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Pennsylvania Avenue, a ceremonial route between the White House and the Capitol building, will be ho

Business enterprises will find themselves in something of an old-habits-die- har d situation even af

Commercial construction and management of railroads, including foreign funding, was suggested Monday

S. KOREAN GOVERNMENT WARNS STRIKERSSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Defense Ministry warne

IRAN TANKER EXPLODES IN THE PERSIAN GULFMANAMA, Bahrain - A tanker exploded as it unloaded j

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

The Cape Horn, the world's largest methanol carrier at 45,000 deadweight tons, joined the fleet of M

The Federal Maritime Commission will keep its informal fact-finding investigation into trans-Atlanti

The government of Malaysia is taking over another unit of the country's premier industrial conglomer

In a sign of the tight links between U.S. and European suppliers, a service that allows companies to

Lawmakers fed up with "junk mail" clogging fax machines nationwide called for a federal ban on unsol

Funeral services will be held today for J. O'Rinda Trauernicht, 47, former plastics editor of The Jo

STANDARDS BATTLES put the byte on users. To outsiders, standards often seem the most boring

* Import Quota Watch 3A * Commodity Research Bureau 6A* Maritime Crew Size Trends Bother Ins

The United States needs to exert more pressure on its trading partners to counter a "pervasive patte

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

CONTROL DATA SELLS UNIT TO PRIMERICAControl Data Corp., the computer systems group that rece

Oil spill cleanup techniques and contingency planning will be dissected at a May 23 seminar sponsore

A top official of Itel Corp. confirmed market rumors Friday when he told a group of securities analy

House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee leaders have asked the government's ocean research and

Intermodal transport of lumber and wood products continues to grow as small shippers make greater us

Like a good many other U.S. industries, housing and real estate lately have felt the pinch of high i

AGFA CORP. (Ridgefield Park, N.J.) - John F. McGlynn was named president of Agfa's Photo division an

BHOPAL VICTIMS' HEIRS BEGIN TO RECEIVE COMPBHOPAL, India - The heirs of 2,000 adults killed

The Japanese have struck gold in Indonesia - by sitting in a lab in Tokyo gazing at pictures.

Harry S. Keefe is a graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy. He also holds a masters degree from the

John J. Creedon of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is planning to step down Sept. 1 as the company's

FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS REPORTED OFF AT GEICOGeico Corp.'s first quarter earnings fell to $45

Capitalizing on its advantages as a U.S. territory, the Virgin Islands is selling itself as an offsh

A national port strike has been called in Italy, imposing a one-day shutdown on Friday and allowing

A senior Japanese government bureaucrat said Monday that Motorola Inc. definitely will not be permit

Just a year after it doubled the size of its trans-Pacific containership fleet, China's national shi

The Soviet Union has printed so much new paper money that it could buy all the goods in Western Euro

A major conference on ship financing, sale and purchase is slated for June 19-20 in London.

HOUSE PANEL POSTPONES DOMESTIC RATE HEARINGA House maritime subcommittee has postponed a pla

Nedlloyd Air Cargo and MSAS Cargo International will either exchange or merge air freight activities

Emery Worldwide told the world last week that it is the successor to Purolator Courier, Emery Air Fr

Fri., May 5, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K.

Electronic data interchange users appear to be well on the way to resolving one of the technology's

DOT SEES FURTHER DIP IN AIR PASSENGER GRIPESPan American World Airways, Trans World Airlines