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A senior aide to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita left for Washington on Thursday for talks aimed at

AVIATION The Transportation Secretary said Wednesday testimony was aimed at the FAA as an ag

Amtrak took the opening steps required to condemn track owned by Guilford Transportation Industries

Baker Fights Revealing Foreign Investor NamesTreasury Secretary James A. Baker III told Cong

The Supreme Court agreed to consider shielding states from having to help pay for cleaning up hazard

A leading spokesman for international ocean liner companies believes Europe and the United States ar

Ten Maryland coal producers have joined forces to market their coal abroad, and are planning a trip

Britain's Department of Energy announced details Thursday of the next round of offshore oil licenses

In the first two months of this year, 2,439 people and businesses - more than 60 every weekday - hav

Shipping Credit and Investment Co. of India, the soft-loan arm of the government, plans to raise som

WINCHESTER & WESTERN RAILROAD CO. (Bridgeton, N.J.) - W.P. (Phil) Light was named the company's new

Big Apple rail shippers could find someone else hauling their cargo as the Long Island Rail Road con

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

Diversified Swire Pacific Ltd. posted profits for the year through last Dec. 31 of HK$2.39 billion (

Log exports from British Columbia rose sharply in 1987, going from 2.6 million cubic meters the prev

Republicans failed Thursday in their attempt to link liability reform legislation to the employee he

SmithKline Beckman Corp. made a surprise bid to acquire International Clinical Laboratories Inc. for

WORD OUT OF SOUTH FLORIDA is that Linea Marlago, the independent Venezuelan container line, is regre

For the third year running there is more than a little concern about getting Americans to travel to

The Massachusetts Port Authority signaled a willingness to settle differences with the Department of

For the week ended March 12 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 1

Shipbuilding Orders Increased During 1987World shipbuilding orders in 1987 rose to an estima

A large surplus of table wine in the European Community will mean more competition for U.S. producer

1645.5 (March 24, 1988) Previous day - 1648.5 The Baltic International Freight Futures Excha

Malaysian International Shipping Corp. has reported record pretax profit of M$288 million (US$115 mi

New Jersey will likely join eight other states in their federal lawsuits against the insurance indus

IMAGINE GIVING A SPEECH on the insurance industry's image the day the bombshell burst. The b

The U.S. dollar fell to a four-month low against the yen as the foreign exchange market continued it

West Germany's plans to introduce a 10 percent withholding tax without repealing the existing stock

Japanese life and non-life insurance companies together will suffer $8 billion in overall exchange l

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Japan seeks an agreement with the United States by the end of March on opening the Japanese market w

Hitachi Ltd., a major Japanese electric machinery maker, said Thursday it will use semiconductors pr

Two Agriculture Department economists say the Soviet Union's agriculture is still in trouble despite

Virgin Islands to Buy Plant in St. CroixST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands - The U.S. Virgin Islands

More than 200 inquiries were received for Shanghai's first auction of land since the communist takeo

A West Virginia congressman pressed this week for enactment of a South Africa sanctions proposal tha

March 24, 1988 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

Occidental to Sell Colombia PropertiesOccidental Petroleum Corp. said it would sell 25 perce

Transportation Secretary James Burnley Thursday reiterated that his Wednesday testimony on Capitol H