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CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.) - D. Wayne Byerley Jr. was appointed vice preside

Australian air force transport planes will be pressed into service as domestic airliners around Aust

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, annual waterways development opportunities confe

Bill Johnson doesn't look like the kind of guy who bicycles six days a week, 4,000 miles a year.

Atlantic Electric Co. has taken the first step in obtaining a permit to build a 220-megawatt combine

Despite continued sluggishness in its general cargo business at Savannah, total cargo volume moving

Cuba hopes to build a tourist industry that will take in $1 billion a year by the turn of the centur

A New Jersey judge Wednesday handed a victory to a consumer group trying toput a non-binding

The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission is reportedly reviewing the sale of used pickup trucks fro

A court ruling this month raises the prospect that many foreign suppliers will be subject to lower a

By 8 a.m., tourists are streaming off the massive Sovereign of the Seas and into a tropical daydream

Progress toward European monetary union is likely to be the main sticking point at today's routine

Wed., Aug. 23, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.

JAPANESE SEE INCREASE IN SOYBEAN PRICESJapanese traders predict a rise in soybean futures an

The Malaysian Rubber Research and Development Board has forecast 1989 global rubber consumption to b

Thailand's once-modest jewelry industry has persevered quietly over the last several years against s

Sales of China's "four essentials" - a refrigerator, a color television, a washing machine and a tap

CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON TRENDS IN ASIAAn international conference on coal technology, trade a

British Petroleum Co. PLC recently decided to quit the Australian coal industry, but it is pushing a

Burlington Air Express Inc., buoyed by strong growth in international operations and generally firmi

A variety of boats and support vessels are set to parade through Boston harbor on Saturday in an ann

A group of private investors - including three foreign companies - will invest US$140 million in Mex

The amount of freight tonnage carried by Lufthansa AG increased by 14.0 percent in the first six mon

A container-carrying barge arrested earlier this month might be auctioned off to satisfy a debt owed

LATIN STEEL PRODUCTION EXPECTED TO RISE IN '89SANTIAGO, Chile - Latin American raw steel out

* Trading With Portugal 4A * Tom Connors - Washington 8A* New Haven Terminal Loses Contract

In a bid to attract U.S. high-tech investment, Israeli trade and investment officials here are promo

The U.S. Customs Service is searching for a West German who it suspects participated in an illegal s

JAPAN FOUND DUMPING DRAFTING MACHINESJapanese drafting machines and parts are being sold in

Three members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are putting a lid on oil prices t

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

A memorial service will be held today for former Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who died Mon

The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered airlines to tighten fire safety measures on many air

Hoping to carry cargo into the relatively shallow ports used by West Africa's oil industry, Universa

Representatives of Japan and the Soviet Union will open their first shipping talks in 15 years in Mo

Jones Truck Lines Inc. had operating income of $1.6 million in the first fiscal quarter ended June 1

Some 2.2 million tons of U.S. imports were transshipped through Canada in 1987, a 37 percent boost f

The joke used to be that private boat docks in the Seattle suburb of Mercer Island were bigger than

Compagnie Industrielle, the main shareholder in French insurer Groupe Victoire, Tuesday rejected a t

America's AIDS education efforts have been impaired by staff shortages at the Centers for Disease Co