Paul Page

Editorial Director – Leading the editorial strategy for The Journal of Commerce, Paul’s award winning coverage of all modes of transportation, logistics and trade, is uniquely comprehensive. Backed by use of data-supported analysis, Paul’s mission is to provide transparency to the very complex trade and transportation industry.  

  • Off-Road, for Wal-Mart
    Paul Page |
    Jan 31, 2012 10:05PM GMT
    Not many people are fooled by the announcements that corporate executives, football managers and others are leaving jobs paying big salaries to, as the line goes, “spend more time with my family.” But Wal-Mart’s announcement a couple of weeks ago that Brian Cornell, 52, was...
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  • Globalization and its Disconnects
    Paul Page |
    Jan 29, 2012 7:26PM GMT
    Tom Friedman raises a provocative question in his column in The New York Times on Sunday, asking whether the politicians who talk so much about private sector jobs really understand the big drivers of globalization, manufacturing and how jobs are created in today’s world. He asks the...
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  • Packaging IKEA's Supply Chain
    Paul Page |
    Nov 4, 2011 1:16PM GMT
    You don’t often see close looks at how corporate culture influences a company’s supply chain, and you see insightful, perceptive pieces even less often. The profile of the IKEA in the Oct. 3 edition of The New Yorker wasn’t really a supply chain article, but in diving into the...
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  • Hong Kong, Twice Cooked?
    Paul Page |
    Nov 1, 2011 11:13PM GMT
    The Hong Kong Development Council’s annual Asian Logistics and Maritime Conference is coming up in a couple of weeks, and it comes at what looks to be a critical time of change in one of the world’s great trading cities. Hong Kong officials have been playing up the city’s...
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  • Container Ships and Airlines
    Paul Page |
    Oct 18, 2011 5:10PM GMT
    The bizarre comparisons between the container shipping industry and passenger airline service are coming too often to ignore. Yet another speaker, this one at The Journal of Commerce TPM Asia event in Shenzhen, made that curious link last week, lamenting that the shipping business needs to take a...
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  • The Protectionism Equation
    Paul Page |
    Oct 6, 2011 2:24PM GMT
    Is there a bright line between fostering local business and trade protectionism? Where does one end and the other begin? That’s a question behind the growing talk about near-sourcing — one of the hot topics these days in supply chains — and its impact on manufacturing and trade...
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  • UP's Grand Circle
    Paul Page |
    Aug 12, 2011 8:33PM GMT
    Vacations are supposed to take you away from your job, but when you work in transportation and design a family road trip in the American Southwest the shipping business can turn up in surprising ways. This summer, it wasn’t that Lake Powell at Page, Ariz., (yes, Page, Ariz.) had a container...
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  • Golden Spiked
    Paul Page |
    Jul 20, 2011 9:53PM GMT
    It’s accepted faith that the railroads helped build the American industrial economy with their push toward transcontinental networks. The driving of the Golden Spike, after all, is one of the iconic moments of the United States expansion westward in the 19th century. Richard White says that...
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  • Following Ray LaHood
    Paul Page |
    Jul 7, 2011 7:26PM GMT
    Anyone who follows Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood must agree he has no peer in the Cabinet or anywhere in government when it comes to supporting the infrastructure of social media. With more than 21,000 followers on Twitter and countless friends on Facebook, Ray LaHood is the Ashton Kutcher...
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  • Rose's Studied Silence
    Paul Page |
    Jul 1, 2011 5:27PM GMT
    Where in the world is Peter Rose? The chairman and CEO of Expeditors International of Washington gained something of a cult following in the world of trade, shipping and logistics — and in investing — for his blunt-spoken, keenly intelligent and even more sharply cutting quarterly...
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  • Crane's Double Play
    Paul Page |
    May 17, 2011 7:43PM GMT
    Jim Crane made it back into freight forwarding after he lost an epic battle for his company, and now he’s made it back into the sports world. Crane, the former chairman of Eagle Global Logistics, won a bid this week to buy the Houston Astros. He is the leader of a group that will pay $680...
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  • Mexico's Insecurity
    Paul Page |
    Mar 14, 2011 2:48PM GMT
    The Transported Assets Protection Association's two-day meeting in San Diego this month looking at U.S.-Mexico cross-border security couldn't have been more timely. The rising violence driven by warring drug cartels has turned some areas of Mexico into something resembling war zones, putting a...
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