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Pity the poor soul in search of a personal computer. Things have scarcely improved during th

SOUTH AFRICAN DOCKERS STRIKE THIRD PORTJOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Thousands of striking bl

Sea-Land Service Inc. said it will postpone plans to begin a service from Vancouver, British Columbi

Farmers whose corn is contaminated with the naturally occurring poison aflatoxin may be eligible for

The mood among Soviets on the future course of their economy is so uncertain that foreign companies

New Jersey Public Advocate Alfred Slocum is calling on the state insurance department to reject a pr

A U.S. District Court judge has refused to upset a Military Sealift Command decision allowing Sea-La

Four MidAmerica states will take their final shots next week at persuading the federal government to

An anxious aviation industry is pitching what it wants from the U.S. government in aviation policy w

IT WAS ON, but now it's off. Mapco Inc., the 23rd largest U.S. coal producer, had an agreeme

CHINESE OIL EXPORTS EXPECTED TO DECLINEExports of Chinese crude oil are expected to decline

The establishment of commercial air links between South Korea and Australia may depend on the size o

Negotiators in the seven-month-old tugboat strike in the Port of New York Wednesday resumed talks fo

Better truck driver training, fewer hours behind the wheel and improved brakes are essential to redu

INDIAN CROP DAMAGE FROM FLOODS SEVERECHANDIGARH, India - Damage from floods, which killed at

Executives of the National Pork Producers Council Wednesday said they willask the Commerce Departmen

Smuggling continues to account for a large portion of Syria's foreign trade, although current statis

Traditional Exports Petroleum and petroleum products, raw cotton, textiles, tobacco,phosphat

U.S. plans to impose sanctions on firms accused of illegal high-technology sales to the Soviet Union

In an effort to avert another commercial insurance crisis, New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Kenneth

Twelve people have been indicted in California for allegedly faking car accidents and fleecing insur

The U.S. dollar drifted lower Wednesday, especially against the British pound and the Japanese yen.<

Foreign debtors are likely to refinance up to $11.25 billion in military loans extended and backed b

SmithKline Beckman Corp., which saw a 25 percent drop in profits in the first half of the year, anno

REAGAN PICKS WRIGHT TO HEAD THE OMBJoseph Wright, nominated Wednesday by President Reagan to

Steel production rose to 1.957 million tons in the week ended Sept. 24, an increase of 0.4 percent f

If George Bush wins the White House, he'll shy away from enforcing the new trade bill that seeks to

No one's calling it the Illinois miracle, but after a long period of decline the Illinois economy is

Sea-Land Corp. said Wednesday that Farrell Lines and Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., the remaining two pl

Buoyed by news of a $65 million gas well purchase by Formosa Plastics Group, Texas economic leaders

Midway Airlines is doing its part so a pair of koalas can flourish in Chicago. Koalas in Chi

With its share of the maritime cargo market shrinking and its dredging plans blocked, the Port of Oa

American Society of Transportation and Logistics/Delta Nu Alpha, second international education conf

The Federal Railroad Administration found major safety deficiencies on the railroads operated by Gui

Amram Mitzna, Israel's army commander of the West Bank, said military authorities will ban exports o

Poor countries Wednesday poured cold water over new plans to ease the debt crisis and called on rich

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

The rise in global interest rates has probably run its course and rates are now likely to ease in th

Lawyers for Sir Yue-kong Pao's World-Wide (Shipping) Ltd. are maintainingpressure on South K

The short line and regional rail industry will continue to grow over the next several years because