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Nominations Open For Seamanship AwardNominations for the 1988 American Merchant Marine Seama

The possibility of a strike at Pan American World Airways looms larger. Last Thursday Pan Am

A West German charter airline, Lufttransport-Unternehmen, or LTU, last week ordered three Boeing 767

WITH THEIR BACKS to the windows facing New York harbor, the five men stood in a semi-circle making s

Douglas Aircraft Co. had a double-barreled reason for adopting electronic data interchange technolog

Peru's Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) opposes efforts by a privately owned Peruvian-flag o

Brown & Root of Houston wants to sell its 12,154-deadweight-ton barge Bar 331 to London-based Europe

Miles Inc. will expand citric acid production capacity by 50 million pounds at existing facilities,

Greater freedom in using Teamsters workers heads the list of cost-cutting measures trucking employer

Erbamont NV's five-year $60 million product development plans in Japan were bolstered by a recent ag

Consumption of U.S.-produced fertilizer was greater for all major nutrient groups for the July-Decem

Virgin Atlantic, the independent British airline, is adding over 20 new cargo destinations this mont

Net Income Doubles For Owens FiberglasTOLEDO, Ohio - Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.'s fourth-

NY State May Ban PVC Food PackagingALBANY, N.Y. - The New York state legislature is consider

Defendants in a waterfront racketeering trial will turn FBI wiretap recordings to their own use this

Skyway Freight Systems Inc. sees a further expansion of its data logistics services now that it is a

Ky. Supreme Court Overturns Highway TaxThe Kentucky Supreme Court overturned a highway user

In the long term, one of the most important issues involving the Panama Canal is what will happen wh

Officials at the Massachusetts Port Authority and McAllister Brothers Inc. in New York said they hav

Japan's 1988 gold imports are expected to be at or slightly above 1987 levels as domestic demand is

China will introduce color-coded customs forms starting March 1 to help it track its various types o

The International Trade Commission is about to release a series of reports that could influence futu

Japanese life insurance companies plan to purchase at least the usual volume of U.S. Treasury bonds

U.S. sheep growers face an increasing threat from predators" who are attacking the largest market fo

The dollar settled into a trading range last week, following the Jan. 15 announcement of a surprisin

Mutual funds that invest in futures averaged a 39.5 percent increase in value last year, outstrippin

Austrian developers have come up with a measuring device that can determine the strength of a road's

A United Nations agency will help develop a semiconductor technology center in Malaysia, already one

Hearings and deadline dates for pending U.S. International Trade Commission investigations:*

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

Chinese Cotton Exports Expected to ContinueChina will continue trying to produce cotton for

The U.S. Customs Service named Robert E. Mall assistant regional commissioner for operations in the

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

Mexicans Go to Tokyo To Discuss Debt PlanTOKYO - A Mexican government delegation is visiting

An organized labor movement that continues to represent a smaller share of the nation's work force l

The U.S. economy may slip into a recession in the early part of this year, Federal Reserve Board Gov

Britain's Trade Minister said at the weekend that Airbus Industrie, a consortium of four European ai

AVIATION A British minister said Airbus will pay off some of its loans from the British gove

Hearings Open Today On Nuclear TreatyThe Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committ

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee,plans to hold a ma