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The Pentagon informed Congress it will probably take three additional years - until 1997 - to comple

Constantine S. Nicandros, president and chief executive of Conoco Inc., Monday called for compromise

The lines are drawn in what observers expect to be a protracted fight between the Massachusetts Port

The Interstate Commerce Commission chairman has suspended voting on a proposed 5.2 percent railroad

Insurance Equities Corp. has announced details of a new professional liability insurance program wit

A Ford Motor Co. official said the company is studying the possibility of offering a longer wheelbas

A backlog of about 500 trucks continued to wait for car ferry service across the English Channel whi

AUTOMATED MANIFEST SYSTEM. California United Terminals, online with the Customs Automated Manifest S

BANK LEUMI TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK (New York) - Mordecai Hacohen was named senior vice president of th

The Senate urged the Reagan administration Monday to open negotiations with the Soviet Union aimed a

The city of Pensacola will likely sever its ties to the port's purse strings this year, but official

Canada's 350-plus ports could be better rationalized if they were all brought under the umbrella of

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. plans to transfer the production of diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilizer from

US Environmentalists Urged to Help CanadaCanadian Environment Minister Tom McMillan over the

Australia's international airline Qantas is putting strong pressure on the Australian government to

March 21, 1988 Baltic International Freight Futures ExchangePrev.Close High

Five maritime unions raised a constitutional issue to support their legal challenge to the Reagan ad

More than 1 million color televisions, one of China's hottest consumer items, lie unwatched in wareh

Sharply higher prices for gold and copper spurred Benguet Corp. of the Philippines into profit for 1

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

BATUS Inc. said Monday in a prepared release that it has begun the solicitation of proxies from stoc

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

AVIATION The turbulence left by the Massachusetts Port Authority's decision to adopt new air

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

CASTLE SUPPLY & MARKETING INC. (Astoria, N.Y.) - Mark T. Stugart was named president, a new position

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday the Soviet Union may buy as much grain as it needs ab

The U.S. Customs Service said it will donate approximately $20 million in clothing to Third World co

Things are jumping these days at Chaparral Aviation's refurbished facilities. Rental cars aw

A story published in the March 11 edition of The Journal of Commerce incorrectly identified the name

Country Wide Transport Services Inc. reported fourth quarter income of $30,000, or 1 cent a share, o

A new scale for determining the rates charged by tanker operators on international voyages will take

Baxter Travenol Laboratories is building a second major glove manufacturing facility in Penang, Mala

The government-owned Keppel Group Ltd. of Singapore reports a substantially better year for its main

Kermit Mine Closing Puts 120 Out of WorkINEZ, Ky. - About 120 coal miners, most of them from

The trans-Panama pipeline, which carries Alaska oil across the isthmus en route to markets on the U.

The Montreal-based financial services conglomerate, Laurentian Group Corp., has slammed the brakes o

Detectives Wednesday said they demolished an auto theft ring dubbed the Hole in the Wall Gang, arres

Ford Motor Co. said it has scrapped plans to build a $73 million plant in Scotland because it failed

A Swedish architect and a cleaning-service company in Stockholm have developed a paint stripping met

Steel Imports Grew By 7 percent in JanuarySteel imports rose from December to January and we