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White House science adviser D. Allan Bromley has defended the Bush administration's "go slow" policy

The world marketplace is growing bigger and becoming more important every year. So are the ships and

Leaders from the 12 nations of the European Community meet today and tomorrow in the Dutch town of M

Ultimately shipping and port development depend on trade volumes and, viewedfrom this perspe

It was once America's flagship airline. Now it's nothing more than a carcass about to be picked over

Britain's busiest port is haunted by the twin specters of the European Community's single market and

The European arm of M.W. Kellogg Co. says it will provide process technology for South Korea's secon

Lukoil, the first of several big integrated oil companies expected to emerge in Russia, was formally

COLGATE PLANS TO SELL TOOTHPASTE IN CHINANEW YORK, Reuter - Colgate-Palmolive Co. said it fo

Wisconsin Electric Power Co., the state's largest utility, just did something in waste recovery that

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 5, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

The European Community expects railroads to be the backbone of its transportation system in the 21st

A rash of recent train crashes has dramatized the need to modernize Mexico's antiquated rail system

Friday Dec. 6, 1991 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Canada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November remained unchanged from October at 10.3

Domestic shippers still feeling the pinch of a 40-foot container shortage in the aftermath of the gu

With box volumes here growing more than 20 percent each month on the previous year, and the increase

Bulk cargoes may still rule the Gulf of Mexico, but economic changes in Europe and Latin America hav

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

President Bush's selection of Samuel K. Skinner to be his chief of staff ends Mr. Skinner's unfinish

A seafaring union is mounting a pre-emptive strike against the Coast Guard'splans to collect

The U.S. dollar fell sharply Thursday despite the Bundesbank's announcement that German interest rat

Dec. 5, 1991 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPrev.Close High Low

Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, whose country carries Africa's heaviest per capita debt burden,

British and Argentine officials have opened talks over possible joint management of resources, inclu

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

The U.S. delegation at the working group talks here of the International Coffee Organization circula

Eastman Chemical Co. has developed a technology that it says will help automate plastic recycling op

In the wake of jobs cuts in recent months at Sea-Land Service Inc., a number of strategy shifts have

When news of Flagship Express' demise this week spread through the air cargo community, the first re

Overseas direct investment by Japanese manufacturing companies is likely to fall 16 percent in the n

The German oil industry is confident that the Soviet Union will keep supplying Germany with oil desp

1564 (Dec. 5, 1991) Previous day - 1574 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

A South Korean import tax increase that has been described as "very likely" has spurred a sudden sur

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 5, 1991Prev. Life of Contr. OpenOpen Hig

Dec. 5, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

SOVIET OIL FIRM SAYS EXPORTS WILL CONTINUEAUSTIN, Texas - The vice chairman of the Soviet Un

New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 4, 1991CRUDE OIL(1,000 barrels; dollars and cents

CHINESE PROVINCE OFFERS TAX PREFERENCE PROGRAMNANJING, China - The government of the coastal