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the city of Wilmington has been cleared of liability in the flood damage to 2,730 Fiat automobiles a

The Maryland Port Administration has signed a long-term lease with Seapac Services Inc. designed to

Fast-moving financial change is undermining the deposit insurance system and eventually will force C

The Federal Maritime Commission wants to take another look at an alleged $551,300.75 freight underch

Is the shipyard industry in Boston teetering on the brink of extinction in the face of massive publi

The Kuwait Oil Tanker Co., or KOTC, has confirmed that it is the owner of the tanker that the U.S. S

The Moravians came here in 1741 to escape religious persecution in Europe - primarily Germany. They

The strike at the Daewoo shipyard in South Korea ended early Thursday, hours after the government sa

Britain's Hawley Group Ltd. launched a $635 million cash takeover bid for ADT Inc., a U.S. security

A third of India's people are reeling from the century's worst drought. Sacred cows are being releas

North Carolina says its policies toward business and industry are ''internationally known." Taking a

U.S. auto, paper and wood products companies are holding their collective breath, hoping that the pa

An insurance industry executive says a decision by Massachusetts regulators not to update auto insur

U.S. representation at the Frankfurt International Trade Fair was minimal - 22 out of the 3,609 exhi

The nation's property and casualty insurance industry's consolidated net income after-tax totaled $7

State officials have denied charges from two lawmakers that New Jersey's asbestos program is burdene

Alzheimer's Costs Put At $27 Billion AnnuallySTANFORD, Calif. - The first study to comprehen

Unseasonable storms that have drenched a large part of western Europe this week appear to be having

Six insurers and three insurance industry trade groups have filed suit against the New York Insuranc

Iran Chemical Development Co., a Japanese core firm involved in a disastrous $3.6 billion joint petr

U.S. exporters of automotive parts and accessories must be careful when it comes to setting prices f

The government is urging American engineers to pay more attention to technical advances in Japan and

The cost of high-power, smaller-scale computing dropped another notch as Data General Corp. introduc

Australian-based Berwick Overseas Sourcing and Marketing Pty. Ltd. is looking for a U.S. distributor

The U.S. merchandise trade deficit on a balance-of-payments basis widened to a record seasonally adj

AVIATION Airlines' chief pilots wonder whether the meeting called by the FAA chief is a publ

John Andrews Named Primerica Senior VPGREENWICH, Conn. - John T. Andrews Jr. was named senio

AST Research Inc., named in International Business Machine's recent "anti- clone" suit, has pulled t

The American Electronics Association said U.S. electronics trade deficits with both the world and Ja

US and Iraq Sign Trade AgreementThe United States and Iraq have signed a trade agreement to

The Nakasone administration is recalling its top diplomats from the United States for emergency cons

Kuwait appears almost certain to charter one laid-up U.S.-flag supertanker, and is reported to be co

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration meets the airline industry's chief pilots today in a

Top officials of Japan's Advantest Corp. and its U.S. subsidiary say Advantest has never sold highly

Australian Coal Miners Call Off Planned StrikeSYDNEY, Australia - Australia's Miners Federat

Box Feeder Service Links NY, St. JohnA barge and truck operator based here celebrated the of

The Seafarers International Union of North America is heading for reorganization. Its presid

Britain's Foreign Office confirmed Tuesday that a U.K.-based company is considering applying to re-r

To protect Kuwaiti tankers flying under the U.S. flag in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy has an esco

Increased export activity over Seattle's docks has pushed the port to its peak container traffic lev