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Having waited and seen, American business executives here seem to be making decisions on how, or whe

For the week ended Sept. 23, total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled

With four to six bags of harvested rice in the backs of their Toyota pickups, some 35 Japanese farm

A House subcommittee has agreed to hold a hearing on the railroad industry's newest top priority, th

A curtain of forgetfulness may be condemning this nation's greatest peacetime nautical disaster to o

A looming dock strike in the New York-New Jersey harbor was averted Thursday, but the possibility of

U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Richard Crowder Thursday said costly U.S. cargo prefer

The ships have returned to the Port of Charleston. Blocked by the debris and shoaling in Cha

On Wednesday, a VIS, a Very Important Salmon, was scheduled to ply the North Atlantic from Oslo to N

EAC Lines has renewed a five-year terminal use agreement with the Port of Oakland. Under the

British Airways PLC is turning to its shareholders to raise 320 million ($515 million) to help fund

Sun Co. announced plans to develop a series of cleaner-burning motor fuels and will work with an Eas

BA BULLISH UAL DEAL WOULD PASS US TESTSBritish Airways PLC's top executives said they are co

Gasoline and distillate inventories increased, the American Petroleum Institute's latest weekly supp

Itel Rail Corp. is going south of the border. The San Francisco-based railcar lessor entered

Gov. Michael S. Dukakis announced Tuesday that his cabinet-level Executive Office of Energy Resource

FLUOR UNIT, DUKE POWER ANNOUNCE JOINT VENTURENEW YORK - Fluor Daniel Inc., a subsidiary of F

The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service awarded a $128,000 contract to study the econo

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers ended five days of talks Wednesday with a ne

A powerful new force in the information technology services industry will be created when Istel Grou

The Tennessee Valley Authority awarded contracts for coal needed at its Widows Creek station in Stev

Sept. 27, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Railroads are resolving a situation that has been one of the greatest drags on the growth of transpo

THE LIGHTS ARE COMING BACK ON in Charleston, S.C., ruined by Hurricane Hugo on Sept. 22. For

IRAN TO MAINTAIN PRICE OF CRUDE FOR JAPANESETOKYO - The state-owned National Iranian Oil Co.

James Pugh, executive director of the Port of Houston, told delegates to the first annual Bulk Trans

American Short Line Railroad Association, annual meeting, Oct. 1-4. Westin- Copley Plaza Hotel, Bost

Two small and financially ailing railroads are continuing to attract much more attention as bankrupt

Chances for a dock strike increased again Wednesday when waterfront labor and management failed to m

Contship Containerlines Inc. is moving its U.S. corporate headquarters to Virginia Beach, Va., in an

A Sept. 22 story in The Journal of Commerce about growth trends at the nation's international trade

With major shipping lines looking more and more at joint operations to improve profits, a new panel

Any initial misgivings among customers of Norasia Lines Ltd. about the joint venture with Sea-Land S

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, on the eve of his first official visit to Washington, said he i

THAMES SHIPPING QUITS US-MIDEAST CONFERENCEThames Shipping Ltd. quit the conference that ser

Both industrial and developing nations are pressing the United States to cut its budget deficit and

The European Community's executive commission Wednesday agreed on the final text of a controversial

The four national dockworker unions at India's 11 principal ports are planning fresh disruptions ove

Colgate-Palmolive Co. and Lever Brothers Co. are joing four other partners to build a US$50 million

A war of words between the Port of Hampton Roads and the Port of Baltimore might erupt into an all-o