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American Hawaii Cruises said it sold a majority interest in the company and dropped its Tahiti crui

Ashland Oil Reports Decline in Net IncomeASHLAND, Ky. - Ashland Oil Inc. reported net income

The award of a $290.9 million Navy contract to National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. illustrates once ag

Denis Bra Kanon, Ivory Coast agriculture minister, opened an extraordinary session of the Inter-Afri

A judge ruled that the British high court could not liquidate the beleaguered International Tin Coun

John F. "Jack" Sandner, chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), has been re-elected to se

Illinois Treasurer Jerome Cosentino says he will continue waging war on high bank-credit-card intere

Pfizer Inc. reported net income for the 1986 fourth quarter was $158.4 million, up from $139.3 milli

The market for imported gum rosin is reported to be drifting up due to declining tall oil rosin sto

Japanese production of four-wheeled vehicles dropped slightly in 1986 compared with the previous yea

A Japanese company planning to build the country's first nuclear fuel reprocessing plant for commer

A special report states that Australia's regulated domestic aviation system is almost universally di

The life insurance industry is disputing administration assertions that bank holding companies need

Newspaper advertisements at the weekend urged investors to buy Z$1 million (US$600,000) worth of sha

Rotterdam's image as a strike-free port has been tarnished by a series of longshoremen's strikes tha

Japan's Mitsubishi Corp. will conditionally comply with a Saudi Arabian request to accept a fixed o

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Marsh & McLennan Cos. settled charges that it misreprese

Several dozen gas station dealers and attendants traveled to the Statehouse to lobby against a propo

Using a hawk and harvest scenes for a "straight from the heartland" theme, Miller Brewing Co. is pro

Union longshoremen and Dade County port officials reached an employment settlement that eliminates t

Sugar Exporters Call Off MeetingA meeting of the four leading sugar exporters, tentatively s

Consumer prices rose by 2.6 percent in 1986 in the New York metropolitan area, the smallest yearly a

Gov. Thomas H. Kean has conditionally vetoed a bill designed to protect tavern owners from lawsuits

Emery Chemicals announced the completion of the final phase of the $4.5 million expansion of its Mau

Two new U.S. coking coal producers have broken into the promising Brazilian market with an offer tha

Sooner or later, the world will run on hydrogen. That's the forecast, at least, of a small b

Hollings to Address Carriers ConferenceSen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., will be the keynote spe

Direct contracted foreign investment in China plunged 50 percent last year to $3.3 billion, down fro

Direct contracted foreign investment in China plunged 50 percent last year to $3.3 billion, down fro

California Governor George Deukmejian said that if Japan did not reduce its trade surplus with the s

The battleship New Jersey, shooting its 16-inch guns off the Southern California coast, rattled wind

Swissair Adds Atlanta As US DestinationGENEVA, Switzerland - Swissair has added Atlanta to i

A range of line conditioner units from Britain eliminates fears of data corruption in microprocessor

Former Sen. Paul Laxalt, bowing out as general chairman of the Republican Party, decried the emphasi

The Japanese are worried that further appreciation of the yen against thedollar could send t

Polish Ocean Lines is optimistic about its future in the competitive North Atlantic shipping trade.<

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Chicago Board of Trade May wheat is expected to hold its premium to July amid the ongoing scarcity o

A consultant predicts the shakeout in container shipping will end by 1990, with a few large firms d

Lloyd's of London should change the makeup of its ruling council to include more outside members in