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Inland Steel Industries Inc. said a six-year coal supply contract with an option for additional deli

Despite losing a rezoning battle for a controversial coal unloading facility, Cogentrix Inc. is stil

Foreigners Reduce Investments in TaiwanTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan approved foreign investments

Even in remote northwestern China, only recently opened to Westerners, American businessmen can be f

Foreigners Reduce Investments in TaiwanTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan approved foreign investments

California Promotes Exports in SingaporeChalk up another "first" for California: A two-week

Norwegian-owned tankers delivered 527,000 tons of crude oil to South Africa between July 1 and Sept.

The rival port of Galveston has snared at least 74,000 tons of a 425,000-ton bagged flour shipment t

The fastest growing South Atlantic container port in fiscal 1986 was Wilmington, N.C., and now the N

Transystems Inc. admits it didn't have much choice when one of the motor carrier's biggest clients a

Air France Seeks Terms On Boeing PurchaseAir France has begun talks with Boeing Co. for repl

Canadian National Railways is warning that it could lose C$1.2 billion over the next five years if p

The Colon free zone, a maze of streets filled with consumer goods from all over the world, is fighti

Corn prices have dipped below $1 a bushel for the first time in 15 years, and farm experts warned la

An Air Products and Chemicals Inc. nitrogen-hydrogen atmosphere system was installed in the roller-

Diamond Shamrock Corp. changed its mind and will continue to operate its coal properties, following

Iranian artillery bombardments are part of the life of Basra, Iraq's second- largest city, its only

Daily transactions on Japan's first bond futures market, just a year old, averaged $28 billion in Se

LA Port Executive To Retire in JanuaryJack L. Wells, chief deputy director of the port of Lo

Felony Charged In Toxic Exposure CaseThe president, vice president and foreman of a Brooklyn

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, by a vote of 174 to 24, passed legislation designed to pr

Congress Set to Move On Truck Pension BillLeaders of the House and Senate Labor Committees a

Changes in tax laws adopted by Congress are expected to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the

Consumption of lead in non-socialist countries in 1986 is expected to rise by 1 percent to 4.09 mill

The price of steam coal delivered to Europe has taken another hit. Elsam, theDanish electric

Reichhold Raises Price of EpoxiesThe Chemical Coatings Division of Reichhold Chemicals Inc.

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

The Panama Canal Commission said shipping conditions have improved in the waterway and officials hop

India says it will press South Asian leaders to broaden regional cooperation in trade, industry and

Japan's proposed tax cuts will give a big push to capital investments from the country's private sec

The government has decided to allow foreign banks to accept time deposits for more than six months a

The Superfund law signed by President Reagan is an artful compromise between the competing interests

It will be difficult to get agreement from Mexico's commercial creditors on a multibillion dollar lo

The U.S. Department of Commerce's preliminary ruling that Canada is subsidizing its lumber exports a

The International Trade Administration unit of the Commerce Department issued a preliminary ruling

Oil prices held their ground as ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries strug

Chevron Corp. and San Francisco State University announced the inauguration of the Chevron Encore Pr

State Attorney General Robert Abrams asked the Public Service Commission tocut rates for Bro

Liability insurance premiums have been one of the fastest growing costs for shipowners during the l

The Frankfurt-based communications company Telenorma, a subsidiary of the Bosch Group, won a contrac