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Thailand's interim prime minister moved to reassure investors this week that the interim government

The European Commission Wednesday stepped up its efforts to make it easier, faster and cheaper to tr

A bilateral trade panel has agreed to eliminate tariffs on an estimated US$2 billion of trade ahead

The highest-level visit by a mainland China official to Taiwan for more than 40 years appears likel

U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors want to collect fees from virtually every vessel entering

MATSON NAVIGATION CO. (San Francisco) - Fred E. Robins Jr. was named manager of stevedoring operatio

Japan is unlikely to lift its ban on rice imports unless the European Community agrees to major libe

More than a dozen Chinese ethylene projects will be built or expanded over the next five years as pa

A Midwestern utility that nearly tripled in size over the last five years through the acquisition of

A new international pact to reduce export credit subsidies may be reached soon, a U.S. official sugg

Traditionally, ensuring ship safety has meant inspecting ships, but in the future it may be the ship

Double hulls are inevitable, but uniform shipbuilding, maintenance and operation standards will do m

President Bush, saying he wants Poland's new democracy to flourish, announced Wednesday that the Uni

The Denver City Council's unanimous vote this week to continue building the city's new internationa

CF MOTOR FREIGHT PLANS APRIL 1 RATE HIKEPALO ALTO, Calif. - CF Motor Freight Inc. is taking

ALL IS NOT QUIET on maritime labor's internal political front. A group of union officers in

As of Mar. 20, 1991 Prices in the spot chemicals table include spot quotations or list price

With a number of airlines deferring new orders because of low booking levels following the Persian G

Mar. 20, 1991 JAPANFinancial FuturesJapanese Gov't BondsPer 10-year, 6% bond

After 68 years of successfully manufacturing "critical care" beds for hospitals in the United States

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., the colony's premier trading house, posted earnings for last year at

Mexico has agreed to suspend parts of an apparel labeling law that has delayed shipment of millions

The American Bureau of Shipping, an organization that inspects and classifies ships, formed three sp

PLM International Inc., a transportation leasing company based here, is buying Resources Trailer Lea

Sea-Land Service Inc. will start handling containers to and from the islands of Micronesia.

The Supreme Court decision in two rail cases may make it easier for the Interstate Commerce Commissi

Reports of the death of Australia's oil industry have been greatly exaggerated. Though widel

Economic disarray and political unrest add to the normal weather uncertainties to make the Soviet Un

Corn is the crop most price-sensitive to weather adversity entering the 1991 U.S. planting season be

Mexico will need to significantly increase its imports of vinyl chloride monomer - a key raw materia

AIA JOINS NJ FIGHT AGAINST CLAIM BILLThe American Insurance Association joined forces with t

IRAQIS BOMB OIL WELLS AT KIRKUK, REBELS SAYDAMASCUS, Syria - Iraqi government helicopters bo

Despite threats of a presidential veto, the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday approved a bill to lif

A US$3 billion Venezuelan natural gas project in partnership with Mitsubishi Corp., Royal Dutch/Shel

BAT Industries Group PLC, the British insurance and tobacco giant, had its 1990 profits eroded by a

SENATE VOTES TO REPEAL ASSISTANCE TO JORDANThe U.S. Senate Wednesday voted over the objectio

Mar. 20, 1991 RESELLER Rack-Prices are in cents per gallonUnleaded Mid- Prem

Mar. 20, 1991 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

A threatened breakup of Czechoslovakia into two independent states would split the country into sepa

A group of 40 consumer and environmental groups Wednesday accused the Bush administration of trying