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Prices for crude oil, gasoline and home heating oil continued to slide on the New York Mercantile Ex

For the week ended June 25 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 11

Kuwait will charter for 24 months a U.S.-flag, subsidy-built tanker to go with the 11 of its own tha

The complicated set of stock transactions and vessel charters announced last week among four existin

DOCKWORKERS PICKET AT PORT CANAVERALATLANTA No disruption in operations was reported at Por

A directory, The North American Cruise Industry 1988, has been published by Nissen-Lie Consult Inc.<

Sea-Land Service Inc.'s proposed vessel chartering deal with Waterman Steamship Corp. would be a mod

U.S. consumers took on $2.421 billion more in consumer installment credit than they paid off in May,

UNOCAL CORP. STATIONS WIDEN CREDIT CARD USEUnocal Corp. said it will begin linking its weste

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration last week effectively ruled out any prospects for ne

Computer assembly might seem unlikely in the middle of the nation's largest national forest, but the

The explosion last week of the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha will not cause a sustained rally in pri

QANTAS PLACES ORDER FOR THREE BOEING JETSSEATTLE - Qantas, the Australian international airl

The Tennessee Valley Authority is staving off drought-related operating problems at its coal-fired

The second 125,000-kilowatt generating unit of the Hunan Dongjiang (East River) hydropower station,

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index showed upward movement last week, although it fell sl

JAPANESE GOLD DEALERS CUT THEIR COMMISSIONSTanaka Kikinzoku K.K. and other bullion dealers i

No further talks have been scheduled between the United States and the Soviet Union in reaching term

U.S. companies should set up subsidiaries in the European Community now or face tougher Community re

The series of chartering deals announced last week among Waterman Marine Corp., Farrell Lines Inc. a

COULD WISHFUL THINKING have prompted the recent suggestion that W. Graham Claytor was about to resig

American President Cos. is coming close to ending its ties to California's gold rush with the sale o

In a budget-cutting move, the Dutch government plans to cancel part of a submarine construction proj

In a spinoff from Star Wars" research, scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas have found a

DOW CHEMICAL RAISES PRICESMIDLAND, Mich. - The Dow Chemical Co. announced price increases fo

Hong Kong has overtaken Japan as the United States' top trading partner for U.S. polished, loose dia

Ferranti Instrumentation Ltd.'s commercial instrument department has introduced anupgraded version o

In a rare display of state and private-sector cooperation, Greece plans to launch an unprecedented b

A useful technology creates its own demand. A useless one dies. Videotex has been declared a

Fri. July 8, 1988 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

Petroleum Tankship Operations. July 11-14: World Trade Institute, One World Trade Center, New York,

SUBARU OF AMERICA (Cherry Hill, N.J.) - Katsua Utada, senior vice president, corporate liaison, of t

The United States may have to decide soon the wisdom of continuing to offer low-priced grains to fo

The shipping conference covering imports from North Europe announced on Friday a sharp cut on freigh

July 7, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High L

NO PAN AM JOB in Allan McArtor's future, the Federal Aviation Administration boss said last week.

Last week's trading in the freight futures market pointed up the difference between the soft summer

S. KOREA STEEL EXPORTS ROSE 44 PERCENT IN FIRST HALFSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's steel

South Korea's exports are expected to total $14.2 billion in the third quarter, up 17 percent from a

A Rutgers University football player charged in the drunken driving death of a teammate has sued the