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Regina threw up her hands and shook her head in shocked disbelief. After seven years of glowing job

Escalating price tags for locomotives, coupled with fears that the economy may be softening, have le

The U.S. dollar pushed slightly higher against most major currencies Monday in a dull market marked

1623 (Apr. 10, 1989) Previous day - 1622 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in

British Petroleum Co. shut down one of its North Sea oil rigs until the middle of the week because t

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' crude oil output exceeded 20 million barrels a da

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

Chemical import volumes bounded up 30 percent in February 1989 to 2.9 million metric tons from 2.3 m

CAMPBELL SOUP CO. (Camden, N.J.) - John T. Dorrance, a former chairman of this major food maker and

Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the largest members of the Caribbean Economic Community, reported w

Market forces should determine how insurance is sold, said a Canadian bank executive. Consum

China is facing an unprecedented energy crisis, with power cuts hitting factories, hospitals and hou

A strike of the country's nine major containerports by the 50,000-member Japan Council of Port and H

Business leaders are breathing a collective sigh of relief over international trade agreements reach

RYDER WON'T ELIMINATE ONE-WAY TRUCK RENTALSRyder System Inc. said an article in the April 17

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari moved swiftly to confront his domestic foes, but he has waited f

The international cargo-handling business is undergoing a restructuring that is shaking the industry

An angry group of Texas service station owners filed suit against Exxon Co. U.S.A., charging that th

Gasoline prices jumped more than 10 cents in the wake of the nation's worst oil spill, gasoline mark

James E. Fligg was named executive vice president and George A. Nersesian was named vice president,

A Florida House committee last week responded to calls that someone should speak solely for consumer

Massachusetts shippers are siding with truckers in their campaign to overturn a series of steep fee

Dutch beer baron Alfred Heineken, who steps down later this month as chairman of the international b

A dock strike is all but certain in Britain, a leading dockworkers union spokesman said Monday, even

China announced over the weekend that it will hike the price of Danqing crude oil to $17.06 a barrel

South African-backed Minerals & Resources Corp. put another $507 million on the table Monday in its

Alan J. Brody, president of the Commodity Exchange since 1981, resigned his post effective June 30 t

Santa Fe Offshore Construction Co. of Alhambra, Calif., is seeking Maritime Administration permissio

If catfish farming is a fast-growing business in some parts of the United States, can snail ranching

Shipboard workers, those who load and unload cargo, at Brazil's Port of Santos are set to strike for

Silicon Systems Inc. has agreed to be bought by Japanese recording tape company TDK Corp. in a deal

Companies ranging from fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. to aircraft maker Grumman Corp. agree they n

Ocean shipping lines and shippers remain split over how service contracts and independent rate actio

Western economies will probably slow down in 1989 after rebounding surprisingly well from the 1987 s

Gerhard Stoltenberg is likely to lose his post as West German finance minister in Chancellor Helmut

The nearly decade-long decline in the U.S. locomotive fleet has ended, rail equipment executives say

Carolina Freight Corp.'s first quarter earnings rose to $1.5 million, or 23 cents a share, from $463

CITIBANK (New York) - Mark Bach was named vice president in charge of new product development, a new

Baxter International Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its shares of Internati

BIAGGI BEGINS SERVING SENTENCE FOR BRIBERYGRAPEVINE, Texas - Former U.S. Rep. Mario Biaggi,