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Tonen Corp. said Wednesday it reached agreement with a U.S. oil trader affiliated with Exxon Corp. t

UNOCAL UNIT TO INVEST IN THAI GAS FIELDSBANGKOK, Thailand - Unocal Thailand said Wednesday t

Cargo and passenger airlines expected to return to normal operations in the San Francisco-Oakland Ba

Commuter and cruise boats from two Crowley Maritime Corp. units have been pressed into service ferry

The first of Boeing's new 747-400s to operate in China went into service Wednesday, one of three on

The U.S. Postal Service carries more than letters, and health department officials in Englewood, N.J

Air express services suffered only moderate disruptions in the wake of Tuesday evening's devastating

An aggressive feeder line established in Thailand, Regional Container Lines Co., is expanding furthe

NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES BUYS 340 REEFER BOXESNeptune Orient Lines Ltd. is purchasing 340 new re

PUERTO RICO MARINE MANAGEMENT INC. (Edison, N.J.) - Brian Huresky was named regional sales manager i

President Bush has signed the Maritime Administration budget bill for fiscal year 1990. Cong

Ports need to get actively involved in the war on drugs to avoid losing business, according to a spo

One of Singapore's richest businessmen and the head of several flourishing companies was charged Wed

UPS AIR UNIT TO BUILD NEW KY. HEADQUARTERSLOUISVILLE, Ky. - United Parcel Service Inc. Wedne

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

Trade leads are supplied by: US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service Agri

The Soviet Union is negotiating with foreign companies for joint venture deals to convert at least t

Efforts by an American seamen's union to organize workers aboard U.S.-owned ships flying the flags o

House Agriculture Committee members accused the Food and Drug Administration of understating the hea

Trade with Japan seems likely to remain an imbalanced flow of more Japanese goods into the United St

Mobile telephones have become the rage in international business communications , but the popular co

Oct. 18, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

If you want something done, you have to do it yourself. That was the message from infrastruc

1545 (Oct. 18, 1989) Previous day - 1516 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Brazil's calendar 1989 federal budget deficit through September totaled the equivalent of $8.943 bil

JAPANESE REPORT CUT IN US STEEL QUOTAJapan's steel export quota to the United States has bee

Wed., Oct. 18, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

National Frozen Food Association, convention and exhibition, Oct. 22-24. Contact: NFFA, (717) 534-16

Disappointing trade numbers could cause a weakening in the Canadian dollar, some analysts say.

Bank of Japan Governor Satoshi Sumita Wednesday urged Japanese banks to be cautious in lending for l

* Trading With Japan 4A * Businesses Assail US Export Programs 5A* Tom Connors - Washington

qIndustrialized nations this week endorsed a U.S. proposal to draw up a timetable for phasing out sh

The National Security Council's "unclassified summary" of the national security sealift policy cover

The number of poor people in the United States stayed about the same last year as in 1987 even as pe

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

Applications to build oceangoing ships under this year's official shipbuilding loan program are near

The U.S. merchant marine will never move beyond mediocrity unless it develops a unified strategy, a

Shippers with operations in and near San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., were quick to adjust their o

Jammed telephone lines and a blackout in downtown San Francisco slowed claims calls to insurers and

A ship is better off putting to sea to avoid the large tidal wave that might result from an earthqua