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JAPAN'S ASAHI BOOSTS STAKE IN BELGIUM'S AGBRUSSELS, Belgium - The Japanese group Asahi Mutua

A new oil pipeline that connects the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean will transport crude oil to

For the week ended Jan. 20, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's majorrailroads, which is

Monsanto Co. will extend an eight-year joint biomedical research agreement with Washington Universit

Investor Jon Huntsman has enlisted the aid of GE Plastics in his battle to wrest away Aristech Chemi

Bechtel Group has landed a $30 million pipeline project in Singapore, its first turnkey construction

The Trading With Israel column published on Page 4A in The Journal of Commerce of Thursday, Jan. 25,

CANADA TO RESUME AID TO SOUTHEAST ASIA AREACanada, saying the world must make peace in Cambo

The Soviet Union plans to adopt new regulations that will allow Soviet citizens to import copying eq

The parent of Kansas City Southern Railway reported last week that a 26 percent increase in its 1989

China will seek to reduce domestic demand and concentrate on strengthening its basic industries, sai

China intends to sharply increase coal production through the rest of the decade to meet domestic ne

The U.S. Postal Service effort to attract additional international business reply mail is a direct a

JAPAN'S OUTPUT SLOWS; INFLATION RATE SOARSThe Japanese inflation rate soared and production

Jury selection begins today in what promises to be the most watched maritime- related court case in

This index alphabetically lists all significant references to companies and other operating organiza

European insurers are bracing themselves after last week's storms for what could be their largest ev

Taro Nakayama, Japanese foreign affairs minister, asked Saudi Arabia to continue letting Arabian Oil

U.S. transportation officials awarded two South American airlines the right to begin air cargo servi

United Airlines cargo ton-miles for December were 117.8 million, up 1.2 percent from 116.4 million a

A spokesman for Onomichi Dockyard Co. denied a published report that Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp.

The Soviet Union has not bought any sugar on the world market in the past two days and has no plans

EUROPEANS EXPECTED TO HIKE EDI SPENDINGBy 1994, European companies' spending on computerized

The Federal Maritime Commission's anti-rebating probe will go beyond thetrans-Pacific trades

Major U.S. shipping lines in the next few weeks intend to ask a global agency to endorse electronic

Lep Group PLC will pay $14.7 million cash to buy the Wohlfarth Group, a major German transport and d

The Prudential Insurance Co. of America has introduced what it says is the first mass-marketed plan

JAPAN MOVES TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYTOKYO - Japan's Finance Ministry has started to

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Jan. 26, 1990 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

New England fuel supplies were disrupted for a fourth day Friday as another section of decayed seawa

JAPAN'S CRUDE IMPORTS RISE FROM YEAR AGOJapan's crude oil imports in December totaled around

Japan Air System Co. announced its decision at the weekend to place orders for around 10 MD-90 twin-

THE WISH LIST KEEPS GROWING. Aluminum industry executives wish for: a recession-less economy

Several dockworkers union locals in eastern Canada are preparing to follow Montreal's lead by breaki

Japan's Finance Ministry is concerned about the growing popularity of program trading and its effect

The Journal of Commerce Industrial Price Index declined in the week ended Friday, as higher plywood

Depending on where you sit, Northern Telecom's Maestro is a great boon to your privacy - or a sign t

MINESWEEPERS TO LEAVE PERSIAN GULF FOR USThree U.S. minesweepers operating in the Persian Gu

In an apparent sign of troubles to come, a pack of U.S. commodity groups is stating publicly - some