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HERTZ PLEADS GUILTY TO OVERBILLING CHARGESHertz Corp., the big rental car company, pleaded g

Lloyd's of London has refuted recent allegations in the British press that a surge in members' resig

What if the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the soybean loan rate and nobody noticed?

WHERE DID WE put our actuaries? That must have been a surprise to the property/casualty insu

The number of Californians without health insurance jumped 50 percent between 1979 and 1986, and wor

Most Chicago-area shippers seemed to accept that the threatened strike at the Chicago & North Wester

The government's foreclosure gavel will slam down on state-owned firms starting in November, when a

The Journal of Commerce asked port officials in the Bay Area what they expected to see over the next

Perhaps more than any other U.S. port region, the ports of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay region repr

Six years ago, the Port of Redwood City, Calif., started what it considered to be a fairly simple pr

The Golden Gate port region each year sees an estimated 4,000 vessels transporting nearly 60 million

The job of port director has changed dramatically since the days of the early 1960s when it could be

Keeping track of containers is a tough task. Add to this the task of seeing what state of repair the

Most port directors agree that competition is important to port operations. But officials differ on

The U.S. port industry has changed dramatically in the past several years. An industry that once was

The chief executive of Seagate Technology, a leading maker of computer disk drives, has said backed-

NY TOWN DISTANCES ITSELF FROM VDT LAWBROOKHAVEN, N.Y. - The Brookhaven Town Council has unan

Put an aviation executive and a trial lawyer in the same room, and the argument will go like this:

Lufthansa German Airlines will add air freight capacity this year and next to handle expected growth

Dr. Shivinder Singh Sidhu of India assumed his new duties this week as secretary general of the Mont

The restructuring of Braniff Inc.'s route system continued this week when the Dallas-based airline a

SECOND QUARTER LOSS FOR PROFIT SYSTEMSProfit Systems Inc., a major forwarder based here, los

Australia's international airline Qantas is considering becoming an integrated door-to-door cargo op

DE HAVILLAND SELLS DASH 8-300 IN EUROPEThe De Havilland Division of Boeing Canada ended two

One might expect an ominous cloud to be hanging over Airbus Industrie these days. On June 26

Ports often walk a fine line between cooperation and competition, and the stakes involved in missing

CAROLINA FREIGHT BUILDS MOBILE TRAINING UNITCHERRYVILLE, N.C. - Carolina Freight Carriers Co

Transporting Dangerous Goods By Air, two-day seminar, Aug. 10-11. Radisson Inn Airport, Greater Cinc

New Teamsters union President William J. McCarthy replaced two of the labor group's five conference

Aug. 3, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High L

As some shippers switch from barge transport to rail, a few grain-carrying railroads report they've

The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co.'s bankruptcy trustee expects to have the railroad back in service

1192 (Aug. 3, 1988) Previous day - 1192 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchange in

Two units of Singapore's maritime-related Keppel Group report improvedfinancial results, buo

The Port of Oakland has approved an agreement with Naviera Pacifico CA, a Venezuelan ocean carrier.<

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. said it sold 90 of its Seabee system barges to two inland waterway towing

The International Chamber of Commerce has welcomed recent signs of an end to unprovoked attacks on i

PVC CONTAINER TALKS WITH POTENTIAL BUYEREATONTOWN, N.J. - PVC Container Corp. announced that

Dow Chemical Co. is bidding on a natural gas treatment plant in southern Argentina and on downstream

Air Products & Chemicals Inc. signed contracts worth about $40 million to supply two high-tonnage a