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The Norwegian maritime community is hoping that investing in shipping will help offset a decline in

The Port of Hampton Roads, Va., generally is known as the nation's busiest coal port but its loading

A Louisiana ship operator has won a second contract to build and operate a vessel for the U.S. Navy'

The collapse of Toronto's Confederation Life Insurance Co. is pushing an industry protection fund to

INSURERS ALLIANCE SHIFTS SOME OF ITS OPERATIONSSCHAUMBERG, Ill. - The Alliance of Am

SEDGWICK GROUP PROFIT CLIMBED IN FIRST HALFLONDON - The Sedgwick Group PLC said Tues

California agricultural exports this year are enjoying a double dose of good fortune. The North Amer

Revenue in Indonesia's life insurance sector jumped 33.5 percent last year over 1992 to 1.28 trillio

Almost one year after he was hired by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield as president and chief executive

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee plan to hold a closed meeting this morning to consid

While insurers say homeowners and businesses in coastal areas of New York are having few problems ke

Mexico is poised to become California's largest agricultural export market within the next decade, b

When things are going well, you want them to get better. That's why, even though California

Members of the Latin American Shipping Service Association have temporarily delayed a sharp theft su

No doubt about it - agriculture is the staple of ocean carrier container traffic out of California.<

The value of orders for new construction in the United Kingdom fell a provisional 4 percent in the s

In the news business, one is always picking up esoteric bits of information. For example, Ijust foun

The jubilee began in 1987, when the Japanese opened their doors to California cherries and developed

Sweden's consumer prices were unchanged in July from June, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported

Despite witnessing their first volume decrease in more than a decade, California winemakers continue

The Port of Oakland, buoyed by its proximity to the San Joaquin Valley in central California, ranked

CUBANS TRY TO FLEE, BUT TANKER IS DETAINEDHAVANA - Several hundred Cubans boarded an

The Louisiana Legislature should consider permanently mooring gaming boats on the busy and tricky lo

Stiff rail-transit tariffs imposed by Lithuania on Russian exports may force a shutdown of Russia's

American International Freight plans a dramatic expansion of its overnight all-cargo network next ye

For the week ended Aug. 6, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 16

China plans to build or expand dozens of airports this year in an effort to help its overloaded air-

Rural Oklahomans will pay more for their goods if President Clinton signs a trucking-deregulation bi

More than $30 billion of imports and exports in and out of this country will be tracked by year's en

Air Inter, the domestic arm of Air France has found a lucrative niche. In a service that the company

A local visit by Pratt & Whitney-Canada executives scheduled for this week will mark the frustrated

City officials want fair-market value for a 40-acre facility near the airport. Delta Air Lines wants

The Port of Seattle has started a $3.5 million pilot program to quiet jet noise in some of the regio

Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. is threatening to put its final contract offer into effect this week at s

YELLOW FREIGHT LAYS OFF 500 NONUNION WORKERSOVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Yellow Freight Sys

Bilspedition AB hopes to reduce its holdings in Atlantic Container Line to 17 percent if a planned s

Faced with the prospect of a drastically reduced Interstate CommerceCommission, more than 10

A report titled "Freightliner Leads Heavy-Truck Makers in Drive Toward Possible Sales Record," on Pa

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's version of a new network of priority roads and h

The New York foreign exchange rates below, provided by EAB New York and other sources, are selling r