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KLM Places Order For Three BoeingsSEATTLE - KLM has ordered three new airliners from Boeing

The New Hampshire Port Authority says it needs to expand its one-berth pier facility, but state offi

Air Products Hikes Prices in CanadaALLENTOWN, Pa. - Air Products & Chemicals Inc. will incre

Exxon Co. U.S.A., a division of Exxon Corp., said it acquired deep natural gas reserves and related

Information is the best lubricant for today's high-tech manufacturing systems, speakers at a recent

An Ohio Blue Cross insurer filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the national Blue Cross associ

BANK LEUMI TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK (New York) - Meir Heth was elected chairman of the board at the ban

Chrysler Motors Corp. will raise the prices of its 1988 imported Mitsubishi- bui lt passenger cars b

U.S. popcorn manufacturers are embarking on an export drive to capture untapped foreign markets, spu

Central banks have begun to concentrate on the risk of inflation rather than the danger of recession

SILVER USERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) - E. Richard Rosenblatt was elected president of the sil

Grain analysts are estimating a slight increase in the 1988 U.S. winter wheat harvest to 1.578 billi

Textile Quotas to Watch as of 5/7/88* Fully Utilized Textile Quotas as of 5/7/88* Reflects c

The top imperative for the Port of Philadelphia over the next six months will be for the marine term

Elite to Boost Capacity Of Australian PlantWATERTOWN, Mass. - Elite Chemicals Pty. will doub

Oil Insurance Ltd., a mutual insurer owned by 48 oil companies, provided coverage for the Shell Oil

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

Global economic upheavals such as the October stock market collapse show that the world urgently nee

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Faltering U.S. toy companies proved no fun for the colony's export credit agency in its most recent

Commerce Secretary C. William Verity urged Chinese leaders Monday to improve China's trade and inves

This index alphabetically lists all companies and other operating organizations such as ports mentio

For February 1988 vs. February 1987 (In Metric Tons - Via Ocean)Rank CommodityFeb. 8

Larry Ripley had just steered his tank truck into a Howard Johnson's hotel parking lot not far from

Staley in Buy-out Talks To Thwart TakeoverROLLING MEADOWS, Ill.- Staley Continental Inc., a

A Belgian laboratory has developed a sugar beet that resists herbicides, claiming it will represent

The Defense Ministry plans to take over the La Seyne shipyard on the Mediterranean, one of the three

A new Minnesota law that will ban plastic foam packaging made with chlorofluorocarbons isn't creatin

There are four key market trends that will fuel growth of engineering thermoplastics well into the 1

Federal Express Corp. has postponed indefinitely inauguration of express package service to Tokyo un

El Al, the Israel government-owned airline, appears to have turned the corner. In 1988, for

Hewlett-Packard Fails In Move vs. HyPointCLEVELAND - The United States Court of Appeals in C

The Bundesbank is likely to breach its 1988 growth target of 3 percent to 6 percent for its broad mo

AVIATION Air courier companies are increasingly concerned about their unwitting participatio

California ports have lined up solidly against a proposal to install a truck regulating system to de

U.S. District Judge Richard Owen rejected a plea to move a $92.8 million dispute over a decimal poin

Competitors have grudgingly called Ford Motor Co.'s decision to build its popular Cargo commercial t

Truckers seem resigned to the fact that shippers tucked into tiny outposts overseas will pack a cont

Soybeans Sunflower seed and soybeans. A trading firm with total annual volume of imports up

When the representative of a Peruvian firm arrived to pick up his package, Hector Orlansky, the pres