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A Long Island, N.Y., shippers' group is hoping ongoing rail improvements will help area railroads ca

Oil prices plummeted for the third straight day Wednesday, as a key U.S. refiner cut its crude oil p

Two small southern railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to conduct a full-scale review

Chrysler Canada Ltd. could be charged under Canadian law if it refuses to compensate about 6,100 Can

A collective sigh of relief is being let out by Canadian truckers now that trucking has been exclude

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

The U.S. dollar slumped to a record low against the yen while weakening against other key currencies

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

Michael S. Dukakis is unusual among the large field of presidential hopefuls in that he has enunciat

AT&T Bell Laboratories announced Wednesday it has built an experimental system that can transmit sig

Medigap Cover Costs Linked to Age in Md.Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland will begin ma

Declining grain production forced China to reverse past practice and import chemical fertilizer heav

A Pakistani resident of Toronto accused of trying to export metals used in nuclear weapons has denie

Autos Lead Surge In UK ManufacturingBritish manufacturing output is growing at its fastest r

Baltimore's cargo volume this year will be about the same as last year, while the number of automobi

A couple of warrior beetles from South Korea are being used to fight tiny sucking insects that threa

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

The eight-man crew of the Panamanian-registered freighter Roberto was in good condition here Wednesd

Scientists conducted a second outdoor test of genetically altered bacteria designed to inhibit frost

Pennwalt Corp. announced that it has acquired a $50-million-a-year line of fungicides, insecticides

Federal Paper Board Co. announced that its board of directors have approved the continuation of a $4

The director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization recently urged industri

Puget Sound Power & Light Co. is conducting test burns of Montana coal at two Centralia, Wash., powe

FTC to Relax Terms Of General Signal OrderThe Federal Trade Commission agreed to relax the t

An Iranian gunboat Wednesday attacked a Greek-flagged tanker with rocket- propelled grenades in the

Kenneth E. Lord, a member on the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, died Tuesday. He was 54

Western commercial banks are giving Brazil $3 billion worth of new financing in exchange for assuran

An emergency government program to slow inflation and spur growth may not produce the desired short-

Careful shopping for homeowners' insurance can yield large savings, according to a survey by the sta

HONG KONG - Ronald Li, the flamboyant and controversial chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, st

Postmaster General Preston R. Tisch charged Wednesday that federal Budget Director James C. Miller "

Evergreen International (U.S.A.) Corp. has cast the latest link in an electronic chain that will eve

Air France Agrees To Buy 16 Boeing JetsPARIS - Air France has reached a $2 billion agreement

Faced with falling sales because the soaring yen, Japanese export manufacturers are adapting new str

The United States and Canada reached an agreement Wednesday to remove export charges of 15 percent o

A membership revolt that ousted the leaders of the largest dockworkers local in Baltimore will not m

Phillips Petroleum Co. Wednesday announced a reduction in its work force by 7 percent to 10 percent,

Amoco Corp., indicating it believes this week's plunge in oil prices won't last, announced a 15 perc

Abu Dhabi appears to be the first member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to not

Nearly 3 million tons of shipping has been sunk or written off in the Persian Gulf since July in the