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The West German airline Lufthansa AG and the Soviet airline Aeroflot are exploring a possible joint

United Parcel Service Inc. has expanded its document delivery service to 122 countries, putting its

The chairman of NWA Inc. says he would like a "white knight" to come forward and work with current m

Federal Express Corp., new owner of Flying Tiger Line Inc., asked the Department of Transportation t

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

Remember the old adage, "If you can't beat them, join them."? Well, during the past 10 years

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

Apr. 24, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Oil industry sources believe the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' crude oil production

What kind of problems might shipping companies face because of AIDS? "You have a much better

IRAQ WON'T INCREASE CRUDE SALES TO JAPANIraq has refused to sell additional spot crude oil t

A protracted dispute over the use of a new gantry crane is becoming very costly to Barbados' Port of

AS PAINFUL AS THE SHAKE-UP WAS, Noel Painchaud, executive director of the North Carolina State Ports

Cargo volume at the Port of Hampton Roads continues to break records, according to figures released

The government of Malaysia plans to create a separate corporation to manage state-owned Malayan Rail

After a traffic decline in February - the first in 24 months - railroads showed a 1 percent increase

Royal Nedlloyd Group NV, the Dutch transport group, is scaling down its involvement in air freight a

Ryder System Inc.'s first quarter earnings fell to $26.2 million, or 31 cents a share, from $37.3 mi

U.S. Great Lakes ports say their grain business so far this year is off to a good start and year-end

Makers of a new highway barrier say their sand-filled bins may be better at preventing accidents tha

The Alaska cruise ship industry, which netted more than $300 million last summer, said it expects re

Maritime Administration statistics show that there were fewer vessels but more carrying capacity in

A cleanup crew has finished scrubbing oil from a 10-mile stretch of Molokai Island's shoreline, but

The large seaports in northwestern Europe have long focused on North American trade. Hamburg, howeve

When Warren Luhrs sailed into San Francisco on Lincoln's birthday in his 60- foot sloop Thursday's C

Despite losing out on a huge investment planned by one Taiwan chemical firm, Canada may yet get a pi

TWO NEAR MISSES REPORTED IN NEW YORKNEW YORK - A jumbo jet and a commuter plane flew about 1

Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., has introduced legislation that would require all new tankers operating i

Procter & Gamble Co., which used the first bottle made of recycled plastic, announced a technologica

HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE PLANS RESTRUCTURINGBASEL, Switzerland - Swiss chemical group Hoffmann-La R

WHOLESALE PRICES RISE SLIGHTLY IN JAPANJapan's composite wholesale price index for April 1-1

Shell has completed its purchase of the majority of theSingaporegovernment's petrochemical stake, de

Shipping companies, admiralty attorneys and maritime insurers are trying to figure out how to naviga

William von Raab, the controversial commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service since October 1981, is

Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden has asked U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter to declar

In a move widely thought to give an incentive to shipping by air, Yoram Bilizovsky, director-general

The Soviet balance of trade worsened in the first three months of the year as imports of Western goo

Airborne Freight Corp., which operates under the name Airborne Express, reported first quarter earni

Soybean complex futures showed some improvement over the past two weeks, following late March's shar

LICHT EXPECTS CHINESE TO HIKE SUGAR IMPORTSLONDON - China will have to import "substantial q