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State Comptroller Edward Regan said his office is going to "pass" on a request to look over the stat

A computerized materials handling system has reduced inventory costs and increased warehouse space b

The transistor age began 40 years ago this week when the human voice was amplified by an unlikely co

First National Bank of Boston, principal subsidiary of Bank of Boston Corp., announced the completio

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Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, under threat from Iran in the Persian Gulf war, have renewed an agreement t

Continuing uncertainty over oil prices doesn't seem to be curbing Indonesia's appetite for more.

Pennsylvania's two major coal associations announced they will merge to form a united organization r

Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. announced the acquisition of BCM Technologies Ltd.'s sodium chlor

Rural enterprises, China's large-scale experiment in weaning peasants from overcrowded farms, will r

Calif. Fertile Ground For Import Car DealersThe nation's most successful import vehicle fran

With a nervous maritime industry watching, 10 of the world's largest containerships came a step clos

Funding Plan Set For Clean CoalCongressional leaders have reached a funding compromise that

wA New York-based company is helping to spur China's increasing countertrade program with US$25 mill

Crude steel production by Japanese mills this fiscal year will top 100 million metric tons, a 4.7 pe

The bilateral textile accord announced over the weekend after a year of hard talking between China a

Frank Jones admits the garbage barge saga gave his Long Island town an environmental black eye. But

A freighter carrying logs northward to Borneo sank during a storm in the Java Sea, and all 55 people

Admiral Cruises Inc. plans to build a 44,300-ton "cruise ship of the future, said B.A. Chabot, Admir

Government and industry seem to have fought each other to a virtual standstill on the issues of tank

Dec. 21 Baltic International Freight Futures Exchangeprev.Close High Low

Negotiated spending cuts in the Department of Transportation's 1988 budget will fall hardest on Coas

Helicopter Hits Offshore Oil RigLAFAYETTE, La. - A helicopter carrying 15 men crashed and bu

Motorists nationwide were paying just under a dollar a gallon, on theaverage, for gasoline a

The U.S. dollar turned slightly higher at midday Monday, after drifting slightly lower earlier, but

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

Lloyd's of London and British insurance companies have welcomed an European Community agreement that

The six-month-long takeover battle for British Caledonian Airways was settled Monday when the BCal b

Once again, Guilford Transportation Industries Inc.finds itself at the center of a disruptive labor

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GM's Market Share In Europe Falls a BitGeneral Motors Corp. sold a record number of Opel and

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday announced the shipping schedule for sugar imported into th

MONITORING OF PASTA (TSUS 182.35 and 182.36) FROM EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNTRIES. Pasta imports classi

A seven-story hotel set sail Monday on a 2,175-mile voyage to open for business as a floating resort

A tank truck loaded with gasoline rolls over, the huge tank ruptures, and in a matter of minutes, hu

The U.S. government posted a total deficit of $25.77 billion for November, or lower than those of Oc

December 21, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gall

Efforts to revive the New York Insurance Exchange continued Monday, as insurance experts discussed w

Most of the recent news made by Pan American World Airways concerns efforts by management and others

After record airplane orders in 1986, this year was supposed to have been modest at The Boeing Co.,