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The U.S. Customs Service is nearing its goal of creating a paperless world for clearing cargo at por

Contract talks have resumed between leaders of British Columbia's 3,400 longshoremen and maritime e

Combustion Engineering To Close Pa. FactoryEAST MONONGAHELA, Pa. - Combustion Engineering In

Mom Fights Insurer For In-Home CareLOS ANGELES- Evangelina Lopez says her brain-damaged son

An unprecedented union-employer health study is under way that may have path- breaking, if unsettlin

The Port of Fernandina Beach will welcome its first commercial ship service Oct. 2 with the schedule

The labor dispute at Thunder Bay, Canada's biggest cereals export port, is costing Canadian Great La

The Soviet Union plans to modernize its merchant fleet between now and 1995 by adding hundreds of ne

Like many countries in East Asia dependent on imported oil, an economic bonanza has fallen to Taiwan

The merger of Delta Air Lines and Western Airlines will produce another mega- carrier with more carg

Japanese and foreign business leaders here are skeptical that the Nakasone administration's latest $

Japan has made progress in removing barriers to telecommunications trade and its financial markets b

The textile industry has replaced oil as China's top foreign currency earner, with exports reaching

Four men who did not contest a charge that they tried to illegally export high-technology military e

Total foreign exchange reserves stood at US$10.47 billion at the end of June, according to figures f

China is promising foreign investors that the government will do something about the high costs, red

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it will charge a currency adjustment factor of 21 per

The nation's best soybean growers face a growing challenge from booming oilseed production around th

Eight seamen can look homeward again, now that the abandoned freighter on which they were stranded f

GENERAL NEWS Congress is likely to give final approval to the tax reform bill this week, des

Friday September 19, 1986 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanadaU.

The experimental drug AZT appears to extend the lives of some AIDS patients and will become the firs

The dispute over how to launch a new round of multilateral trade talks covering both goods and servi

Management in the port of New York and New Jersey - the nation's most expensive port - is trying to

Delegates from over 30 nations may agree this week to replenish the World Bank's International Devel

The following are the results of Friday's St. Louis Merchants Exchange call session for barge freigh

Compania Trasatlantica Espanola and Italia di Navigazione announced their short- and long-term progr

The West Berlin-based German Institute for Economic Research-DIW urged the Bonn government to stimul

Evergreen Marine Corp. agreed to take a 30 percent stake in the Malaysian transportation company Kon

Architects, Engineers Set Annual MeetingNEW YORK- The 94th annual meeting of The Society of

Utilities' overall fuel bills are substantially less because they purchased more spot coal in 1986 t

The growth in European demand for thermal coal for the period from 1985-2005 is forecast to outstrip

Money-making hospital chains are more efficient than their non-profit counterparts, which are proppe

Safmarine Names Finlay,WhiteheadMichael J. Finlay was named chairman and Dennis R. W

Americans' personal incomes climbed 0.4 percent in August, the best gain since April, while their sp

Magellan Petroleum Corp. said the 922-mile main trunk of the natural gas pipeline from the Australia

Uncle Sam is trying to prove to truckers that their daddies were wrong when they said front brakes w

The way to sell road-railer service is to "make the customer feel he's using a truck line," a Norfol

Union Pacific Corp.'s billion-dollar buy-out of Overnite Transportation Co. fits neatly with the rai

The Nakasone government should purchase American rice and then ship it directly to developing count