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Vista Chemical Co. completed refinancing and consolidating its outstanding bank debt with a revised

For the week ended Aug. 9, 1986, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equ

Q:You're spending $500 million on expansion when other shipping companies are taking losses and cutt

A General Motors Corp. official staunchly maintained that the company would try to expand, not reduc

A new lending agency for Latin America and the Caribbean may be in place by early 1987. The

The century-old Bath Iron Works Inc. said it was sold Thursday to Givens, Green, and Van Amerongen L

Low-Cost Korean Model May Spur IBM MoveHyundai, the South Korean company known for its cheap

They don't work when the grass gets cut. Perfume drives them up the wall, and coffee is forbidden in

Oil prices continued to steady on a European spot market where rumors of a fresh Iranian offensive i

Weak world oil prices have taken the euphoria out of exploration and development efforts in France's

A planned year-long survey of the islands of the South Pacific in the interest of developing new tou

Council of Logistics Management, eastern Michigan roundtable. Sept. 9. Ann Arbor Marriott, Ann Arbor

Pfizer Inc. will market two of the country's leading pharmaceutical products in new forms that will

The trademark pyramid of Transamerica Corp. has dominated San Francisco's skyline but little else re

Last year Pakistan outlawed interest payments and called for more "godly and brotherly" ways to ear

Singer do Brasil announced forthcoming major exports of electrical motors for computer peripherals t

Revenue, Volume Up For Top Truck FirmsThe nation's top trucking companies experienced growth

An eight-hour chase of a U.S. fishing vessel by Canadian ships may hasten talks among U.S. officials

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement announced that it postponed implementation of a special op

The International Longshoremen's Association and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announce

Small-business attitudes offer little support for White House expectations that the economy will rea

The Port of Oakland may have to self-insure the first $1 million of its liability losses, a harbor

New limits on the tax deduction that individuals can take for advisory fees used to generate income

Longshore contract negotiations here took a new turn this week with formation of a second multi-empl

OIL IMPACT: When Alaska Gov. Bill Sheffield announced last month the state is headed for a budget sh

Farm land values continue to decline in virtually every part of the nation, threatening to intensify

Consumer spending posted a modest increase, while Americans' personal incomes rose 0.5 percent in Ju

US Finds Dumping Of Brass Sheet, StripBrass sheet and strip from Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Fra

Signal Environmental Systems Inc. signed a $187 million contract with Broward County, Fla., to desig

The issue forced onto the agenda in state caucuses last year - liability law reform - is the prime f

U.S. businesses were just beginning to get a little comfortable about being in Pakistan when a natio

The Air Line Pilots Association has filed suit to block Transamerica Airlinesfrom leasing 12

Trailer Train Co., which finances and maintains pooled freight cars for U.S. railroads, said it has

Navistar International Corp. of Chicago and Dana Corp. announced a partnership agreement to coordina

A Norwegian shipping line extended by a year its agreement to carry cargo for a giant U.S. forest pr

U.S. bankers say tax legislation Congress is expected to pass would discourage banks from lending to

Cash-heavy Japanese institutional investors are attracted to real estate properties in the smaller U

Iraq said Wednesday that its jet fighters attacked two oil tankers in Iranian shipping lanes as part

The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. and the Commerce Department will sponsor a Great Lakes Exp

Japan must get rid of barriers to foreign competition in its automobile industry, U.S. officials tol