Commentary

International letters of credit can be vexing, time-consuming and costly. And, according to Roy Beck

You're likely to hear a lot of debate in the coming weeks about President Bush's plan to implement t

Today's ocean transportation is a far cry from the era of iron men, wooden ships and cargo that had

The gathering crisis in Europe's airline business claimed another big scalp this past week with the

Trade Scene by Richard Lawrence A resurrection of 201 in '01?Section 201 of U.S. trade law

Joseph Miniace, president of the Pacific Maritime Association, made a very intuitive statement rece

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a case that is of major importance to the U.S. importing com

The transportation world, if not the entire United States, still is waiting for a national transport

It's been a long time, but finally there is confirmed word that CP Ships is about to enter the Asia-

Pop quiz: Which South American country grew the fastest in 2000? Brazil would be a popular guess. A

What's the real story? It's always interesting to watch the evolution of a fast-breaking news story.

It's now easier than ever to download and play music on your computer, with every Tom, Dick and Harr

January isn't even a month old yet, but already there has been an avalanche of major news stories af

Barely into the New Year, and enshrouded in lunar festivities as our Asian colleagues celebrate thei

Jim Giermanski says that entering goods to Mexico from the U.S. is like going the wrong way down a o

George A. Gecowets was not present at the creation, but he wasn't far behind. He reckons he was 'som

Thank you for the report on our 'PortSource' website for the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor complex (

Raymond Kelly, who resigned on the last full day of the Clinton administration, should be a poster b

In today's world of MP3 players, Walkmen, digital phones and boom boxes, there's one thing we never

The latest flare-up in the trans-Atlantic dispute over Airbus subsidies reinforced the impression in

In a push to gain a foothold in Eastern Europe, supply-chain management giant Exel announced in Dece

Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line, whose future has been the subject of more speculation th

What's in store for the eastbound trans-Pacific trade for 2001? That's a subject on many people's mi

Few shipping-industry relationships are as unusual as the one that exists between the International

On no other trade issue had the Clinton administration in recent months executed such major policy c

Some thoughtful people in the railroad industry are starting to come around to the view that competi

A while back, the folks at Hitachi America sent me an E-Plate handheld PC. Although the model they s

It should probably not come as much of a surprise that Fritz Cos., the perennially troubled San Fran

So it's rapped knuckles again for your guru, and we're only two weeks into the New Year. Yep, I rea

In Europe as elsewhere, customer demand to speed shipments is causing companies to review logistics

'Logistics is everything to us,' says Steve Schonholtz, president and CEO of Heads & Threads Interna

As a member of the Advisory Board to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy since 1995, I was startled to

Reply and rebuttal comments have been filed in the Surface Transportation Board's exercise to develo

Reply and rebuttal comments have been filed in the Surface Transportation Board's exercise to develo

I recently had a chance to play with the new @ctiveLink wireless messaging module from Glenayre ($42

News that shipyards in Italy, Germany, France and Spain are considering the establishment of a giant

Globalization has created many new trading regimes and left many others in its wake. Among the latte

Much has been said about the large quantity of new capacity being introduced onto the major East-Wes

Welcome to 2001! This is always an exhilarating time at The Journal of Commerce as we launch each ne

I started the new year with a fresh appointment calendar, but it wasn't easy. To buy it, I made the