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The size of the world merchant fleet is expanding again after six successive years of decline.

FINNISH PARTIES URGE DEVALUATION OF MARKHELSINKI, Finland - Finnish opposition parties have

CENTRAL GULF CHARTERS VESSEL TO THE MSCCentral Gulf Lines Inc. has chartered a specialized,

In the trucking industry, it is called deadheading, and it is what every trucking executive dreads -

Burlington Northern Railroad was honored by the Chemical Waste Transportation Institute for hauling

Details are emerging of the investment arrangements for a long-delayed petrochemical project in the

MONEY IS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE MANAGED by mere mortals. This is the standard argument of the monetari

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Picture the world as a supermarket for investors, where every portfolio is packed with European stoc

CUSTOMS BROKERS ELECT OFFICERSMAUI, Hawaii - Arthur L. Litman, president of Castelazo & Asso

Asia Terminals Ltd., one of the colony's three boxport operators, is thinking about further expansio

The Airbus consortium plans to build a new two-engine short- to medium-range aircraft able to carry

The Soviet Union wants to become more active economically in the whole Asia- Pacific region, its chi

President Bush has called on Congress to "act quickly" to pass legislation that would expand the pro

IMC Holdings Ltd., third ranked of local shipowners, turned in an after-tax profit of HK$239 million

Nov. 27, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

The Port of Albany, N.Y., is expected to get a new terminal operator this week. The port alo

Southern California bug experts again are marshaling their toughest weapons - pesticides, traps and

Booming wheat exports were mainly responsible for driving Washington state's 1988 farm exports up 47

James K. Batten, chief executive officer and board chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc., has been named th

Prices for Third World debt in the secondary market were marginally lower following a volatile tradi

Police are using the computer to nab truck drivers impaired by fatigue. In a $200,000 pilot

Brazil's second and third largest commercial airlines, financially troubled Viacao Aerea de Sao Paul

Customs brokers and freight forwarders are banding together to create an association big enough to h

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court's determination that federal Food for Peace cargo preferen

HUGE IRON-LOCK GATES SET FOR TRIP TO BUFFALOALBANY, N.Y. - Eight huge iron-lock doors are be

Rohm and Haas Co. of Philadelphia said it will expand its Plexiglas acrylic sheet facility in Kensin

SODIUM ERYTHORBATE Pfizer Inc.'s chemical division said it will increase sodium erythorbate

The Japanese proposal on agriculture to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was viewed by som

CORN EXPORTS SAG, IMPORTS RISE IN CHINAThe U.S. Department of Agriculture said China's corn

EC CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 0.5 PERCENT IN OCTOBERBRUSSELS, Belgium - European Community consume

World demand for cars should hold steady in 1990 and grow by an annual 2 percent over the next few y

In the heart of this dismal city, where everything is gray after 44 years of communist rule, a spark

Freight shippers are promising to fight an Interstate Commerce Commission proposal that would allow

Thanks to unyielding government price controls on its products and a money- losing fuel alcohol prog

BALTICA WILL DECIDE ON SUEZ DEAL TODAYThe boards of Denmark's largest insurer, Baltica Insur

The Port of Bordeaux, the fifth-largest deep-sea port in France, will invest 123 million French fran

A secret meeting between B.A.T. Industries PLC and its financial advisers to discuss controversial s

Negotiators for Eastern Airlines and the pilots union will meet today, less than a week after the pi

European television is changing fast, and investors on both sides of the Atlantic are scrambling for