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Although overall U.S. production of sulfur declined in the first four months of the year and invento

A leak of sodium coolant in France's prototype breeder nuclear power reactor has been found, and rep

Merck Earnings Increase 28 percentRAHWAY, N.J. - Merck & Co. reported net income climbed 28

Seatrain Lines Inc. said its plan to emerge from Chapter 11 was confirmed as expected on April 9. Ef

U.S. allegations that Japanese companies sold semiconductor chips in Hong Kong at unfair prices have

S. Korea BOP Surplus Soared in 1st QuarterSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea posted a current

Nippon Steel Co., the world's largest steel maker, and the U.S. biotechnology firm Calgene Inc., of

The council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade voted Wednesday to set up a panel to inves

Sonat Inc. said Wednesday it has completed the sale of Sonat Marine Inc.'s tug and barge operations

Standard & Poor's Corp. has upgraded the debt rating of the port of Long Beach to AA- from A+, based

A Philippines-flag vessel sailing to Kuwait with a load of Australian sheep was attacked and set abl

A Boston Fuel Transportation Co. tug lay alongside a Panamanian-registered cement carrier in a Bosto

Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, denied Wednesday that

The U.S. Coast Guard's new multimillion-dollar helicopters are spending more time in the shop than i

Trans Freight Lines and Transax/RATES, the maritime information company, have opened a mainframe-to

Anniversaries tend to commemorate singular events: a birth, a death. By the time a 75th rolls around

Federal mediation between the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific and Crowley Maritime was called o

All 174 people who are confirmed to have died in the March 6 ferry disaster off this North Sea port

The British Customs labor dispute started to bite in Northern Ireland this week, while Spanish civil

A plan to close most Customs inspection sites in northern California could drive more cargo away fro

Truck drivers hauling burgers, fries and chicken nuggets to thousands of McDonalds restaurants will

The Philippine government moved its efforts to woo American and other foreign capital back to the Ph

Only three weeks after laboriously hammering out a deal to restructure some of its US$28 billion deb

H. Warner Krause, president and chief executive of Siemens Information Systems and its newly acquire

The commission of the European Community said Wednesday it will make a series of proposals over the

The European Commission said it opened an anti-dumping investigation against Japanese exports of pri

The government may buy a Soviet supercomputer instead of large and sophisticated U.S. computers beca

The U.S. dollar edged higher Wednesday with the aid of an expanded currency swap program among major

Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit to Washington at the end of the month probably won't bring

Britain probably would suffer far more than Japan from blanket U.S. import controls, senior U.K. ind

Officials claimed the Argentine government won most of its demands in negotiations on a new loan and

Early last January the U.S. Customs Service seized a shipment of men's pantsfrom Hong Kong.<

Medium-Range Missile Accord Reported Near MOSCOW - A U.S.-Soviet agreement on eliminating me

The Maritime Subsidy Board turned down for the third time a request from three tug-barge operators f

India's Oil Company Posts Record ProfitNEW DELHI, India - India's state-owned Oil and Natura

Chernobyl has begun to go back to normal" but public confidence in nuclear power remains damaged fol

Large Firms Exceeding Pension ObligationsLarge corporations are continuing to meet or exceed

The Long Island Lighting Co. is asking federal permission to crank up the Shoreham nuclear plant to

Kemper Group said it is exploring the sale of its accident and health insurance operation at a time

Cost-cutting steps enacted by Congress in the past six years substantially increased out-of-pocket m