Transport, Trade and Regulation News

British Aerospace PLC said last week it is cutting more than 1,000 job at two subsidiaries, and trad

Owensboro has begun injecting something new into its public transit system - soy diesel. The

The days when an air cargo line could buy an old jet and turn it into a profitable freighter are alm

The Texas A&M University system has been designated as an "IVHS Research Center of Excellence" and c

The trend toward jetliners made of plastic instead of aluminum is taking a giant leap forward this m

The electronic age is about to come to the U.S. customs brokerage industry. In a few weeks a

The dispute between the New York-based National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America

Sapphire '93. Oct. 17-20. SAP America's fifth annual North American User Conference. Hyatt Regency S

Boeing Co. and its counterparts in Europe have found "no insurmountable obstacles" to building a sup

Data processing officials in the transportation industry believe their companies are atlittle risk d

China, in an effort to improve maritime safety, has completed installation of a coastal, long-distan

Riscon '93 Retail Information Systems Conference and Expo. Oct. 10-13. 35th annual meeting. McCormic

Pratt & Whitney, up against continued deterioration in the commercial aircraft industry, is consider

Martin Marietta Corp., stung by shrinking defense spending, said last week it will cut another 2,000

A consortium led by International Business Machines Corp. has won the hotly contested master contrac

United Parcel Service has activated what it calls Canada's first nationwide cellular data transfer n

Cummins Engine Co. said last week it has reached an agreement with Kamaz Inc., Russia's biggest truc

US CONSULTANTS GET CHINESE AIRPORT JOBNEW YORK - TAMS Consultants Inc. and DMT Inter

U.S. and other foreign semiconductor companies continued to lose market share in Japan last quarter,

The European Community's Council of Ministers last week resolved a longstanding dispute with the Uni

Con-Way Transportation Services Inc. has entered the refrigerated transportation marketwith the thou

Although the shortest distance to profitability for truckers lies in driving a relatively straight l

Several key software vendors soon will offer U.S. exporters and importers an opportunity to begin us

Two new types of switch stands, both designed to make the task of operating a switch easier, are bei

Boosted both by long-term transport trends and flood-spurred temporary demand, railcar leasing and c

Federal regulators have voted to divvy up a huge chunk of airwaves for the next generation of wirele

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Digital Equipment Corp. recently introduced new versions of its high-poweredAlpha chip desig

A Marblehead, Mass., maker of wireless vehicle communications equipment has named a Chilean distribu

The purr of a portable phone interrupts the conversation at a downtown restaurant. But the s

Seeking to tap the growing air cargo market for fresh fish, produce, flowers and pharmaceuticals, Su

METAL PARTS MAKER TO BUY COOPER UNITWORCESTER, Mass. - Wyman- Gordon Co., a maker of

Wang Laboratories Inc. hopes to emerge from protection under the federal bankruptcy code soon and re

Action is imminent on a technology firm's Federal Communications Commission applicationthat would al

B.F. Goodrich Co. showed that $1 - and a huge tax break - goes a long way, selling its giant tire pl

Microsoft Corp. and a coalition of computer manufacturers said they are close to solving the decade-

A new service that allows telephone customers to make calls by picking up the phone and saying "call

Federal Express Corp. said it has recently received firm orders from four companies for 14 Stage 3 n

In the not-too-distant future, the traditional image of a ship's captain standing in splendid isolat

Two consortia headed by giant U.S. computer makers are waiting on tenterhooks for the Sept. 30 final