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The weekly general freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percen

The Federal Maritime Commission's first meeting of the new year, scheduled for Wednesday will be clo

Empremar, the national line of Chile, is suspending its two-vessel non- conference liner service bet

The Farmers Home Administration's loan program to help hard-pressed farmers stay in business will co

The degree of official protection for rice production in Japan is nine times that of the United Stat

Argentine farmers in 1986-87 planted 3.4 percent less corn at 3.493 million hectares and 23 percent

Robert M. Hope, who has served the Alabama State Docks for 35 years, has been fired as director and

U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter warned the U.S. may take strong action against Japan for i

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, in a general overview of the administration's

The three largest members of the Association of Tin Producing Countries, Indonesia, Malaysia and Tha

Malaysia Rice Board To Reduce ImportsKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia will try to reduce ri

Conservationalists Hit Plan for Calif. ForestSAN FRANCISCO - The Wilderness Society has issu

Apple Computer Inc. has no plans to gobble up other companies with the $600 million swelling its cof

Twenty-nine of the world's major containership operators have asked the Federal Maritime Commission

In one of life's financial ironies, the stock market completely overshadowed the credit markets last

Eastern Airlines emerged from perhaps its most tumultuous year as the biggest acquisition of Frank L

A study group of the American Bar Association recommends changes in tort law to deal with the crisis

Boldly, desperately, Consolidation Coal Co. is checking into the feasibility of offering coal to the

Health Insurance WASHINGTON - The new chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Commi

GENERAL NEWS Favorable economic data don't appease economists. Page 3AFINANCIALThe

Top Stories A great deal of work remains to be done in Tort Reform before the insurance indu

Good economic reports from the fourth quarter again failed to convince analysts that the U.S. econom

The Sony Corp. of America has agreed to pay the federal government $1.75 million for failing to prov

New corporate research and development centers probably will focus on the fast-growing service indus

Morton Thiokol Names HaracTo Sales PostMorton Thiokol Inc. named Sidney Harac intern

The Export-Import Bank announced its first export credit insurance policy to help a U.S. trade assoc

The Reagan administration once again will be requested by the Nakasone government to monitor prices

Charles A. Lynch, the new president and chief executive of DHL Corp., says the privately held air ex

Pratt & Whitney has announced that nearly 2,000 salaried workers in four states have agreed to early

Japan's electronics industry showed little surprise at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.'s recent r

McDonnell Douglas Corp. has notified customers that deliveries from its Long Beach aircraft plant wi

The chairman of the National Petroleum Council, an advisory group to the president and Congress mad

January 9, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon

Four years ago, the first sale of a crude oil futures contract threatened to set the oil industry on

The Maritime Administration has refused to reconsider a decision giving subsidized liner companies m

The price Ecuador receives for its crude oil reached $16 a barrel, the highest level since oil price

Prices of crude oil were quoted about 10 cents a barrel higher on the European spot market at the cl

A severe cold wave disrupted production at the Tyumen gas and oil fields in western Siberia and is t

An Indonesian Cabinet Minister says he expects oil prices to go above $18 a barrel soon if producers

Mexico Renews Pact For Oil Sales to IsraelMexico renewed its contract to sell 40,000 barrels