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John Crosbie, Canada's transport minister, believes that rail passenger service is going to have to

Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. claimed victory after a first round of legal challenges to its selection

NJ Panel Questions Parkway Toll IncreaseTRENTON, N.J. - An Assembly committee has questioned

Tobacco companies see no harm in the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to overturn a lower-court decision

Charles McVey, who fled the United States before being charged with trying to sell sophisticated com

It doesn't appear the Georgia Ports Authority will find its terminal expansion plans caught in a pin

Freeman Hikes Polyester PricesFreeman Chemical Corp. is increasing prices on its Stypol line

M.W. Kellogg, a U.S. engineering company, is seeking approval from Argentina to construct and operat

Proposed regulations on spraying pesticides are as bothersome as pesky insects, a growing number of

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

The Subcommittee on Trade of the House Committee on Ways and Means will hold hearings Dec. 14 on the

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), the national carrier of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, is expected

Irwin Joffe was named president of Dawson International (U.S.A), a luxury knitwear distributing subs

December 8, 1987 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallo

First Pacific Holdings Ltd. is shelving indefinitely plans to sell San Francisco-based Hibernia Bank

Exxon's Utah Wildcat Yields Oil and GasExxon Co. U.S.A. said it completed a significant expl

American Trucking Associations unveiled a new five-point program to relieve a potential shortage of

A Pegasus-like spotted cow motif is infiltrating households here as more Chinese are won over by the

About 2,000 farmers from central Taiwan demonstrated outside the Legislature Tuesday to demand an im

Japan's GNP Grew By 2.0 percent in QuarterJapan's gross national product expanded at an infl

Maritime Agency Opens Houston District OfficeThe Federal Maritime Commission has a new distr

Steel production fell to 1.798 million tons in the week ended Dec. 5, a decrease of 3.8 percent from

Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. has informed insiders it plans to sell the Southern Pacific Transpor

China has become one of the few countries in the world to have the capability to produce 100,000 meg

Mohawk Valley Oil, Marcy, N.Y., acquired 10 million gallons of tankwagon fuel accounts from Herkimer

The focus of attention in the fierce battle for express business between the United Kingdom and Cont

Frank B. Hall & Co. Inc. will offer its common stockholders a $50 million offering of convertible pr

Some Asian countries may increase wheat imports due to a tightness in rice availability in the regio

Warner-Lambert Co. launched a $40 million expansion of its pharmaceutical manufacturing plants at Ve

Nearly two months after Black Monday, economists still seem dazed and confused about the causes of t

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

Tokyo Currency Swap Business BoomingTOKYO - Currency swap dealers in Tokyo are busy as inves

Swedish specialists have developed a small plastic hypodermic needle, which, placed subcutaneously o

RAILROADS ARE WATCHING the Teamster reaffiliation with the AFL-CIO closely. In recent months

Railroads and ports serving the Pacific Northwest say they'll have no trouble handling grain shipmen

A Canadian shipping industry spokesman, responding to deletion of maritime provisions from the draft

Western Gas Processors Ltd., said it will build natural gas gathering facilities in Sweetwater Count

The economy is expected to register "strong growth" in 1988, according to a semiannual survey of the

Four executives of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., including the company's president, were among the 44 people

British Petroleum Co. PLC disclosed it bought 14.9 percent of Britoil PLC stock and will make a tend