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Negotiations for local longshore contracts in four North Atlantic ports are being pressed, spurred b

India's coffee exports rose to 99,298 metric tons in fiscal year 1985, ended in March, from 68,896 m

The first U.S. warships to visit China since 1949 arrived Wednesday at Qingdao, where the last U.S.

Argentina exported 711,948 metric tons of grain, oilseeds and grain subproducts in October, down fro

The Uruguay round of international trade talks could provide an opportunity at least to freeze curre

Hampton Roads Steamship Agency of Norfolk filed for liquidation after being pulled down by the busin

The Indian State Trading Corp. has reportedly decided to import some 300,000 metric tons of sugar du

The concept of a single European Community ship registry proposed by two top EC officials has not be

The Federal Maritime Commission will tighten requirements on carriers and conferences in the foreign

The chief executive of Navieras de Puerto Rico predicts the government-owned shipping line will turn

Seamen's Institute Sets Boat-Handling CourseThe Seamen's Church Institute for the first time

The port of Oakland said it hopes to start on a major dredging project within a year. Oaklan

Active International Shippers' Association Inc. and Freight-Savers Shipping Co. settled their servic

Los Angeles Voters Want Less GrowthVoters in sprawling Los Angeles and two tiny San Diego Co

Japan's continuing economic slump due to the strong yen has had an adverse effect on manufacturing a

US-China Jeep Plant Will Export This YearPeking Jeep Corp., a joint venture between a Chines

Jacksonville voters overwhelmingly rejected a referendum that would have created a tax district for

Dredging to deepen the outbound ship channel in Hampton Roads from 45 to 50 feet could begin as ear

A marine archaeologist has a good chance of winning a permit to hunt for a treasure-loaded 16th cent

GATEWAY TO CHINA: Hong Kong may be even more important now and in the future as an entrepot for Chin

Coalition to Study Generating CapacityANDOVER, Mass. - A newly formed coalition of business,

The Port of Houston Authority plans to streamline its internal computer information network in a mov

One suspects it must end someday, that one of these days the severe space restrictions at the port o

Four new locomotives were transported recently from New York to Colombia by Flota Mercante Grancolom

Werner Dollinger, Bonn's minister for transport and traffic, and W.I. Tikhonov, the Soviet acting mi

A National Labor Relations Board lawyer said a secondary boycott dispute between the International L

The United States should insist that U.S.-flag ships share in the fast- growing trade of automobile

In Massachusetts, a farmer hooked up with a grocery store chain to promote his carrots on television

Upcoming negotiations between coal producers and the United Mine Workers of America will be a major

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials expect to order 24 nuclear power reactors to adopt what they

Australian wheat exports should total 14.0 million metric tons in the 1986-87 (October-September) ma

Union Carbide Corp. announced a $2.5 billion tender offer as the first step in a recapitalization pl

A first shipment of Indonesian liquefied natural gas has arrived in South Korea, coinciding with the

Monsanto Develops Technology ST. LOUIS - Monsanto Chemical Co. formally announced that the t

EC Seen Likely to Set Beef Export RecordThe EC is likely to set a new beef export record wit

Chesebrough-Pond's Inc. is offering to sell selective, non-strategic business units from its Chemica

The Soviet Union renewed an offer to sell India nuclear power plants of up to 1,000 megawatts on at

Half a dozen Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors began a two-week probe of alleged drug and alc

Managing a financially sound reinsurance program is getting to be a big business. Jack Hughe

Riverside Hikes Bicarbonate Prices Riverside Products Corp. is raising its price of sodium b