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American President Cos., with its import volume and shipping rates higher, and its four new ships ru

Farmrail System Inc. is planning to begin operating over 189 miles of track formerly owned by Burlin

Bethlehem Steel Hikes Prices of Rail ProductsBETHLEHEM, Pa. - Bethlehem Steel Corp. announce

Northrop Posts Net Loss in PeriodNorthrop Corp. reported a net loss of $15.4 million on slig

For the week ended July 4 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 94,

The name Townsend Thoresen, inextricably linked with the Zeebrugge ferry disaster last March in whic

An International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union caucus recommended approval of a new contra

Fournier Will Head Maine Pilotage AgencyAUGUSTA, Maine - Arthur J. Fournier has been named c

A famine relief ship carrying 8,000 tons of food bound for Mozambique and Jordan won permission to

Gelco Corp. Signs Pact To Sell Canadian UnitGelco Corp. said it has signed an agreement to s

Guy F. Atkinson Construction Co. of San Francisco has been awarded a $28 million Army Corps of Engin

U.S. Maritime Academy Alumni Association. Marine insurance luncheon Sept. 16 at the Downtown Athleti

A dozen years after female workers filed discrimination suits challenging National Airlines Inc.'s m

The U.S.-Japan economic relationship has improved more than is commonly believed, a top Treasury off

A city agency on Wednesday unanimously approved a dress code for New York's taxi drivers that forbid

Standard & Poor's affirmed the single 'A' minus rating on Carolina Freight Corp.'s $50 million conve

Teamsters working for United Parcel Service Inc. would receive a modest hourly wage increase and a s

Mack Trucks Inc. is claiming victory following a decision by a federal judge to require transferring

The fortune cookie business in the United States is far from breaking up. Umeya Rice Cake Co

The Chinese government is considering shifting away from its present low-rent system for housing and

The United States isn't prepared to wait very long in its attempts to resolve the agricultural subsi

U.S. automakers scheduled the assembly of 94,965 cars in domestic factories this week, according to

Aluminum Co. of America said it raised prices by roughly 5 percent on a broad range of aluminum shee

Taiwan reacted strongly Wednesday to the Reagan administration announcement that it may further rest

GENERAL NEWS Starcom International Inc. will close its doors July 31. Page 1ATrade-related i

Japan has vowed to tighten its export-licensing procedures and said it would take other steps to gua

A shrinking ocean carrier market will force Starcom International Inc., the electronic rate and tari

The seizure of a West German freighter by St. Lawrence River pilots over a disputed salvage claim ha

Lightning-fast cross-country rail hauls spurred the U.S. Postal Service to award Conrail a lucrativ

Amid reports that unpaid crewmen on at least one vessel have mutinied, Scindia Steam Navigation Co.

The United States and Japan may sign an agreement next week on supercomputer trade. U.S. off

Never mind coals to Newcastle, or sand to the Arabs - America is now exporting fortune cookies to th

The surprise merger announced Thursday of Britain's two biggest airlines, British Airways PLC and Br

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

The operator of the Peach Bottom nuclear plant, shut down because employees routinely slept on the j

The Japanese shipping industry is introducing modernized vessels in a bid to regain its internationa

The Federal Maritime Commission, already involved in an investigation of South Korean shipping pract

Seaboard Cold Storage Inc. says it plans to build a $3.5 million, 2.4 million-cubic-foot cold-storag

The U.S. dollar bounced back Thursday, particularly against the Japanese yen, but analysts said its

Finance Secretary Jaime Ongpin today will sign a debt-rescheduling agreement with commercial credito