Commentary

n open letter to railroad customers from four major railroad companies inspires a visceral, non-tran

With war having been declared on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe-Canadian National merger by the fo

Moves that backfire, products that don't do what they ought to: These are serious mishaps that hurt

The World Trade Organization Trade Policy Review Mechanism - the TPRM - is potentially one of the mo

nly days into the new century, the two words that regularly dominated and distorted trans-Atlantic t

Europe continued to spring surprises into the new millennium, promising to be the continent to watch

t's not your usual case of a government declaring English the official language.Reuters repo

When Jesse Ventura was running for governor of Minnesota last year, the world-trade issue was off th

NEWS ITEM: The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues an advisory opinion that em

The New Year has started with a rush in the shipping world, and I, for one, am very pleased.

he issue presented a study in contrasts as the critical moment moment neared and passed.In W

Trade-wise, we may be about to be treated to the most productive session of Congress in more than ha

On the threshold of a new century and new millennium, global environmentalists continue to see human

o, it wasn't the feared Y2K computer bug. Unfortunately, it might have been easier to understand and

n a turnabout, the Mexican liquor tequila is gaining status as a sophisticate's drink - just as it i

The battle over Internet taxation is in full swing.Proponents argue that standard retail sto

The following comments are in response to ''The high cost of complete equality: freedom'' by Robyn B

Clearly, the Federal Maritime Commission wants a controversial shipping-rates issue to go away. Just

As the debate heats up on China's membership in the World Trade Organization, it is already clear th

The transfer of sovereign authority over Hong Kong from Great Britain to the People's Republic of Ch

Once upon a time, back in the 1960s, I set forth as a lifelong rail buff to save the American passen

Did attitudes come full circle in the 20th century? It seems so. In the United States and Western Eu

This is a make-or-break, all-or-nothing year for Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi.He has

1999 was traumatic to several segments of our industry. This year looks to be no different.L

Grandpa, what was the Internet?Oh, that was long ago, in the last century. It was something

igh-tech consultants weren't the only ones to benefit from the Y2K bug, it turns out. In at least on

he International Monetary Fund's biggest borrowers rank high in the corruption index published by Tr

Sometimes I think it's just time to go to the videotape:Y2K ''is a relatively straightforwar

''No profit grows where is no pleasure taken,'' writes the oldest, and yet newest, business consulta

When President Clinton announced the Partnership for Economic Growth and Opportunity in Africa in 19

For decades the United States has carried the standard of promoting democracy, market liberalization

The reaction of many in the railroad industry and on Wall Street to last week's order by the Surface

It is not possible to take a short lunch break while reading The Journal of Commerce anymore. Every

hipping lines calling at California ports must now comply with costly regulations designed to preven

History books will record that the last important international event of the second millennium was a

or most of the past year, readers and television viewers heard a great deal - perhaps a great deal t

Wouldn't it be nice to start out the new millennium secure in the knowledge we had turned our backs

The 100 years that just ended were widely regarded as the American century, as the United States ros

For the hundreds of thousands of emigrants who left a poverty-stricken, near-bankrupt nation behind

Who may be liable if an equipment failure of the chassis in a tractor-trailer rig causes an accident