Maritime

DIVERSITY: THE SPICE OF LIFE. Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission meetings offer something for eve

If the United States goes ahead with increased duties on European gin, brandy, white wines, cheeses

One of the largest U.S. coffee manufacturers is building a plant in Virginia to process green coffee

Crowley May Start New Barge ServiceCrowley Maritime Corp. said it may start a new barge serv

Shultz Visits Africa WASHINGTON - Secretary of State George P. Shultz is due to arrive in Se

The Panamanian vessel Tula, 11,395 gross tons, is leaking water into its No. 6 cargo hold where the

Confirmation from Hapag-Lloyd, the West German shipping line, that its North Atlantic services will

Auto parts will be the Brazilian export hardest hit by Washington's decision last week to eliminate

Grain exports declined 54 percent through Baltimore's three major elevators, and industry observers

Australian shipping officials are generally agreed that 1987 will be a tough year for the industry,

The U.S. government removed seven countries from its list of those whose vessels may be cleared for

Gulf Shipping Normal After Helicopter AttackMANAMA, Bahrain Merchant navigation in the so

British Company Changes Its NameThe word Shipping has been dropped from the name of a long-

The Bahamian tanker Galerie was hit by missiles from an Iraqi warplane Jan. 2. The 66,113-gr

After over a month of hesitation, President Corazon C. Aquino has appointed a former management att

Having spent most of the last two weeks changing as much local currency as possible into U.S. dollar

The government of Singapore expects a boom in high-technology exports to the United States as a resu

A West Coast charter operator offering short trips on the Concorde has postponed more than half the

Managers at the log-exporting port of Grays Harbor, after slicing $36 million from the expected cost

A hand-lettered sign on the door of the darkened store announces that the foreign-currency food shop

A publisher says American music lovers shouldn't be able to buy an imported recording of Frank Sinat

The three Rotterdam conventional cargo handlers that hoped to merge under the name Triton abandoned

Hotels, airlines and governments throughout the Caribbean are The ornate El San Juan Hotel reopened

While the attention of most Americans has been focused on Washington's undeclared and as yet ineffec

A decision last week to scrap a decade-old, self-imposed ceiling on military spending has generated

A Portland company that filed for protection under U.S. federal bankruptcy laws late last year won a

US-EC Grain Dispute Could Widen Trade RiftA failure to resolve the U.S.-European Community d

Leaves for Washington NEW DELHI, India - Indian Foreign Secretary A.P. Venketeswaran leaves

India Voices Concern COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - India expressed concern Monday over economic sanct

The government reinstated cost-of-living increases on savings and loan accounts in a move designed

Two bankers predicted that Thailand's economy will grow by at least 5 percent this year, slightly hi

Plans to build an extension of Gabon's chief port at Owendo are being revived, albeit in a scaled-do

Supermarket workers who struck for nearly two and a half years rather than handle South African frui

Environmentalists Hit Redwood Logging PlanSCOTIA, Calif. - A company's plan to double its pr

About 2,200 containers of cargo have been unloaded from the three United States Lines ships arrested

A delegation of U.S. and Canadian representatives will head for Europe next month to promote use of

The government of Singapore expects a boom in high-technology exports to the United States as a resu

Israel Diamond Exports Reach Record LevelsTEL AVIV, Israel - Israel exported a record quanti

Despite few innovations in 1986, makers of personal computers saw a slight improvement in sales and

India's shipping industry is drifting while government officials search for a way to address the deb