Latest news

The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is expected to start operating by next spr

The National Transportation Safety Board staff wants the board to schedule a field hearing into the

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Rail shippers in New England are reaching out, with little apparent success, to state and federal au

New England shippers who rely on railroad transportation again find themselves hostages to the warfa

U.S. sugar producers and processors praised congressional action providing for the importation of up

Officials of the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. and of the three major potential buyers of the Sout

Atlantic States Association of Rail Shippers, annual seminar, Jan. 13, Hershey Philadelphia Hotel, P

The United Mine Workers, whose national coal contract expires Jan. 31, is in a strong bargaining pos

The European Community has extended for 20 years a 1977 exemption under its competition rules for a

An Energy Department report on alternative transportation fuels does not bode well for the use of co

U.S. shipbuilders, battered almost to extinction in recent years, say all they need from the Reagan

A proposed settlement between the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Japanese makers of all-terr

A new Brazilian law extending copyright protection to foreign computer software may make life more d

Europe Container Terminus of Rotterdam has won the bitterly contested battle among three major North

Hoechst Licenses Himont ProcessWILMINGTON, Del. - Himont Inc. and Hoechst AG have completed

The Liposome Co. has entered into a development and licensing agreement with Taisho Pharmaceutical C

A memorial service will be held Dec. 29 for Norman Stone, a former transportation executive and West

The Federal Maritime Commission, already well along the way toward an electronically automated tarif

International Transportation Service, a terminal operator at the port of Long Beach, has applied for

EPI Issues Stock As Restructuring MoveRICHARDSON, Texas - Environmental Processing Inc. anno

Stock index futures did not cause or accelerate the stock market crash of Oct. 19, according to the

If British children don't wake up to find a game of Dingbats under the tree on Christmas morning the

Two days after one of the worst sea disasters this century, maritime officials say they hope both th

The U.S. government will have to identify, quickly and publicly, the countries that discriminate aga

New orders for durable goods from U.S. manufacturers were virtually unchanged in November at a seaso

A crop of aggressive youngsters is carrying the ball for three southern states determined to export

B.F. Goodrich Co. said Tuesday that it plans to sell its 50 percent interest in the Uniroyal Goodric

One obvious reason for the Reagan administration's shift to a more aggressive trade stance is the ch

One side effect of the new collapse in oil prices may be to put a ceiling over soaring spot natural

Iraqi bombers on a rare long-distance raid set fire Tuesday to four supertankers used for storage at

Tight Mart Spurs Ethylene PricesA tight U.S. market for ethylene has pushed prices up to a r

A compromise plan to provide health care to all Massachusetts residents by 1992 has been passed by t

It is palpably wrong to think of air freight in isolation from the surface freight modes. Together t

David W. Davis, Massachusetts Port Authority executive director, says he will push for a combined ga

When Chairman Stephen M. Wolf and Tiger International Inc. parted company last week, the air cargo c

Eastern Airlines management, breaking more than a month of silence, has asked the machinists union t

Stacked in huge steel containers seven levels high below deck and five high above, America's product

The Interstate Commerce Commission Tuesday rejected rail labor's bid for labor-protection benefits f

WORLD BANK INDIA - $200 million from the World Bank and $160 million from the bank's Interna