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U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, despite their incredible size, are becoming adept at a form of magic.

Seven companies applied recently to the Federal Maritime Commission for licenses to act as independe

Fruehauf Board Weighs Competing BidsA special committee of Fruehauf Corp.'s board of directo

Heavy truck traffic has increased between 40 percent and 50 percent on Interstate 95 since the state

Industry officials are divided over who will pick up the pieces of General Motors Corp.'s market sha

The California Highway Patrol said it found more than 1,000 safety violations when it checked 452 tr

Canadian National Railways said second quarter profit rose to C$59.9 million (US$43.1 million) from

Sihanouk in Jakarta JAKARTA, Indonesia - Prince Norodom Sihanouk, president of the tri-parti

Fears that Brazilian exports would be hurt by booming domestic consumer demand are proving to be unf

Brazil is moving cautiously to adjust overloaded industrial capacity to booming demand, slowly lower

Australia lifted a three-year ban on uranium exports to France, conceding that the sanction didn't w

Major service expansions by United Airlines and Alaska Airlines are forcing the Port of Seattle to s

Australians are getting ready for what has been billed as the toughest national budget in half a cen

Quaker Oats Acquires Maker of Rice-A-RoniSAN LEANDRO, Calif. - Golden Grain Macaroni Co., a

Agreement appears to be nearing in the high-stakes struggle over California's decades-old unitary me

Representatives of the Reagan administration warned that retaliatory measures against Japan may be f

The United States and Japan agreed Tuesday to set up a joint monitoring system to determine whether

and they are expected to do so in coming weeks - Australian farmers undoubtedly will lose export sal

Taiwan will stop buying corn from the United States if corn farmers there continue to support trade

President Reagan's decision to build a $2.8 billion replacement shuttle for Challenger will mean at

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public comments to help design next year's feed grain

Matson Navigation Co. Inc. said it believes grounds are lacking for the Federal Maritime Commission

The Coast Guard refused to let two of the Navy's Military Sealift Command pre-positioning ships ente

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials are not surprised by the U.S.S.R.'s failure so far to buy w

A/S Ivarans Rederi wants the Federal Maritime Commission to act to block the collection of a stiff $

Responding to the industry's ongoing financial difficulties, the head of the All Japan Seamen's Unio

Tuna Resourcing Inc. of St. Louis asked the Maritime Administration for permission to sell its 1,219

The boat having engine trouble? Need a place to wait out the doldrums? Someone to talk to? Money? Ne

The Department of Interior, despite strong objections from its regional office here, agreed to deed

Sun Co. raised the posted purchase price for West Texas Intermediate crude by $1 to $14.25 a barrel.

Despite disappointing results so far, China holds some of the world's most promising petroleum areas

Duke Power Co.'s Catawba Nuclear Station unit began full-service operation Tuesday. The 1,14

Employees of the offshore oil company, Dolphin A/S of Tananger, received a shock Tuesday when it was

China signed seven oil contracts with groups formed by 14 international oil companies in the second

Texaco Refining Raises Several Crude PostingsTexaco Refining and Marketing Co. raised the po

Twenty-four insurers told the California Insurance Department that they will begin, or will continue

The port's Terminal 1 should be converted into a public facility for use by cruise and tour boats, a

A gloss of unanimity for the goal of funding catastrophic and long-term health insurance benefits ca

Rep. James J. Florio, D-N.J., wants Congress to open settlement files in civil justice cases. If ado

A Federal Maritime Commission investigation into practices of a single ocean carrier rate conference