague from India where some 1,500 pe

The majority of South Africans - but less than half of whites - believe their lives will get better

A "new and improved" mining technique that has been around for half a century is increasing producti

Just when Indonesia looked like becoming a significant coal exporter, the government launched a mass

The farm ministry will demand budget appropriations totaling more than 10 trillion yen ($102 billion

The implementation of a new world-trade agreement will give meat carriers something to sink their te

Meat shippers are no longer faced with a tough decision on how to transport their beef.Trucks are re

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The Coast Guard, citing the revival of shipbuilding in the Gulf, has agreed to keep at least two pro

Water on the vehicle deck is virtually the only explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Esto

A congressional investigating agency Thursday recommended changing cargo preference programs to cut

After a decade of legal wrangling, bankrupt Seawinds Ltd. has been given another chance to lodge an

Orion Maritime Ltd. chartered two cargo ships, the Cast Polarbear and the Cast Beaver, for service b

GUADELOUPE DOCKERS STRIKE AT TWO PORTSLONDON - Longshoremen at the ports of Pointe-a

In the business of temperature-controlled containers, change is coming by degrees. Rather th

Locked into their truckers' timetables, meat shippers often find themselves in a stew when they need

The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) has joined a troika of U.S. beef industry heavyhitters in an

The spotlight will shine on the new world-trade agreement and the removal of the U.S. Meat Import La

Wholesale beef prices have all of the volatility of gold with cost fluctuations influencedby everyth

These meat and poultry movements were the largest recorded from port documents, during the two weeks

WORLD'S LEADING PORK-EATERS Nations with highest per-person annual consumption, in pounds:Au

From coast to coast, meat is an important commodity for U.S ports. At the Port of Philadelph