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The port of Portland's five-year plan to create an 800-passenger harbor tour boat is awash in a sea

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK PHILIPPINES - Bank will guarantee the financing of U.S. exports for the P

An expected 20 percent increase in exports, reaching $37 billion, has not resulted in any sense of e

Japan's last oceangoing commercial whaling fleet leaves for the antarctic Tuesday to close down the

GENERAL NEWSA new study said mini-mills are replacing the larger integrated steel mills. Pag

Norway Says Cutback Unrelated to OPECNorway is not cutting its oil production to cooperate w

Jacksonville is not the only Florida port counting heavily on a Nov. 4 voter referendum. Dad

The MD-87, newest and smallest of Douglas Aircraft's MD-80 series, was rolled out before the public

Venezuela Decreasing Foreign Debt TotalCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela will have paid back $5

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

The segregated Deep South, steeped in turmoil in the autumn of 1962, was quite unprepared for James

CBT Sets Nov. 17 To Start Wheat FuturesThe Chicago Board of Trade announced that directors s

Japan's annual energy requirements will soar by some 70 percent over the next 44 years, reaching bet

OCTOBER 29 - Reinsurance, Eleventh Annual Research Seminar of Insurance Information Institut

Increases in the costs of health care and auto parts, large jury awards and insurance fraud are the

Todd Shipyards Corp. reported second quarter net income of $173,000, compared with a loss of $4,306,

Shippers and truckers have appointed a joint committee to solve problems the carriers say are caused

Soo Line Railroad Posts Loss of $5.73 MillionSoo Line Railroad lost $5.73 million in the thi

A senior official with the U.S. Federal Reserve Board complained that West Germany's large trade sur

West Germany's automakers, enjoying a strong buyers market at home and a vigorous rise in their expo

The stock market could be vulnerable to rising interest rates and likely will take its cue from the

Boston Edison Co. will start paying commercial and industrial customers to use less power as it seek

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

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will be asked for an opinion on several questions stemming

Union Carbide Corp. officially opened a new 140,000-square-foot technology and operations center for

Robert D. Kennedy, Union Carbide president and chief executive, praised President Reagan for his act

The first 1,300-megawatt unit of the new nuclear power plant at Cattenom, strongly opposed by enviro

Alaska Marine Lines, a non-union, cost-conscious barge operator, has emerged as the dominant common

American Ventures Eyes Allegheny Power PactGREENWICH, Conn. - American Ventures Inc. began n

The European Space Agency has decided to go ahead with its preparatory program for development of th

Tomy Kogyo Co., a leading Japanese toymaker, will shut down two of its Japan- based factories hit ha

The Reagan administration still hopes the downward drift in commodity prices will trigger a recovery

Malaysia Tightens 1987 Fiscal BeltAt least one more grim year is in store for commodity-depe

Sulfur emissions from coal-fired power plants have long been regarded as a major cause of air pollut

Coniston Partners, a New York investors group, raised its tender offer for Gelco Corp. stock in a re

President Reagan signed into law legislation deregulating the nation's freight forwarding industry.<

SAI Names G. RamseyPresidentREADING, Pa. - Strategic Analysis Inc. named Gregory Ram

Bank of America is swinging the ax in Asia, pruning staff in almost every regional center office in

The Netherlands and Argentina again failed to reach agreement on their long- running dispute on debt

Qantas, the airline that koala bears hate for bringing so many people to Australia, is worried that