Commentary

You've just made a large sale and had 20,000 yards of fabric delivered to one of your customers. A m

Now, granted, this may mean that I've been working for the ''cargo-centric'' Journal of Commerce too

Many commentators have suggested that the South Korean government's decision to help arrange a credi

Every American who ever served in our merchant marine owes you at least a tip of his hat for your ed

In the drought-stricken Northeast's Galloway Township, N.J., a homeowner has found a way to save wat

Today likely will see the official ratification of a three-year contract between the International L

There's more where that came from.The Federal Reserve's quarter-point increase in interest r

World air travel figures are following other demographics such as affluent-population bulges. As a r

Britain's Nanny State has struck again.Only a few short months after making a fool of itself

Container carriers are taking it on the financial chin for a variety of reasons these days, but two

The truck strike that just ended at the Port of Vancouver shined a light on a rough spot in the inte

I've always been puzzled by dpi (dots per square inch) designations when it comes to the output of c

Dennis T. Avery claims in his recent flurry against Gerber's decision to reject biotech food, and hi

Amid the economic and political turmoil plaguing Japan for the past few years, the thoughts of the a

The United States set another monthly trade deficit record in June, $24.6 billion. The Commerce Depa

No news really is good news.Only a few weeks ago, newspaper headlines tracked the quicksand

Architects, engineers and construction workers have just brought Europe a little closer. Unfortunate

Given August's earthquake in Turkey, tornado in Salt Lake City and hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico,

Who says the costs and rates of a Jones Act service have to be sky-high?The decision by Edwa

Snow White's wicked stepmother may have been skewered for watching the mirror, but in millennial Ame

At the turn of the century, mass manufacturers controlled a demand economy. Consumers bought whateve

President Clinton mixed the bad with the good last week when he signed the Water Resources Developme

Malaysia's experiment with capital and foreign-exchange controls flies in the face of a 25-year glob

Dogs aren't the only dangers that mail carriers face in the central English town of Mansfield. They'

When I went to Bosnia-Herzegovina last spring, I got a valuable piece of advice: Don't pay by credit

If you have never heard of Weiliang Yang, you could be forgiven.And if you find it difficult

Some linguists claim that the name Finland comes from the French ''fin,'' the end, meaning the natio

The latest efforts from Washington to deal with steel-imports are both nimble and Herculean, attempt

It's not every day that a maritime operational issue rises to a level of importance where those who

On the way to the Y2K conference, I heard a radio report that some Canadians had invented windup AM

Perhaps the clearest evidence that the Cold War is over can be found in American trade statistics. U

It's recorded that when a ruler was confronted by an enemy in very ancient times in China, he would

A natural course of reactions to immense tragedies like the earthquake in Turkey is horror, followed

The planned dismantling of the heavily indebted Daewoo Group is the most encouraging sign to date th

The U.S. merchant marine at the millennium is a merchant marine with a glorious past, a precarious p

In my 15 years of handling employment matters, including a decade on Capitol Hill, I have become fam

Although he is pictured in the American media as a moderate, Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great

I'll never understand folks from California. Maybe it's something in the water, or overexposure to t

It didn't take away from his intentions, but a verbal misstep by President Clinton in his tribute to

Next week in San Francisco the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) will hold its annual m