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Prospects that the marine shipping industry will see an end to the protracted crisis on the world's

Electric Boat will combine its second and third work shifts on March 29 and restructure its first sh

Arco asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider a January decision casting a pall over the Depart

A federal bankruptcy court approved the sale of four smaller United States Lines vessels to the Mari

The new rail ferry link between Gothenburg, Sweden, and Frederikshavn, Denmark, will start operating

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Breaux May Get Post WASHINGTON - Sen. John Breaux, D-La., appears to be headed for the chair

Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange strengthened substantially in heavy trading Tue

GENERAL NEWS The government's index of economic indicators points away from future growth, f

The government has decided to allow hotels, cultural departments and halls to hold public dances for

The state Public Service Commission has delayed until April 7 a hearing on whether to cancel the ope

Ecolab Inc., formerly Economics Laboratory, has moved into the institutional laundry supply business

Burlington Northern Railroad is considering selling up to 2,000 miles of lines this year as part of

A Taiwanese delegation left for Washington Tuesday to try to negotiate an increase in this island's

A strike at the four-month-old Ford Motor Co. plant here was in its third day Tuesday, but a company

The Federal Maritime Commission stressed again that it will insist ocean carriers stick to their tar

THOSE PROFITS keep rolling in. The port of Long Beach in the first six months of fiscal year 1987 co

The 1 percent drop in the government's January index of leading economic indicators confirmed a slug

The Canadian government on Monday selected a Canadian builder for a giant icebreaker to help defend

It took an extra month for the governor of Washington to get answers to his environmental questions

Beneficial Corp. said it reached an agreement in principle to sell its financially-troubled American

The world's mainstream liner trades face more shock waves" this year if United States Lines' 12 gian

A proposed $100 million cogeneration plant to be built in Syracuse may have to be fueled by oil inst

Canadian Parliament To Debate Free TradeParliament will debate freer trade later this month,

A determined effort to integrate Just-In-Time in its distribution network led to Sears Roebuck and C

All Nippon Airways To Buy Airbus AircraftAll Nippon Airways Co. of Japan signed a 160 billio

GENERAL NEWS The government's index of economic indicators points away from future growth, f

Congress should insist on playing an active role in helping set U.S. exchange rate policy, a promine

NEW YORK - The United States is tied with Japan for sixth place among the world's nine major industr

The growth in the number of foreign tourists visiting China slowed in 1986 for possibly the first ti

Unocal Increases Solvent PricesUnocal Chemicals Division announced an increase of 12 cents a

Sen. Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the most powerful coal industry proponent in Congress, wa

A North American representative of Renaldo Piaggio Co. says the Italian company remains committed to

Hong Kong Firms Net Orders at US Toy FairThe Hong Kong Trade Council reported that the 19 Ho

Representatives of SGS Control Services, a large cargo inspection company, speaking at a U.S. Intern

The National Association of Realtors said its housing affordability index fell to 109 percent in Jan

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

The Reagan administration came out firmly in the corner of business in the argument over who owns ex

Citing unrealized 1986 internal financial goals, Cigna Corp. says it will likely lay off some of its

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den