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A federal bankruptcy court has rejected a last-ditch effort by Prudential Lines Inc. to keep control

New textile import legislation proposed by South Carolina members of Congress violates several major

Expos Feature Hong Kong GoodsSome 25 Hong Kong manufacturers/exporters will participate in w

Maritime Administrator John Gaughan insists the Reagan administration has in place the basis of a ve

A British-based company has devised an electronic system named Toad to protect commercial ships agai

Five financial firms are asking a federal bankruptcy court to authorize a separate McLean Industries

The first lawsuit to be filed against the New York State Public Health Council in connection with ne

Large-scale farms are gaining in numbers, and an Agriculture Department report says the trend is lik

The European Community Commission proposed a voluntary plan for reducing the use of leaded gasoline.

The port of Pensacola last year had its best tonnage year since 1980, despite keen competition that

Domestic car sales by the top three U.S. automakers rose 3.8 percent in late February from the same

Technology exists to help reduce the problem of acid rain, said the head of W.R. Grace & Co.'s Corpo

Help-wanted advertising in January declined from December but was about unchanged from a year earlie

A bipartisan group of senators and House members formally introduced legislation to change the gover

Placing more than 100 artifacts from the Civil War ironclad Monitor in the Mariners' Museum should

State insurance regulators slapped a quarter-million-dollar fine on Executive Life Insurance Co. of

The government's second-consecutive deficit budget aims to boost business by holding down costs.

West Germany's seasonally adjusted industrial output was 3 percent lower in January than a month be

A new program will allow City University of New York faculty and students to use the South Street Se

Delta Steamship Lines contends it is not liable for a payment of more than $4 million to the longsho

A pier-head jumper is a crewmember who joins his ship at the last minute - if not literally leaping

Strong gains by auto, high-technology and oil issues enabled the stock market to break out of its re

Wed., March 4, 1987 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

It will take time to wean agriculture off many of the governmental subsidies and controls that have

An electronic meter-reading system may be the answer to problems of estimated bills now under attack

Orders to U.S. factories plunged 4 percent in January, the biggest decline in almost seven years, th

Record Taiwan Budget Proposed to CabinetTAIPEI, Taiwan - The National Security Council recom

The battle for control of San Miguel Corp., the largest industrial corporation in the Philippines, e

Record Taiwan Budget Proposed to CabinetTAIPEI, Taiwan - The National Security Council recom

DEVELOPMENT IS WOMEN'S WORK. Like women's work, it is never done," World Bank President Barber Conab

GENERAL NEWS The U.S. electronics industry announced plans to develop a non-profit corporati

Postal Service Weighs Express Collect ServiceCollect-on-delivery mail service could speed up

The airline industry will witness the end of the shakeout phase and see the emer gence of seven mega

The chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee has taken aim at the controversial computer reservat

Air cargo agents who once enjoyed the predictability afforded their industry by government regulatio

Mexico Held Dumping Some Flowers in USThe Commerce Department made a final determina

The Federal Maritime Commission disclosed that licenses of eight ocean freight forwarders were recen

Abandoned Freighter Being Towed to HarborFALMOUTH, England - A tug towed an abandoned Danish

Analysts have mixed opinions on the expected degree of producer participation in the recently announ

A graphic accompanying a report on British Airways in the Feb. 26 edition of the Journal of Commerce