Commentary

It was just over 10 years ago that Central and Eastern Europe embarked on the unprecedented transfor

What in the world is President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan up to?China watchers have been scratch

Two recent articles on the opinion pages of The Journal of Commerce raise the art of hypocrisy to ne

It would be understandable for anyone in the logistics field to roll their eyes or knowingly shake t

I read with some sadness your editorial titled ''Frankenstein foods?'' (June 28, Page 7).You

Lufthansa Cargo took a bold step this week with the announcement that it plans to raise worldwide fr

You leap out of the helicopter just when it perches, two wheels out of three, on the edge of a snow-

The work slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union are having the desi

Did you know that if Congress fails to pass a medical privacy law by Aug. 21, the Clinton administra

The great East Coast port competition to secure the business of Sea-Land Service and Maersk Line is

I hope that the statue of limitations has run out on this sort of thing, because I'm about to admit

The world's climate is changing. Last year was the warmest on record. El Nino was exceptionally stro

Picture, if you will, a personal computer that can run all your favorite programs, has a 90 percent

The annual debate over China's trade status, necessitated by the Jackson-Vanik amendment to the Trad

An innovative effort by Asian drug traffickers to set up a new kind of courier service failed this w

Nigeria is starting over again. The present is bleak, but the future is promising.Despite su

Never before has banking seen so much furious activity. Around the world, what were once regarded as

The European Union is squaring up for a schizophrenic David and Goliath battle - and it's vital for

It surely never occurs to Tarzan as he swings his way through the jungle issuing blood-curdling yode

As I have traveled throughout the United States and around the world, I have become more convinced t

''Nor all that glisters, gold.'' That is the exact, oft-misquoted line from Thomas Gray's ''Ode on t

Pat Buchanan may be slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, but he is correct in assessing the fore

An old specter re-emerged with oomph last week from the welter of economic, political and societal c

The nasty secret of health-care economics is that a lot done for patients is useless or dangerous, a

Just before the Fourth of July, the U.S. Embassy in London, along with the British government, hoste

The cry is heard echoing up and down the halls of every shipping department: ''Reduce transportation

Word is that this week may see the breaking of a long and troublesome deadlock over the choice of a

Summer lull or no summer lull, there's no real let-up in activity in the container shipping business

The latest U.S. trade dispute does not involve beef or bananas and is not the subject of high-level

E-mail has become a plot device in sweet-natured love movies, like ''You've Got Mail'' and ''Sleeple

New York state quietly marked its 100th day without a budget last week, a milestone that was notable

The U.S. economy is now generating so much tax revenue that this year's fiscal surplus will probably

Vandana Shiva is an environmentalist from India. She and I recently debated the environmental merits

Why would the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange travel to a remote rebel stronghold in the wil

Many experts forecast a wave of banking megamergers if Congress finally passes legislation that woul

One year ago, most observers were pessimistic about the world economy. The Asian crisis still appear

How high is the third-party logistics industry flying these days?Very high, according to som

Turkey has a historic chance to reach a peaceful settlement of the Kurdish issue. Whether it decides

It's a sad commentary that the state of Louisiana felt compelled to pass a law mandating that school

Longstanding familiarity and dependence often spark a proliferation of names for the same concept. J