Latest news

Gaylord Container Corp. has acquired four plants and related inventories of the Container Products d

Borg-Warner Hikes ABS PricesPARKERSBURG, W.Va. - Borg-Warner Chemicals Inc. is increasing li

Amoco Corp. shut down one of its key ethylene cracking plants in Texas for 40 days. Accordin

Hanson Industries, the U.S. arm of Hanson PLC, announced the sale of certain companies comprising th

Gen-Probe Inc. and Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. of Tokyo have signed a $15.5 million research and produ

Ethyl Corp. announced several new plants and expansions at its bromine chemicals facility in Magnoli

Du Pont Seeks to Buy Champion Paper UnitWILMINGTON, Del. - E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. sai

REICHHOLD CHEMICALS INC. (White Plains, N.Y.) - Thomas R. Mitchell has been named president and chie

South Korea last year narrowed the gap by which it lags behind Japan as the world's second-largest s

Cashman Marine Works employees are a puzzled why a 1908 former Baltic sailing trader, raised from th

A U.S. Postal Service official says shipping all government mail on U.S. vessels could result in hig

Every piece of paper has two sides. But an electronic version of the same document has only one.

In the Tang Dynasty 1,000 years ago, boatmen carried rice and supplies to fight the northern barbari

The biggest shipping fraud in maritime history prompted a political science professor to trade the t

Shipping companies in Taiwan may be looking at smaller profits this year as the effects of the sharp

The Maritime Administration has approved the sale of three supertankers to Belmont VLCC, Boston, for

The head of Crowley Maritime Corp.'s Alaskan sea-lift operations was awarded the Thomas Crowley trop

HOW TO USE: These trade leads are supplied through the World Trade Center NETWORK, a service

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

ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE (New York) - Daniel J. McDade was named general manager, logistics. Previous

The Marine Index Bureau says it will expand its service to include towboat operators and inland wate

The governors of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania came away from a shipboard summit pledging to

Isuzu Truck of America Inc. said that Budget Rent a Truck of Chicago has purchased 500 Isuzu diesel

Transportation analysts are at odds over the effect that the driver shortage and rising wage costs w

Winona Bridge to Begin Seattle-Spokane ServiceFORT WORTH, Texas - Burlington Northern Railro

Back in 1983, some of the heavy hitters in Atlanta transportation circles came up with the ambitious

The Interstate Commerce Commission said it will allow Burlington Northern Inc. to sell its five mid-

Amtrak asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to condemn some 50 miles of track in

Ocean Transport & Trading PLC, the shipping and distribution group, announced a 29 percent rise in i

Greek seamen will receive an across-the-board 12 percent pay increase this year, under new collectiv

What is the likelihood that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's revolutionary thinking will lead to h

American importers are turning more to China and Mexico for non-rubber footwear than to their tradit

ALEXANDER & ALEXANDER INC. (New York) - Michael K. White was named chairman and chief executive at t

Michigan insurance agents voiced opposition Thursday to proposed administrative rules that would op

In a tenuous step toward deregulation, the Japanese Finance Ministry is reviewing the 50-year-old la

Medical malpractice insurance companies should be required to hire hospital monitors to police the d

The Illinois Insurance Exchange reported gross premiums of $13.7 million in February, down nearly 30

Carbide Weighs Appeal Of Court DecisionDANBURY, Conn. - Union Carbide Corp. said Monday it w

Farmers carried $6.07 billion worth of all-risk crop insurance in 1987 on a record 62 million acres

The U.S. dollar rose sharply Tuesday on the market's growing perception that the U.S. Federal Reserv