Commentary

The Clinton administration just received a sharp reminder from a new quarter that the nation's curre

For years, companies focused on cost-cutting to improve profitability. To achieve those same results

On Oct. 1, Hapag-Lloyd will undergo the most radical transformation of its business in nearly 30 ye

As collective bargaining and the National Labor Relations Act have diminished in importance in labor

The latest formal efforts to put the stalled peace process in Northern Ireland back in motion are sc

James A. Dorn (''Expand trade relations between US and China,'' Aug. 17, Page 7) trotted out the sam

Earlier this year, President Clinton announced moves to enhance support of the Cuban people and prom

Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, angrily laid much of the blame in a major money-laundering s

The writer of the opinion article headlined ''Buying a car without price information'' (Aug. 31, Pag

It sounded pretty bad at the time. Somebody had made up a phony Bloomberg News Service Web page repo

Monday is Labor Day. While the holiday has come to signify the end of summer and the return to schoo

The Japanese yen has risen more than 12 percent against the dollar in the last three months, and the

Florida's tomato growers are giving new definition to ''vine ripe.'' In an effort to get tomatoes to

A group of top corporate executives has displayed unusual political courage by calling for an overha

Some numbers just hit you in the face. The U.S. labor force is projected to keep growing, reaching 1

The United States has sanctions affecting 70 countries, including China, to punish their ''misbehavi

Tim Sansbury's Aug. 9 article headlined ''AAPA chief hails dredging breakthrough'' (Page 3) discusse

The infamous Y2K is only a few months away. Is your PC ready?I've been playing with some pro

he U.S. Postal Service has no intention of issuing stamps that feature everybody's all-time favorite

What did people do before modern technology came along?Reuters reports that staff workers at

Cynthia Trudell says she has seen first-hand that company loyalty is a three-way street - for employ

Recent labor restiveness among intermodal truckers dramatizes how many ways truckers can get the sho

he United States and the European Union will soon resume talks on an issue with wide implications fo

Every U.S. farmer should stake out a place in line for the additional farm subsidies that could be h

Many traffic managers buy liner shipping services in much the same way you and I would purchase a ca

A funny thing happened on the way to privatization of Britain's 20,000-mile rail network.Bri

Across the waters from the beaches of the English coastal town of Margate last Tuesday morning, the

The outlook for Venezuela, its trading partners and its people looks increasingly grim. Internationa

Beneath the sandy, red soil where northern desert melts into southern greenery rests the potential f

What started as a simple security problem the other day at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport en

Women have been breaking precedents and making headlines recently - but the headlines themselves say

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott bridles whenever anyone mentions the ''ancient ethnic

Rep. Phil Crane, R-Ill., and colleagues asked for it, and they got it - from business, the AFL-CIO,

There have been six new entrants into the trans-Pacific container trades this year, and five existin

As Capt. Steve Barnes of the Gulfport, Miss., police put it, ''We're fortunate that some of these cr

The Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey is dedicated to serving a population that's o

For about four years now in transportation circles, there has been ongoing interest in the concept o

Allan Mendelsohn's opinion article of Aug. 3 (''The best way to update cargo-damage limits,'' Page 8

In Canada, a day without orange juice is like a day without . . . drugs?After an 18-month st

The United States, despite much rhetoric, still seems more concerned with negotiating new trade agre