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Insurance costs are driving more corporations to self-insurance programs and higher retention levels

American and British insurers and the British government are raising stiff objections to a proposed

JAPAN LONG-TERM PRIME SEEN FALLING IN JULYThe long-term prime rate is likely to fall to 6.1

Anyone who ever awakened to find blinking zeros on the digital electronic clocks around the house wi

June 22, 1992 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

Twenty years ago, Mexico's largest shipping company scheduled several trips a week for dedicated bre

Several U.S. ports are modernizing their non-containerized cargo-handling facilities, based on expec

Used cars to Russia, bagged beans to Algeria and tallow to Antwerp, Belgium, are just some of the mo

Uncertainty about the final size of the 1992-93 (June-May) U.S. wheat crop may be a principal factor

As of June 22, 1992 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

On one 275-mile stretch of the Atlantic Seaboard you can find the whole story of breakbulk shipping:

Total Ocean Marine Services Inc. said it has initiated monthly service between the U.S. Gulf Coast a

A new trade agreement between Venezuela and the 13-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) was hammered

Natural gas futures for July delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange settled down 1.1 cents to

Giandomenico Picco, chief U.N. negotiator, said Monday that negotiations with Iraq had ended with a

The European Commission wants to create a single European inland waterway market stretching from the

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of AgricultureForeign Agricultural Service

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday let stand a lower-court ruling that allowed three Indian tribes to lev

The story of the F.W. Mestre Equipment Co. in the past 15 years mirrors the economic fortune and mis

Following is a summary of rail labor disputes (Class 1 carriers only) from 1980 to 1991 in which the

China said Monday it will impose export license requirements on toys made by some 3,000 factories be

Import steel is shaping up as the early season hot cargo for U.S. ports on the Great Lakes/St. Lawre

The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced in April that it was voluntarily

Like an ambiguous weather forecast in the local newspaper, the outlook for newsprint shipments in br

Don't look now, but a palace coup appears to be under way in the forest. At least that's how

A Customs Service proposal to place new railcar inspection stations on the U.S.-Mexico border is get

Shell Oil Co. and Zeigler Coal Holding Co. announced a blockbuster deal in which Zeigler will buy ou

In a move that has startled the German shipping industry, Olaf von Maydell has revealed plans to lea

Annual 1 Mo. 3 Mo. Year Daily Smoothed Ago Ago Ago6/19 6/18 Change % Change: 5/27

Southwire Co., one of the seven defendants indicted June 12 for allegedly conspiring to export ferti

Like many ads for workers compensation, a new spot on a Riverside radio station promised money.<

Federal Express Corp. said Friday that it moved 1.62 million packages and documents daily across its

Banning radar detectors in commercial vehicles is a waste of money and will not make highways safer,

The once harsh negotiating atmosphere in the bilateral U.S.-German aviation talks has greatly improv

GLOSSARY AR: American Tanker RateSchedule RevisedRS: American Tanker Rate Schedule

JAPAN AND US TO HOLD TRADE MEETING IN JULYTop trade officials from Japan and the United Stat

The International Trade Commission cleared the way for anti-dumping duties on imports of carbon stee

GENERAL MOTORS JAPAN (Tokyo) - J. Michael Durrie was named president, effective July 1. He replaces

The dollar will decline in the week ahead amid concern about the strength and durability of the U.S.

Increased protectionism in China has paralyzed plans by America's biggest computer manufacturer to e