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Martin Marietta Plans '88 Capital OutlaysMartin Marietta Corp.'s board of directors has budg

Labor Aspects Prompt C&NW to Delay SaleChicago and North Western Transportation Co. is delay

Gasoline Prices Stable in Mass.Massachusetts gasoline prices remained stable just before Chr

The Railroaders Memorial Museum offered the ultimate Christmas gift for the train enthusiast tired o

For the week ended Dec. 12 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Ocean shippers will not see freight rates fall the way the price of oil is falling, the maritime ind

Haecon Will Study Ghent Port ProblemsGHENT, Belgium - The city council has engaged the firm

Yugoslavia's government has notified Parliament that it supports calls for a halt to building nuclea

Coal exporters using terminals on the lower Mississippi River south of New Orleans are celebrating

Final legal briefs were filed Thursday in a landmark asbestos liability trial involving four manufac

Although 1987 is not yet ended, the Massachusetts Port Authority has already achieved one of its 198

President Reagan imposed duties on about $100 million worth of imports from the European Community o

An apprentice mate was running the ferry Dona Paz when it collided with an oil tanker and sank, kill

The trade association representing U.S.-owned and controlled foreign-flag ships says present U.S. po

Prairie Maritime Corp. will set up a stevedore operation at the port of Chicago in an attempt to att

George Combs is one of a few lucky Coast Guard crewmembers who get paid to be a couch potato - at le

SAN FRANCISCO - Bank of America named Frederick Chan, a vice president, as its new Beijing represent

The Federal Maritime Commission disclosed that it had settled a complaint against Crowley Caribbean

Dyncorp, formerly Dynalectron Corp., said its HRI Inc. subsidiary has discontinued the development o

Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey took emergency action to reallocate $21.7 million in state funds t

BPU OK's Rate Hike For NJ Natural GasNEWARK, N.J. - The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities

The chemical industry as a whole will benefit from the recent drop in oil prices but that gain will

The first cargo of liquefied natural gas in just over a year is due to arrive today at the Distriga

Japan's oil companies have postponed negotiations for oil imports in the first quarter of 1988 becau

The battle between Pratt & Whitney and General Electric Co. for dominance in the large jet engine bu

Standard & Poor's said it is re-examining major commercial bank ratings as to the adequacy of their

Butcher & Co., one of Philadelphia's oldest and largest brokerage houses, announced that a billionai

Japan's production of electronic goods including color TVs, video tape recorders and compact discs w

India's dress style for hundreds of years has been six yards of fabric wrapped into a sari. It hardl

Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. said its unconsolidated pretax profit for the business year ended Oct. 31

U.S. manufacturers, who have taken a beating in the 1980s, are finally getting a break. And

The two weeks before Christmas, when the oil markets swung by more than $3 a barrel, were a foretast

The earnings of property and casualty insurers will show a sharp upturn in 1987 despite a slowdown i

Cargo totals are expected to be down at New York-New Jersey port this year, but port officials hope

Amoco Oil Co. will start shipping asphalt through the port of Milwaukee starting April 1, marking th

Three Illinois companies have joined in an unusual program to foster expansion by foreign companies

Secret Deal Alleged On ATV SafeguardsCAMDEN, N.J. - U.S. Rep. James J. Florio, D-N.J., said

The fall in oil prices is being shrugged off in Britain as of little overall consequence and welcome

Net new orders for U.S.-built machine tools plummeted 48.7 percent in November from the October leve

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