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Shipping lines have a limited number of alternatives to using the Panama Canal in the event of a clo

IRAQ TO PRODUCE GM, MERCEDES VEHICLESBAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq has agreed with Mercedes Benz and

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. has begun design engineering for a new 70- million-pound-a-year polyvi

TANKERS TO RETURN TO KUWAITI REGISTRYThe Maritime Administration has granted permission for

State Rep. Quentin Dastugue, the lawmaker pushing a proposed $1.5 billion transportation infrastruct

KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES is enjoying its biggest North Atlantic cargo load factor in history - 96 pe

Atlantic Richfield Co. said it plans to start testing its tanker crews fordrug and alcohol u

Tue., May 2, 1989 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada U.K. Germ

METALWORKERS ACCEPT LABOR PACT IN CANADAOTTAWA - The United Steel Workers Union, Local 6855,

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is forming committees to study last month's recommendations by the e

The story "Attorneys General File Response in Antitrust Suit," on Page 13A in The Journal of Commerc

Midwestern weather can be expected to provide corn and soybean farmers with some selling opportuniti

Japanese government and industry officials are baffled and irritated by U.S. threats of retaliation

Exxon Corp. wants to burn or bury the sludge recovered in cleaning up the nation's worst oil spill,

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

U.S. Customs Service officials say they are stepping up their efforts to slow the increasing amount

Health-care costs will continue to escalate unless medical care is rationed or patients are required

The Energy Department Monday kicked off the third round of its $2.5 billion Clean Coal Technology pr

HITACHI, GM UNIT FORM JOINT VENTURESANTA CLARA, Calif. - Hitachi Ltd. and General Motors Cor

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES LTD. (Oakland, Calif.) - David V. Ainsworth was named a vice president and

Restrictions on interstate banking make it more difficult for U.S. financial institutions to compete

EX-IM BANK TO FINANCE BOEING AIRCRAFT SALEWASHINGTON - The Export-Import Bank announced Tues

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new regulations Tuesday for 17 pesticides and 21 other

Arthur Andersen & Co., a major American accounting and consultancy firm, said Tuesday it plans a new

The Bush administration is delaying the deadline for employers to begin using complex tests to prove

A newly issued consultant's report predicts that the cost of building new merchant ships will climb

The Japanese worked an average 2,100 hours in fiscal 1988-89 (April-March), a drop of 0.8 percent or

European officials Tuesday threw the ball back in the U.S. court with a warning against the creation

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

The official IMF dollar rate for the special drawing right as measured by a basket of currencies den

CAN THE FED USE OPEN MOUTH POLICY as effectively - or more so - as an open market policy? That is on

Growth in the young waste-to-energy industry is exceeding expectations and the industry will more th

Environmentalists from around the world have gathered in this tranquil arctic capital to warn that t

A study of five major companies suggests some of the nation's railroads are underreporting accidents

PEABODY LOSES FIGHT FOR ARIZ. TAX REFUNDSPeabody Coal Co., seeking more than $42 million in

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

An official takes an hour to lay out Japan's position on a thorny trade issue, then comes to the bot

IRAQ'S EXPORT CAPACITY SEEN DOUBLING BY '90MANAMA, Bahrain - Iraq's 1990 oil export capacity

With truckers taking the state to court over new fees and railroads threatening suit over proposed t

Today's office of the future is often submerged under the chaos of the present. Competing co