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Led by the lure of future profits, the push to globalize and the prestige of being in an emerging ma

There was a good deal of skepticism in the executive suites of U.S. shipping lines last week.

The first step toward the creation of a single electronic information network for Europe's ports was

Ports and shipping lines have each contributed to a proliferation of volume incentive freight rates,

U.S. textile and apparel importers and domestic producers are clashing again over whether their prod

One of the East Coast's largest suppliers of heating oil Thursday told retailers of the fuel his com

A full membership at the Chicago Board of Trade traded for $350,000 Thursday, up from $340,000 at th

Aug. 17, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

When the government of Kuwait received U.S. approval to employ non-American seamen on 11 Kuwaiti tan

India's shipowners, worried about meeting their own manpower needs, are seeking government help to s

Consumers Power Co. is asking the Michigan Public Service Commission to clear the way for it to sign

Neither side reported progress this week in the 18-month contract dispute between Pittston Coal Grou

Evergreen Marine Corp., the container shipping giant, is holding talks on landing rights for its emb

Shipowners and ship management companies aren't the only ones who suffer from the steady depletion o

THREE COMPANIES BUY AMOCO NEB. PROPERTIESBeard Oil Co., Floyd Oil Co. and Triad Energy Corp.

Exxon Corp. says it has scrapped an oil drilling project located amid Mayan ruins in a Guatemalan ra

From Anchorage to San Diego, West Coast air cargo volumes grew at all but one of the West Coast's la

Royal Insurance Holdings PLC, one of Britain's biggest insurers, has not ruled out the possibility o

NORTHWEST TO PURCHASE AIRBUS A330S, A340SST. PAUL, Minn. - NWA Inc., parent of Northwest Air

United Parcel Service Inc. said a recommendation by an administrative law judge to award most U.S.-J

Increased underwriting losses in the United States and other overseas territories contributed to Gen

In an attempt to reduce the number of drivers in New York's overly-populated assigned risk plan, Ins

NICELY NAMED GEICO CHIEFOlza M. (Tony) Nicely was named president of Government Employees In

APPLIX WILL SUPPLY SOFTWARE TO SWISS LIFEWESTBORO, Mass. - Swiss Life Insurance, of Zurich,

Stolt Tankers and Terminals (Holdings) SA, Greenwich, Conn., this week completed a $10 million expan

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

HOW TO USE: The following government bid opportunities are among the hundreds of such opport

A Bermuda company that insures Exxon Corp. and most of the major domestic oil companies is consideri

MARSHALL ISLANDS GETS CUSTOMS TAX BREAKThe Customs Service has added the Republic of the Mar

The Coast Guard is designing a new numbering system for pleasure boats that eventually could lead to

The Port of Oakland is phasing out a type of wharfage rate that helped West Coast ports compete with

Faced with fewer ship calls and decreases in its primary import cargoes at its three Connecticut ter

Aug. 17, 1989 Baltic International Freight Futures MarketPreClose High Low Vol.

The Indiana Port Commission and Ceres Terminals Inc. will meet Aug. 28 to try to resolve a steel shi

1421 (Aug. 17, 1989) Previous day - 1417 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

Malaysia's natural rubber production fell 11.5 percent to 675,943 metric tons in the first 6 months

Rep. Glenn Anderson, D-Calif., said he will introduce legislation next month that would give the Int

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA ALLOWED TO CUT CREWSNORFOLK, Va. - The Central of Georgia Railroad Co. an

IS THE UNITED STATES HEADED for a "canola explosion"? This was recently suggested by a California-ba

BOOMING SALES, intrastate rates and a change in a customer's distribution have given a Minnesota tra