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Automobile insurers are waging a last ditch battle to kill a bill that would give Massachusetts' ins

State insurance regulators urged private insurers to develop long-term health care insurance product

Cooper Basin Producers Find Gas in S. AustraliaSYDNEY, Australia - South Australia's Cooper

A general strike protesting economic austerity measures and the foreign debt shut down some factorie

Trio, the consortium of British, West German and Japanese container lines, has added a 19th ship to

The Swedish steelmaker SSAB is evaluating bids from U.S. exporters for coking coal to be delivered n

Albertson's, the nation's eighth largest supermarket and drug chain, will build its largest dry good

Tenneco Reaches Accord On Poclain RestructuringTenneco Inc. said it has reached agreement wi

European Community transportation ministers will have another go today at hammering out an agreement

New Intermodal Pact Goes Into Effect Jan. 1The new Uniform Intermodal Interchange Agreement

PACCAR Inc. unveiled its first-ever midrange truck to be sold under the Peterbilt and Kenworth namep

The only U.S. reactor with a design similar to that used by the Soviets at the Chernobyl plant will

Tenneco Reaches Accord On Poclain RestructuringTenneco Inc. said it has reached agreement wi

The Japanese government's Board of Audit has found 146 cases of misuse of national funds during fis

A small British company is creating an expanding business for itself serving other companies that wa

The government plans to relax controls on the supply of several key materials, including scrap iron,

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc. described as preposterous" allegations by the North Carolina ins

Norway may continue to voluntarily limit oil exports even if the current Organization of Petroleum E

The Australian government is starting to take a keen interest in gifts and other inducements paid by

The port of New York and New Jersey plans a new $31 million terminal to handle a growing volume of a

Pan American World Airways said it will augment its worldwide electronic cargo tracking system with

The Irish government has given Hughes Aircraft Co. approval to build and operate that country's firs

Despite persistent requests from U.S. and Canadian companies operating on the island, the Jamaican

The government of Taiwan is weighing several options to protect its farmers after bowing to U.S. pre

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

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

Duquesne Light Co. filed a proposal with the Pennsylvania Public UtilityCommission to expand

Robert G. Egan, fired after a rocky two years as director of the South Louisiana Port Commission, is

The Polish ship Ziemia Olsztymska, carrying 18,000 metric tons of grain, was freed after it struck a

World wheat production is climbing toward record levels, further clouding prospects for a substantia

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

Since 1982, natural gas industry executives have hoped for an end to the gas glut as the solution to

Europe Container Terminus of Rotterdam, facing a sharp fall in business following the suspension of

Julius Maldutis, a top-rated airline analyst with Salomon Brothers, has added Tiger International to

The president and chief executive of Burlington Air Express says the Irvine, Calif., firm is not par

Led by Japan and the United States, direct foreign investment in South Korea in the first 11 months

Korea Shipping America Inc. plans to turn its New York office over to a general agent after Jan. 1 i

Union Carbide Corp. announced the dual syndicated public offering of 27 million shares of common sto

Indications of a stronger-than-expected U.S. economy seem likely to push interest rates upward near-

Labor disagreements affecting several important ports worldwide this autumn have increased shipowner