Commentary

Poor timing by IndiaThe cargo transportation industry is struggling with security-driven req

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Q:A few weeks ago, my company tendered a load to

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Exports from the United States took a big leap in Februar

A provision inserted into a current Senate maritime security bill caught my attention, but not appar

With current thinking, short-sea will failI have been involved in transportation for 30 year

Richard A. Clarke, the former White House terrorism chief, made front-page headlines in the Boston m

Change management could be described as equal parts behavioral science and process management. It's

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.A mentor of mine once told me: "If you can move goods fro

The anguished and polarizing debate on the Jones Act - given up for dead after the quixotic Rob Quar

It's been five years since since the Ocean Shipping Reform Act took effect on May 1, 1999. The impac

Comparison of two 'New Yorkers'The account of Mediterranean Shipping Co. in the April 19-25

No government agency responded more rapidly, decisively, or effectively to the Sept. 11 attacks than

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I have a customer who recently decided to lease

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Auditing your use of data in logistics is critically impo

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Ron Cottingham''s April 12 letter paints an untrue charac

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.A turning point is one of the most difficult things in bu

WASHINGTON - May Day! That's an old call of distress, but this week, it's a cry of celebrati

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Q:When a carrier pays a shipper''s damage claim,

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.The longest day I spent with Robert V. Delaney was last J

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.There is more to an effective contract with a freight car

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.In his March 8 commentary responding to my March 1 commen

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Remember the Great Blackout of 2003? In the deep heat of

Egypt has the Pyramids, and northern New Jersey has its own man-made wonder - huge stacks of shippin

A recent survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes reveals th

Inquiries in recent months from shippers and motor carriers compel me to examine the current insuran

LONDON -- Foreign investors who welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin's re-election as a harbing

In the JoC's Feb. 2 cover story criticizing the Transportation Security Administration, Bob Edmonson

Empty-box complaints have hollow ringOn the issue of intermodal equipment shortages, somehow

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Q:We, a motor carrier, delivered a two-skid shipm

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Defining the proper level of inventory is, in many ways,

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Coal and Cost SwitchingI read with interest your

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Have you learned your lesson? The lesson, that is, of how

Bob Delaney used to say that in the early 1950s, the Army was not only the best place to learn logis

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Your article on truck-only toll lanes for longer-combinat

We may not know for months how the Federal Maritime Commission will rule on petitions of UPS, FedEx,

Over the past several months I have become increasingly intrigued by three emerging and distinct cam

The recent attacks in Madrid show clearly the vulnerability of transportation to terrorism. Unfortun

Experience counts - or at least it shouldJoe Bonney's March 22-28 column (on the bleak job m

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I read your column every week and have the thir

Copyright 2004, Traffic World, Inc.The availability of good, innovative technology for logis