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Higher pay and broader corporate responsibility mark the role of today's distribution-logistics exec

Claus Koehler, a directorate member of the West German Bundesbank, reportedly said the German centra

Having made good its purchase of an ailing local bank, the fast-moving First Pacific group is moving

Lower Mississippi River coal terminals loaded 1,162,000 tons of export coal in September, the busies

The state should have the power to set auto insurance rates, a critic of the auto insurance industry

Total Soviet grain imports in 1986-87 (July-June) are forecast at 32 million metric tons, down from

Hugely increased crude oil and refined products transshipments boosted the volume of cargo handled a

Pa. High Court Upholds Law on Liability LimitHARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court,

Marine Industries Ltd. confirmed it reached an agreement in principle topurchase the eastern

Wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent in September as the year's biggest gain in gasoline prices more th

Triton, the general cargo stevedoring joint venture proposed by three Rotterdam companies, will prob

The Interstate Commerce Commission is on notice that its decisions in the next few months may determ

The Federal Reserve likely will cut the discount rate again before the end of the year, but the exac

Britain's National Freight Consortium will strengthen its interest in the U.S. transportation indust

President Corazon Aquino urged Filipino businessmen to invest, saying her government has set the sta

Kodak to Sell Lenses To Nitto OpticalROCHESTER, N.Y. - Lenses made by Eastman Kodak Co. in R

There is growing speculation that financially ailing Purolator Courier Corp. may be poised to sell i

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission has criticized the Chicago Board of Trade for allegedly p

Seatrain Lines' once mighty fleet of U.S.-flag oceangoing vessels will be reduced to three tankers i

The port of Galveston and Sea-Barge Group Inc. announced the inauguration of a container service bet

Longshoremen in New Orleans went on strike to protest overtime restrictions in their proposed new co

U.S. farmers, long vaunted as the pacesetters for world agricultural productivity and efficiency, ma

Manville Corp. said it reached a $29.75 million settlement with Marsh & McLennan Inc. and Marsh & Mc

Jamaica and the World Bank have settled their differences over what policies are best for the countr

The 66th British Motor Show opens in Birmingham today with a near-record 500 exhibitors showing thei

GENERAL NEWS Philip Morris will sell Seven-Up to a Dallas company. Page 2AThe board of Gel

A Michigan company has patented a process it hopes could generate electricity eventually through con

The Brazilian government, angry about a meat shortage that has lasted several months, seized 2,000 h

The wife of a controversial Houston stevedoring executive claims the Port of Houston Authority is pu

The directors of Sea Containers Ltd. decided to suspend payment on dividends on the company's common

The Air Force has ordered an unusual second review of an apparently flawedfinancial study th

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

South Pacific Trip WARSAW, Poland - Poland's foreign minister, Marian Orzechowski, is to pay

American Isuzu Motors Corp. and its joint venture partner, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., apparently ha

The financial disasters experienced by the shipping industry over the past decade - "the industry's

A new $1.4 million study, the largest of its kind ever conducted in the United States, will attempt

Wilhelmsen Offshore Services has sold eight supply vessels to Sverre Farstad of Aalesund, Norway. Th

If this is October, then the Georgia Ports Authority and the state's legislative delegation must be

Some of the worst accidents in the trucking industry take place when the driver tries to get out of

For the week ended Sept. 27, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads eq