Commentary

In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, some U.S. pundits criticized Canada for what they saw as a

This is the first of a two-part column.Viewed from an inflatable dinghy a few hundred yards

June 1 marked an important milestone at the Port of Virginia. On that Wednesday, Hapag-Lloyd contain

A.P. Moller-Maersk's purchase of Royal P&O Nedlloyd will fundamentally change the face of global com

An airline industry strategist once told us about a unique operational problem he faced in his early

Cheap shot at TeamstersPeter Tirschwell takes a cheap shot (in his July 25 column, "The Team

It was the early 1900s when my grandfather, hoping to make a new and better life for his wife and si

The Government Accountability Office has struck a blow for open government. On June 29, the congress

China National Offshore Oil Corp.'s unsolicited $18.5 billion bid for Unocal is one of the more stun

President Bush was all smiles last week as he signed the Safe and Efficient Transportation Equity Ac

The Congestometer sounds like one of those plastic gizmos that they assemble with cheap labor in Asi

On July 29, Congress passed the $286.5 billion six-year highway bill known as SAFETEA-LU. The bill

Any celebrations for passage of the highway bill might start outside Anchorage, Alaska, at what has

In a speech on July 13 in which he unveiled the yet-to-be defined "Secure Freight" concept, Home-lan

When I was first elected to the California State Assembly in 1998, I carried a bill for the Californ

A former editor of mine called them "rainbow words" - euphemisms designed to make something sound be

This past month I had the unexpected pleasure of being invited by Renee Stein, global trade manager

"I believe that we can gather, fuse and assess more complete data from the global supply chain to de

You'll have to excuse us if we're floating on clouds this week because that, in a virtual way, is wh

Canal criticism not based on factsSound management welcomes constructive comments and critic

The recent tragic bombings in London have spurred U.S. decision-makers to ask whether our transporta

Asking questions is a big part of the job at The Journal of Commerce, or at any other news publicati

I may have relayed this anecdote before, but if so, it's worth repeating. After a late-night flight

A decade or so ago, everyone suddenly was in logistics - or claimed to be. Trucking companies, wareh

There is no question that the U.S. government, in conjunction with the transportation industry, has

A cover story in the June 20 Journal of Commerce on logistics-industry salaries triggered some inter

Diesel fuel prices offered shippers and carriers a mid-summer respite last week after the prices, an

The punch was telegraphed, but still packed a wallop. The long-threatened civil racketeering lawsuit

For many months now, leaders of the Port of Los Angeles, maritime industry representatives, labor an

No organization as large and diverse as U.S. Customs and Border Protection can reorient its mission

Amid the frustration, sadness and deservedly genuine anger among airline personnel who increasingly

My friend and colleague Ted Prince made some interesting and important comments on public investment

In looking to spin the reorganization of the Department of Homeland Security last week before the pl

What is remarkable and, to a jaded soul, surprising, is that in the summer of 2005, the headline on

For more than a decade, air-cargo executives have agonized over low yields and minuscule return on i

The attack would begin with a brilliant, blue-green finger of light slamming into a busy New Jersey

John Bowers and his cohorts at the International Longshoremen's Association couldn't have been happy

Think for a moment of a truck going down the highway as a kind of Rorschach test. If you're a shippe

It would be easy to look back at the backups at West Coast ports that were beginning to build this t

Not since the United States floated the dollar in the 1970s and threw the Bretton Woods system on th