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If American International Group Corp. is any indication, theories about the productivity gains wroug

Major opponents of the container-handling rules of ocean carriers and the International Longshoremen

After decades of skirmishes over antitrust issues and waterway maintenance, barge lines and railroad

The Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered 45 railroads to refund about $1 million in overcharge

The U.S. farm machinery industry saw a hoped-for 1988 sales recovery wither in the heat of last summ

Unemployment figures for December are likely to show that job growth slowed last month from November

Sea-Land Service Inc. suspended moving export cargo from the Jamaican Port of Kingston Monday after

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

The European Community's food mountains are dwindling fast, according to figures published Wednesday

At least nine countries were reliably reported to have chemical weapons in 1987, and four nations un

Survivors of Guatemala's worst maritime disaster put most of the blame Tuesday on a naval patrol boa

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

China will sink into stagflation this year with rising inflation and falling output if an austerity

The British government was accused by its own outgoing chief official to the European Community of l

NJ FAMILY FILES SUIT IN PAN AM CRASHWEST ORANGE, N.J. - Relatives of a New Jersey family kil

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

AIRGAS INC. ACQUIRES TWO GAS DISTRIBUTORSWILMINGTON, Del. - Airgas Inc. announced the acquis

CUBAN RADIO REPORTS 3 DEAD IN TRAIN WRECKTwo trains collided in Cuba's easternmost province

GERMAN TRADE SURPLUS GROWS SHARPLYWIESBADEN, West Germany - West Germany reported Tuesday a

Although Taiwan is pushing an ambitious plan to surpass Hong Kong as the world's busiest containerpo

Containerization has been advancing slowly in Mexico during the past five years as the country's fin

As insurers face mounting pressure from consumers, attorneys and legislators to correct the volatile

Sweden uncovered an arms cache near Stockholm airport last July that contained the kind of explosive

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., a subsidiary of Texas Eastern Corp., and ANR Pipeline Co., a subsi

As municipalities around the United States continue to seek creative methods of financing public wor

Canadian stock markets, whose recovery following the October 1987 crash has stalled, will find it ha

A year after a string of commuter airline accidents focused attention on the safety of the smaller c

BEFORE AIR EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL there was no freight forwarding company whose total income was deri

Neo-Nazi computer buffs are making increased use of computer games to spread their militant propagan

Union Carbide Corp. announced the incorporation of its domestic industrial gases and carbon products

West Germany plans tighter export controls following allegations that private companies illegally sh

For the week ended Dec. 17 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

The Port of Richmond in Virginia set tonnage records during the 1987-88 fiscal year, and port offici

* Commodity Research Bureau: Sugar 6A * Edward Renshaw - Why not 4 percent unemployment? 8A*

It looks like a catamaran that rises partially from the water on a cushion of air. Known as a surfac

The shortage of containers available for lease in world trade may be resolved in the near future, bu

Financial resources being the biggest constraint on developing the transport sector, the government

Japan is about to become the world's biggest foreign aid donor but is struggling over who should giv

World-Wide (Shipping) Ltd. has taken delivery of two supertankers from South Korea and says a disput

The Italian subsidiary of Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. will build a semiconductor factory and