Commentary

Union Pacific Railroad named Bob Naro vice president of Mexico operations. Naro, formerly assistant

Most of the questions coming from Wall Street about the Yellow Roadway purchase of USF come down to

Putting Sea-Land's profit in contextI enjoyed reading Peter Leach's fine article in the Feb.

Innovate Logistics , a British operator specializing in cold chain logistics, appointed Andrew Dawso

Some 30 years ago, it took 24 hours to achieve $10 billion in international trade transactions. Toda

They tell the story of the jockey who lost a race, dismounted and was confronted by the horse's angr

Port capacity is rapidly becoming the No. 1 issue facing the international logistics system in North

Equipment size matters to shippers, and given a choice, they will consistently opt for larger equipm

When managing most any business process, the areas that prove more troublesome inevitably are those

There surely must have been a pressing security need at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa, Okla., just as th

John Allan, CBEJohn Allan's 20-year career in logistics earned royal recognition Fe

Imagine that you are the owner of a manufacturing company that employs 100 people. Seventy-five of t

Six years after the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, people still describe containerized shipping as a com

From the warehouses in central Japan to the trucks intersecting with distribution centers and retail

UPM Rafsec, a Finland-based RFID tag manufacturer, hired Thomas Wythe as a sales team leader based i

There was some squawking about the Panama Canal Authority's increase in tolls for containerized carg

I covered the trans-Pacific trade in the mid-1990s, and there was always an element of mystery surro

Our nation's capital has recently heard extensive debate over the word "crisis." President Bush's pr

Being a carrier is suddenly profitable again. Yellow Freight is the darling of Wall Street, ocean ca

Mega-mergers across any industry, such as the recent deal between Procter & Gamble and Gillette,

You've heard the old maxim about how making laws is like making sausage? You don't want to see eithe

<p><SPAN class=newsbold>The North Carolina State Ports Authority</SPAN> named <

When we asked more than 200 industry leaders to list the top industry issues in last month's JoC Ann

Let the government pay for its errorsWe continue to load up the cost of doing business in th

Information has always been at the heart of the effort to prevent the trade system from being usurpe

The problem of shippers using terminals for storage is an old one that's been highlighted recently b

While Rep. Don Young was talking to Traffic World about transportation issues last week, the White H

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the New York Shipping Association's incorporation. NYSA Pres

The letter to the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce came from the Turkish government, and it asked an u

This is the time of year when people shake off the last of the holiday doldrums and begin to fix the

During my annual office-cleaning weekend last month, I came across a copy of my first published edit

Old Dominion Freight Line, Thomasville, N.C., announced a series of changes in its LTL system. The c

Fifteen years ago there wasn't much to distinguish between the German and French mail monopolies, De

Container ship lines have a love-hate relationship with intermodal chassis. Carriers complain about

You may recall back in September when a major new element of the container security system - a requi

In the early and mid-1990s, when I was U.S. Customs' regional commissioner for the Northeast, we wor

You get what you pay forPeter Tirschwell's Jan. 17 column ("New trucker crisis brewing") was

Does the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration get a restart provision in its rulemaking on ho

Manhattan Associates, Atlanta, appointed Steve Norton senior vice president and chief financial offi

New regulations could shut off an important market for U.S. agricultural-products exporters in 2005