Commentary

Like a zoom lens, human faces reveal the condition of a society better than a Nobel-prize winning hi

Now that Washington and Beijing have reached agreement concerning accession of the People's Republic

Thanksgiving is Thursday, and in many American homes plans are in full swing to celebrate our nation

t may seem curious that the workers who physically handle a large chunk of the nation's internationa

You're in a concert hall, the conductor comes out, he raises his baton, the orchestra is poised to b

''Take us to the reservation or fight!''That was the last offer by the greatest fighter who

My compliments on a well-done article about the bulk shipping market (''Market revives along with As

The air is thick with plaudits for the progress that has been made toward peace in Northern Ireland

In recent weeks, a vigorous debate has unfolded about the relationship of trade and the environment.

We in shipping are in an industry that cannot seem to find consistent profit making - even in period

Watching the slow, tortuous pace of action in Washington, it's sometimes easy to forget that fundame

Earlier this month, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, titular head of the Institutional Revolutiona

Many ocean-transportation intermediaries (OTIs) remain bitter about the ''carefully crafted compromi

In ''NIT League head: No changes for OSRA on horizon'' (Nov. 17, Page 23), Ed Emmett suggested that

The mystery of why EgyptAir Flight 990 dove into the Atlantic, killing the 217 people aboard, is onl

Over the years, the Agriculture Department has regularly announced its annual sugar tariff rate impo

A certain shipping line called me a couple of Sundays ago (no prizes for guessing the company name).

he U.S. Customs Service has begun a final push to get shippers to sign up for its Automated Export S

The Clinton administration released a study recently on the environmental impact of free trade that

As intensive talks continue in preparation for the upcoming World Trade Organization summit in Seatt

The Chinese market is an apt candidate for rapid industrial growth. But there are also a number of f

The pressure groups about to descend on Seattle are not the only ones threatening the launch of seri

Regrettably, National Trade Education Day came and went last week without making much of a ripple in

There are few issues that better reveal the importing community's second-rate status in Washington t

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounded positively giddy in press reports of her rem

As Congress debates a bill to allow the U.S. Postal Service to enter new markets, a report to lawmak

Several recent industry developments serve to remind us that the transportation industry is more fam

Britons are an easy lot to please if the results of a survey of national lottery winners are any ind

I was listening to a news report. United Parcel Service stock had hit the market with a bang in the

''Blacklisting'' regulations promised by Vice President Al Gore to the AFL-CIO Executive Council are

Anybody who reads this column regularly knows that I am not exactly the biggest fan of Microsoft. So

After more than 30 years as a key catalyst of regional economic development, the Asian Development B

Talk about slow-moving inventory: A Florida food company was asked in 1962, during the fearful days

We're a nation of snoopers. When visiting someone's home, four out of 10 Americans can't resist the

The Jones Act, which provides a protective cocoon for the U.S. shipbuilding industry through a build

Brian Doherty's recent opinion piece, ''Clubbing America with the anti-sprawl agenda' (Nov. 4, Page

Universal serial bus (USB) technology may finally be living up to all the hype.It seems like

I had a call last week from someone who reckons he has his finger on the Mediterranean container pul

The flap in California over automated-teller-machine fees is instructive. But the way it's going, no

Perhaps more so than any other U.S. metropolis, New York City - a harbor, a destination for immigran