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WITH HEATHER GRADISON'S TENURE as chairman of the Interstate CommerceCommission drawing to a

Dec. 1, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low

A major Soviet hydroturbine company has asked two U.S. companies to help it negotiate a trade deal w

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

Tax-supported ports in Washington state should not be allowed to spend their taxes carving each othe

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

A New Orleans company is asking the Maritime Administration for permission to sell and transfer to L

European officials stopped just short of laughing outright at a call for a North American free trade

European Community transport ministers renew their efforts today to open up their national trucking

U.S. and Japanese negotiators failed to reach an agreement on Japan's restrictive supercomputer trad

The potential for trade with the Soviet Union may be great, but severe currency problems, shifting p

Several carriers have criticized a Maritime Administration order for subsidy- built vessels in the U

Shipping experts estimate that up to 1,000 ships now registered in Panama may have to transfer to an

1640 (Dec. 1, 1989) Previous day - 1653 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

Shipowners in Japan, which operate more ships under Panama registry than their counterparts in any o

Insured property damage caused by wind, hail, tornados and flooding in 16 states in mid-November wil

U.S. agricultural exports to major trading partners in 1990 are expected to remain at present levels

REGIONAL BLOCS Central Africa Investment Forum. Dec. 5-8. Yaounde, Cameroon. Forum, sponsore

CHEMICAL LEAMAN TANK LINES INC. (Lionville, Pa.) - John J. Kilcullen was appointed president and chi

Actors and others generically known as artists complain they have a hard time getting health insuran

West Germany offers the brightest across-the-board prospects within the 12- nation European Communit

The Bush administration is fleshing out its offer of special duty-free treatment on imports from Col

International Business Machines Corp. is asking its plants across the country to reduce or eliminate

You know that winter is near in South Florida when the Wall Street crowd heads for Boca Raton.

A British unit of Salomon Inc., which was ordered to pay arbitration awards by the French Cocoa Trad

CON-WAY CENTRAL WINS SAFETY AWARDWISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. - Con-Way Central Express was honored

Officials with the United Steelworkers union called last week's job action by steel haulers a succes

Thu., Nov. 30, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

The minivan market will boom in the early 1990s and then slow down for the rest of the decade but Ch

The nation's big retailers posted mediocre November sales results Thursday, but in a favorable omen

Tom Carvel, the gravelly voiced pitchman for Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss and other Carvel Corp. co

ALLSTATE WILL EXPAND OHIO OFFICE, ADD JOBSHUDSON, Ohio - Allstate Insurance Co. officials sa

British Airways' new managing director for cargo, Mel Williams, is confident he will have his first

An East German economic recovery like the one that transformed war-ravaged West Germany into one of

AUTHORITIES REAFFIRM SEAWAY CLOSING DATETransportation authorities Thursday reiterated the c

International finance experts this week shoved aside trade and aid packages such as the United State

Lawyers for Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood have asked the courts to dismiss criminal charges

A 55-acre container terminal to be built for Hanjin Shipping Co. at the Port of Long Beach now looks

DEVELOPMENT BANK EASES LENDING POLICIESThe Inter-American Development Bank said Thursday tha

Nov. 30, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,