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Government plans to toughen performance standards for truck drivers hauling hazardous loads should b

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman said approval for New Hampshire Yankee Corp. to stage zer

Supply and demand factors will force crude oil prices up to $18-$20 a barrel this year, and perhaps

Mexico expects airlines and ocean carriers to be best at moving cargo for the duty-free, in-bond pla

Fiber-Optic Expansion NEW YORK - GTE Laboratories said its scientists have found a way to do

Platou Buys Ship Ordered by SankoOSLO, Norway - R.S. Platou of Oslo purchased a ship origina

The insurance crisis that has made many types of liability coverage difficult or impossible to get,

Pfizer Inc. announced that its food additive petition for a new high- intensity sweetener discovered

Port of Seattle commissioners said the Inland Waters Coalition can use port facilities to hold a pub

Report on Chernobyl VIENNA, Austria - Nuclear industry experts from more than 50 countries b

General Motors Corp. is offering new incentives aimed at urging white-collar employees to resign, a

Sales of existing homes rose 1.8 percent to an annual rate of 3.45 million last month in the first i

About 99 percent of California's farmers use at least some of the state's 3,635 registered pesticide

All was quiet on the north terminal as Teamsters unloaded and the International Longshoremen's Assoc

Consumers Board Fights NiMo Rate IncreaseALBANY, N.Y. - The New York State Consumer Protecti

Elliott J. Siff, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Alcide Corp., announced that the compa

A steamship company operating between Washington and Alaska is seeking a 50 percent reduction in fee

U.S. and Soviet atomic energy officials signed a protocol marking revived formal exchanges on nuclea

Virginia Power said its plan to purchase Colombian coal was put on the back burner, partly because a

FMC Increases P ersulfate Prices FMC Corp. announced an increase in its price of ammonium, p

Groups Reach Accord On Fruehauf PurchaseTwo competing groups bidding for control of Fruehauf

The sign on the road to Nickel Mountain has a line that reads: "Permission to pass revokable at any

A two-month drought is ruining the cotton crop in the northwestern provinces of Chinandega and Leon,

The buoy-loading tanker Sarita is the first visible result of Norway's A/S Ugland Shuttle Tanker &

President Reagan approved measures to tighten the U.S. embargo against Cuba, the government announce

The European spot oil traders are marking time to see whether members of the Organization of Petrole

If one good turn deserves another, as the adage has it, then one good Federal Reserve discount rate

Hong Kong Holiday HONG KONG - Hong Kong marks Liberation Day today with a local holiday.

The Interstate Commerce Commission vacated its decision to allow Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. to ab

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

U.S. Rep. John Dingell is questioning the U.S. plan to fight Canadian duty rebates designed to attra

PPG Expands Silica UnitIn TaiwanPPG Industries will increase the capacity of its pre

Foreign orders for new ships continued to sag in July due to the worldwide shipbuilding slump, the J

Waterman Marine Corp. reported income of $2,775,000, or $2.12 a share, for the second quarter, compa

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng said USDA will continue to add commodities and

Only a decade ago, most U.S. railroads were discouraging passenger traffic of any kind. Carr

Swiss Watch Industry Expects Stagnant YearBIENNE, Switzerland - Swiss watch exports, hit by

Indonesia would have increased trade and economic success if it reduced its protectionism, said Sen.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said the Soviet Union agreed to a temporary cut of

Further cuts in tonnage and some growth in seaborne trade are unlikely to restore balance on freight