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Customers of Japan-based non-vessel-operating common carriers who have been shipping their cargoes o

General Dynamics has received 17 bids, only one of which has been made public, for its 180-acre Quin

CHARLESTON, GATEWAY TO LATIN AMERICA? Duane Grantham, director of marketing and sales for the South

France's financially troubled shipping sector received a major fillip when the government of Prime M

Expansion of the U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve wartime sea-lift needs can be accomplished only i

Zimbabwe's most powerful grain lobbying group angrily protested a government plan to try to force fa

Brazil will more than double beef imports in 1987 from this year's levels to 600,000 metric tons, Br

Recent strength in U.S. eastern belt processor bids for soybeans, linked to harvest delays and attra

Kansas wheat farmers expressed frustration Thursday about agriculture being drawn into the political

Malaysian rubber prices are expected to remain firm until the end of the year because of tight supp

The Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corp. said it would postpone this month's bond offering.<

The Argentine government has informed potential foreign suppliers it has raised the quota for July-D

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

The United Steelworkers Union strike, which has tied up the Great Lakes ore carriers of USX, has spr

It is unrealistic for containership owners to suggest they can spurt back up to the 33 knots once ac

GENERAL NEWS The Supreme Court opened its new term by placing on its agenda interstate taxat

Port managers need to anticipate and adjust to the changing needs and operations of their customers

The Singapore International Monetary Exchange will become the first market in Asia to trade in U.S.

Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. will permanently close its Beardstown, Ill., hog processing plant April 10 b

Taiwan Soon Will Allow Private Gold ImportsTAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan soon will allow private g

Drilling for the first time in three years, Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s Peruvian subsidiary hit wha

Two days after ignoring a deadline to buy subsidized U.S. grain, the Soviet Union signed a five-year

Getty Petroleum Corp. purchased substantially all of the gasoline marketing assets owned by the the

Seven government employees and businessmen were executed by hanging for accepting bribes and commiss

A bout of nerves over the outcome of this week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting

Public Service Electric & Gas Co. and the state agreed to a $30 million reduction in natural gas bas

Nigerian Minister Sees OPEC Raising CeilingNigeria's Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman was quoted

The nation is embarked on a "headlong rush to foreign oil dependency," Amoco Corp. Chairman Richard

Belcher Oil Co., a subsidiary of The Coastal Corp., announced the acquisition of refining and distri

News of a 0.2 percent increase in the nation's unemployment rate during September drove the dollar l

Analysts said indecisiveness likely will be the hallmark of the stock market over the weeks ahead.

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

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

New Penn Motor Express Inc. may be a veritable trucking giant in northern and central Pennsylvania,

Top Stories The City of Guangzhou continues with its trade promotion policy in an effort to

The nation's jobless rate jumped to 7 percent last month as manufacturers cut 38,000 jobs - twice th

The first economic news from September was very bad for the U.S. economy, but the much weaker-than-e

Friday, October 3, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K

An estimated 400 small insurance companies have been threatened with curbs on their homeowner underw

U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa will have little impact on the ocean freight markets al