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Sen. John Breaux, D-La., Tuesday held out no hope there would be comprehensive maritime reform this

Foreign airlines serving Vietnam are doing a healthy passenger business, but they complain the state

Members of the United Transportation Union employed on the northern third of the Burlington Northern

No story.

The U.S. dollar rose Tuesday on expectations the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates in the nea

The National Association of Manufacturers will press for a fundamental reform of the U.S. export con

A flood of Taiwanese investment into China has given birth to a flourishing underground exchange mar

Germany posted a provisional trade surplus of 1.2 billion deutsche marks (US$744 million) in Februar

Argentina's President Carlos Menem made a new bid to get a patents protection bill through Congress

Pacific Rim economies will continue to grow rapidly in 1994, with 17 of 20 nations expanding at an a

Stephen Merrett, one of the best known figures in the London insurance market and deputy chairman of

RUSSIAN EXCHANGE AUCTIONS US GRAINLONDON - The Russian Grain Exchange, based in the

Battle lines on legislation to resolve the trucking undercharge controversy are clear: Shippers supp

APL Stack Train Services will offer a new premium-level intermodal service starting Monday with thir

Parched earth. Bony cattle. Desperate farmers fleeing the land. So it has been, in the droug

Price-support measures announced last week by Colombia's National Coffee Federation were met with ge

Researchers are finding cheaper and more environmentally sound methods of making and administering T

Fewer companies operated fewer barges on the Mississippi River and intercoastal waterways last year

Foreign ship orders received by Japanese shipyards fell sharply in April to201,700 gross reg

ITF ELECTS BOWERS SECTION VICE PRESIDENTNEW YORK - John Bowers, president of the Int

Guenter Rexrodt, German economics minister, said he sees the opposition Social Democratic Party slow

BP Exploration Inc., a subsidiary of the British Petroleum Co. PLC, Tuesday said that the Bruce Nort

WESTINGHOUSE CLEARED IN PHILIPPINE CIVIL SUITNEWARK, N.J. - A federal court jury Tue

Will Atlantic Container Line and Polish Ocean Lines pull out of the overcrowded and unprofitable Nor

The new U.S. Customs commissioner Tuesday used his first public speech to assure business groups tha

A New Jersey Superior Court ruled that insurers and reinsurers of Owens- Illinois Inc., a former mak

FIRST-QUARTER PROFIT FELL AT SEDGWICKLONDON - Sedgwick Group PLC, one of the world's

As of May 18, 1993 Quotations are based on prices reported in the market or obtained from su

May 18, 1993 Copper Total, 113,069. Gold Total, .1,498,687.Silver To

Commercial Quantity Aluminum ingots_ $1,150-$1,250per ton lots &

May 18, 1993 Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

BREAST CANCER DRUG SAID TO CUT OTHER RISKSORLANDO, Fla. - Long-term treatment with t

French dockworkers and their employers met Tuesday in an effort to ward off further strikes at the P

The Massachusetts Port Authority Tuesday defended its double-digit increases in administrative costs

A yes vote in the Danish Maastricht referendum Tuesday will put the European interest-rate-convergen

A Dutch government official Tuesday dismissed European Commission pressures for the creation of a li

A cost-sharing venture to develop a new clearing system between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and

Suppliers of copper to China expect some difficulties, such as requests to reschedule shipments, fro

Qantas Airways Tuesday urged Canberra to consider using the future of U.S. military bases in Austral

St. Johnsbury Trucking Co.'s managers, failing to convince enough workers to approve a 12 percent wa