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OIL PRICES EXPECTED TO REMAIN STEADYVIENNA, Austria - Oil prices for the second half of 1988

One of the nation's largest department store chains is going to start using national computer commun

IBM Agrees to Accept Certain PC Trade-insNEW YORK - International Business Machines Corp. ha

There is an enormous market potential for European drug sales by U.S. pharmaceutical companies under

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

Supplies of gasoline declined and distillate fuel increased, the latest weekly supply bulletin from

The $45.8 million deficit in U.S. pharmaceutical trade in the first quarter of 1988 was largely due

Procter & Gamble Co. and Gist-Brocades NV of Delft, Netherlands, have announced a licensing agreemen

CARBIDE HIKES PLASTICIZER PRICEDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp.'s UCAR Coatings Resins g

Production of ammonium perchlorate, a vital oxidizer for the fuel of the space shuttle booster rocke

OLIN SETS ALLOWANCE ON ISOCYANURATESTAMFORD, Conn. - Olin Corp. announced that it is institu

LyphoMed Inc. announced that it has received abbreviated new drug application, or ANDA, approvals fr

French state-owned chemical entity CDF-Chimie Group has joined the pool of companies seeking to take

MACMILLAN BLOEDEL TO BUILD BEAM FACTORYVANCOUVER, British Columbia - MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.'

The pharmaceutical wholesale industry has become a vital link between drug manufacturers and pharmac

Smiles all around were the order of the day at Bergesen d.y. after the Norwegian ship company report

The Coast Guard wants industry views on a proposed broadening of oil spill prevention rules to cover

12 LINES TO CONTINUE REVENUE-SHARING POOLThe 12 member lines of the South Europe/USA Pool Ag

Workers at Electric Boat Division shipyards in Connecticut and Rhode Island are being told the compa

IF THERE'S POLITICAL CONTROVERSY in the air, then this must be Port Everglades. Actually, th

For the first time in years, there appears to be some solid good news coming out of the inland barge

June 15, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

1276.0 (June 15, 1988) Previous day - 1279.0 The Baltic International Freight Futures Exchan

A congressional study office gave passing grades to the nation's truck safety inspection programs bu

LOW WATER STRANDS BARGES ON MISSISSIPPIGREENVILLE, Miss. - About 750 barges were backed up o

The leaders of the pack in the heavy truck industry found smaller competitors nipping at their marke

Shippers, barge operators and railroads increasingly are finding it mutually beneficial to work toge

The TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement said it is suspending surcharges on shipments to Bangkok,

Lend Lease Trucks Inc. wants to alter its image. The full-service truck lessor is carving ou

Steamship lines will be affected by a coming shortage of truck drivers, a trucking industry leader w

James Bouskos, a businessman who founded and ran an international trading company, has been named a

For Intercontainer, 1987 was a good year. Intercontainer, the container marketing organizati

Several hundred union longshoremen are expected in Jacksonville, Fla., this morning to protest what

The world will face critical shortages of major feed grains in response to changing food consumption

House Democrats Wednesday unveiled a proposal to use World Bank financing to win commercial bank loa

Daily Index Textiles Metals Misc.Smoothedpercent Change, 7.00

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

BRAZIL - $195 million from the World Bank for a $435 million irrigation project in the country's cen

The U.S. dollar was mixed in moderately active trading Wednesday due to uncertainty about the dollar

Bank of New York Co. said Wednesday that during direct talks with Irving Bank Corp., it had proposed