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Refrigerated carrier Frozen Food Express Industries, Dallas, earned $274,000, or two cents a share, in the second quarter of 2008, compared with a loss of $661,000, or four cents, in the 2007 quarter, the company said late Monday.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year labor contract that will cover more than 25,000 workers at 29 West Coast ports, the groups said Tuesday in a joint statement.

Federal regulators have approved a proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings, a $3.3 billion deal, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

Wesley Kemp was appointed president and chief operating officer of less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System, the company said.

Effective Monday, speed limits on part of Interstate 495 in Northern Virginia began changing along with traffic conditions, the Associated Press reported.

Bulk and tanker carrier Quality Distribution appointed Stephen Attwood its chief financial officer, the company said Monday.

Gasoline prices dropped 11.7 cents in the two weeks ended Friday to a national average of $3.9959 a gallon, the first time in more than a month that the average has fallen below $4 a gallon, the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations said.

The Environmental Protection Agency postponed until early August its decision on whether to grant a request from Texas to cut the national renewable fuels mandate in half, citing the huge number of comments EPA has received on the issue, which has pitted livestock growers against grain producers.