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Nigeria's cocoa industry may benefit from the government's decision to abolish the federal Cocoa Mar

A Federal Maritime Commission law judge recommended a settlement with a large cash penalty in the fi

France's Mediterranean port of Sete is seeking to diversify its activities to make up for the recent

The death toll in the Soviet Union's second major maritime disaster of 1986 reached at least 79 peop

The issue of cargo preference for U.S.-flag ships hauling military shipments still divides the Navy

Holloway to Address Propeller Club MeetingRetired Navy Adm. James L. Holloway III, president

The Soviet government said it jailed for four years the navigator of a Leningrad-based cruise liner

There will be a new man at the head of Australia's biggest life office and institutional investor ne

Japan's current account surplus soared to an all-time monthly high of more than $8 billion in July,

Japan's jobless rate hit 2.9 percent in July, tying the highest rate set since the government began

Japan's current account surplus soared to an all-time monthly high of more than $8 billion in July,

New Guinea Seeks Soviet Fishing DealPORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - The government announce

Two of the colony's premier trading groups stunned the stock market with their disappointing profits

Madras-based engineering firms have planned joint ventures in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.<

Kodak Finds Dealers For Notes in EuropeROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co. said it has signe

The government of Taiwan proposed another sweeping round of import tariff cuts in hopes of easing te

The government has given its blessing to a US$4 billion joint venture steel mill in Ningbo, south of

The Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco and Oakland always has been the ugly stepsister to the fa

A Dutch consortium reportedly has negotiated the first joint venture in port construction and manage

Parlex Corp. said it signed a three-year agreement with Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. of Japan to provid

Brazil and India, the two leading opponents of negotiating rules for trade in services, proposed a p

Robert DeBono, vice president, circulation, is leaving The Journal of Commerce to become vice presid

FINANCIALCredit market analysts look for another Fed discount rate cut, but some aren't conv

Sales of new single-family houses declined for a fourth straight month in July, hitting the lowest l

An Oklahoma high court ruling equating the workers compensation system to utilities is beginning to

Attorneys for two groups suing an insurance company for allegedly discriminating against homosexuals

Scor US to Go Public To Raise $70 MillionScor U.S. Corp. filed to go public to raise about $

Officials charge in court papers that three negligence suits that won $2 million from the city were

SEPTEMBER 11-14 - National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, annual convent

The widow of astronaut Ronald McNair says she will sue Morton Thiokol, the company that made the sol

Northwest hop growers are harvesting the smallest crop of the beer-flavoring ingredient in years, a

The Agriculture Department rented 2,000 covered river barges capable of holding 100 million bushels

Colombia Eyeing Hike In Coffee Retention TaxBOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia may announce an incr

Transshipment tonnage through Rotterdam, the world's largest port, rose to 128.4 million tons in the

The following table lists the spot coal contracts signed between the Tennessee Valley Authority and

Farm income estimates issued by the Agriculture Department are once again under fire, this time from

The Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement put off until at least Oct. 1 its proposed special operati

The Customs Service will put a new, internationally compatible system to describe and classify goods

Illinois Central Sells Kentucky Rail LineIllinois Central Gulf Railroad sold its 305-mile we

Truckers are driving into the computer age in increasing numbers. Computerized routing and s