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Calif. Seat Belt Law Seen Having ImpactCalifornia drivers are buckling up in record numbers

Entering 1987, the deck is stacked against U.S. coal exporters, whose fortunes rode high in the earl

Shipping Prices Help FirmMusk MarketThe market for synthetic musks is reported to ha

Teofilo Named Trade Group'sNew ChairmanThomas N. Teofilo was elected chairman of the

Spending on Japan's program to send its first astronaut aboard a U.S. space shuttle will be cut in

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

The leadership of Yasuhiro Nakasone is certain to be severely tested by stormy legislative sessions

The quick and skillful action of crewmembers on a New York harbor tug averted what could have been a

Tomoko Nagamine carefully punched the numbers into her calculator, totaled them and, as she usually

The Australian government has set up a series of committees to improve efficiency on the waterfront.

The $170 million in cash Onex Capital Corp. of Toronto agreed to pay for Purolator Courier Corp.'s p

At a time when the maritime industry probably needs Washington representation most, it has become le

The insurance industry will continue pressing its fight for tort reform in state legislatures in 198

Industry analysts hope Argentina and Holland are on the way to settling their lengthy dispute over d

Yugoslavia's Parliament adopted the 1987 economic plan that only expresses hopes for containing runa

A single maritime company with a handful of ships and barges is making nearly as much money as all o

Indonesia Sees Increase In Fish Export EarningsJAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia earned $197.8

The stock market is winding down a year that has seen a gain of roughly 25 percent in the Dow Jones

Traffic through the port of Vancouver could nudge 60 million metric tons in 1987, challenging a hand

Airbus A340 to Have New Type EngineAirbus Industrie, the rapidly expanding European commerci

Cologne Re of America Has Surplus Beefed UpSTAMFORD, Conn. - Cologne Reinsurance Co. of Amer

Health-care needs for the nation's elderly will rise dramatically at the dawn of the 21st century as

Almost a third of Soviet enterprises have failed to meet their contract commitments under the nation

The $18-a-barrel goal of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is only a minimum price s

Rescue officials called off a search Friday for three missing crewmen from an Icelandic freighter th

Iran-US Negotiations THE HAGUE, Netherlands - U.S. and Iranian officials meet today to negot

Entrepreneurs in this English-speaking Caribbean republic are still rejoicing over the recent electi

Friday, Dec. 26, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

Trinova Unit CompletesIPC PurchaseMAUMEE, Ohio - Sterling Engineered Products Inc.,

Market for Gum Rosins FirmsThe market for U.S. gum rosins is reported to be firming.

Steelmakers in Brazil could outdo Japanese mills in staking out further reductions in the price of c

Officials proposing to cut the workweek from 48 to 40 hours say they expect to run into resistance i

Troubled dairy operator Knudsen Corp. on Friday said it agreed to sell its Texas and Louisiana opera

The effort to decide whether to automate the Federal Maritime Commission's overburdened paper tariff

Backers of multiyear highway funding legislation this week will launch their campaign for early acti

A syndicate of seven Japanese banks has agreed to provide 160 billion yen in loans to three affiliat

The U.S. dollar continued its week-long decline Friday, testing a six-year low against the deutsche

Distrigas of Massachusetts Corp. received a shipment of liquefied natural gas when the British-regis

Saudi King Appoints Minister of PetroleumRIYADH, Saudi Arabia - King Fahd issued a royal dec

Faced with plummeting earnings in 1986, Elf Gabon, the offshoot of France's state-controlled Elf Aqu