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The government, revising its principal cost-of-living gauge to better reflect how Americans spend th

Economic Reports Due WASHINGTON - The government reports today on construction spending for

Reagan administration officials continue to predict this year's merchandise trade deficit will narro

Spending cutbacks by U.S. automakers will put the brakes on the domestic robot industry for the next

Negotiations between Latin American debtor nations and their foreign creditor banks continued to mak

Fears that Congress will enact tariff legislation similar to Smoot-Hawley are largely unfounded, con

The Commission on the Merchant Marine and Defense wants suggestions it can consider to bolster the m

Customs brokers are heeding the warning of William von Raab, U.S. Customs commissioner, to "automate

Stearns Joins ShearsonDivisionAmerican Express Co.'s Shearson Lehman Bros. unit said

The Paris economic accord among major industrial nations is more than words and reflects long-term c

The Paris meeting of financial leaders of the six industrialized democracies Sunday resulted in sign

Orders to U.S. factories for "big ticket" durable goods plunged 7.5 percent in January, the biggest

GENERAL NEWS James R. Steckel was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerc

The National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. has received a $26.6 million contract to overhaul a Navy ship

RIVALRY OVER IMPORTS of fruit from Latin America is developing between the Florida ports of Jacksonv

All interests with a stake in the survival of the St. Lawrence Seaway must speak out while there is

Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corp. earned a net profit of $30.6 million in 1986, a sharp increase from the

Elwood Kyser, secretary-treasurer of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, said

About 11,000 workers at Plymouth's naval docks staged a one-day strike Wednesday to protest a plan b

Cruise ship bunkering may not seem a particularly exciting topic amid the glitz and glamor of a maj

Faced with a lack of progress in talks to end the strikes by conventional cargo dockers, Rotterdam's

Norske Cruise A/S has decided to sue both Kloster Cruise A/S and Finland's Wartsila shipyard for up

The Federal Maritime Commission opened an investigation into possible rebating in ocean shipping tra

Hale Container Line of Baltimore will inaugurate its third container feeder barge service next Thurs

Seaway Trade Mission '87. 40-member delegation sponsored by St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. an

U.S. computer chip makers are on shaky ground as Japanese manufacturers continue to garner more mark

The New Orleans Dock Board approved wide-ranging changes in the port's pricing structure, boosting g

CCAL Adds Lisbon To Its ItineraryChristensen Canadian African Lines is adding direct sailing

Royal Insurance PLC, one of Britain's biggest insurance companies, reported a record pretax profit f

Preliminary Commerce Department statistics place the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with Canada last

The governor of Massachusetts next week will file major liability insurance reform legislation that

The port of New Orleans added fuel to the fire of a Gulf Coast pricing war over bagged goods when it

The Georgia House is expected to reconsider insurance legislation that would give the insurance comm

THIS SHOULD DISABUSE ANYONE of the notion there's nothing new under the sun. We've had a lot

Alexander & Alexander Services Inc., the nation's second largest insurance brokerage, reported net i

DOT Allows Smoking To Continue on AirlinesThe Transportation Department decided to continue

An independent insurance agency in Arizona is expected to begin testing next month a computer system

The bipartisan leadership of the House Ways and Means Committee wants to finance catastrophic acute

The stock market largely ignored the Tower Commission report on the White House's handling of the Ir

China Allowed to Open Los Angeles ConsulateA State Department official said China is being a