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LYKES BROS. STEAMSHIP CO. (New Orleans, La.) - Geoffrey Dawson, who joined Lykes in 1987 as a senior

Heavy truck sales dropped sharply in August following one of the largest recalls in recent industry

A thin asphalt ribbon cuts through dense jungle and swamp linking three thriving towns on Congo's Ub

Argentina's biggest labor grouping on Monday called its four million supporters out on strike for th

That medical insurance claim for your bad back may travel 6,000 miles before you get your check, now

More than 9,000 people killed at work since 1981 might still be alive if the U.S. Occupational Safet

Two vessels arriving this week at Gulf Coast ports to discharge Chilean avocados are being touted in

Sept. 12, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

ECUADOR PLANS TO SEEK HIGHER OPEC QUOTAQUITO, Ecuador - Energy Minister Diego Tamariz said E

Textile Quotas to Watch as of 9/10/88; Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 9/10/88.

Hong Kong's domestic exports to the United States earned HK$6.83 billion (US$875 million) in July, a

China's supply of chemical products under the state mandatory plan will fall short in the latter par

The Russians are coming for almonds - 15 million pounds of them. A Soviet ship is scheduled

Cargo worth 250 million rupees (US$18 million) has piled up at Bombay in the wake of industrial acti

Maritime officials assessing damage from Hurricane Florence had little to report Monday. Tha

A large coalition of insurance agents will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decis

FOREIGN INSURER APPLIES FOR US HULL MARKETThe first foreign insurer to seek to qualify under

Preparations are under way in Beijing for a formal economic and trade symposium with Taiwan, in the

Dockworker and employer representatives returned this week to one of their favorite haunts to begin

The Federal Maritime Commission expects to issue a draft request for proposals from potential bidder

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

1282 (Sept. 12, 1988) Previous day - 1282 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should change its approach and concentrate on early detecti

The European Community Monday urged President Reagan to veto the proposed U.S. Textile Bill that pas

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of Commerce , U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, Room HCHB

Allied officials will continue to consider new measures to increase competition on flight routes to

From the first dry hole to Big Bertha," the world's most productive drill bit, the records, trivia a

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

As the drought began this spring, gold appeared poised to resume its traditional role as a store of

President Reagan Monday nominated Mary Schapiro, a top official of the futures industry's national t

Traders termed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's crop production report Monday bearish for soybea

BORDEN TO DISTRIBUTE ITALIAN PASTA IN USNEW YORK - A multi-year agreement announced by Borde

MAGAZINE LISTS FIRMS WITH TOP COMPUTERSAmerican Telephone & Telegraph Co. heads a list of 15

Two Norwegian shipowners are threatening to ask an English court to liquidate the U.K. subsidiary of

SCOTT PAPER TO BUY TEXSTYRENE DIVISIONSScott Paper Co. announced it signed a definitive agre

The president of the powerful International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union said shippers and

AMERICAN PRESIDENT INTERMODAL CO. (Oakland, Calif.) - Michael J. Goggins was named to the new positi

As Taiwan's Evergreen Group seeks to diversify away from total reliance on shipping, it is casting a

A British life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance PLC, is linking up with the French composite in

Inflation in China can be a bit like the Oriental Water Torture or the Death by a Thousand Cuts port