Commentary

January isn't even a month old yet, but already there has been an avalanche of major news stories af

Barely into the New Year, and enshrouded in lunar festivities as our Asian colleagues celebrate thei

Jim Giermanski says that entering goods to Mexico from the U.S. is like going the wrong way down a o

George A. Gecowets was not present at the creation, but he wasn't far behind. He reckons he was 'som

Thank you for the report on our 'PortSource' website for the Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor complex (

Raymond Kelly, who resigned on the last full day of the Clinton administration, should be a poster b

In today's world of MP3 players, Walkmen, digital phones and boom boxes, there's one thing we never

The latest flare-up in the trans-Atlantic dispute over Airbus subsidies reinforced the impression in

In a push to gain a foothold in Eastern Europe, supply-chain management giant Exel announced in Dece

Hong Kong's Orient Overseas Container Line, whose future has been the subject of more speculation th

What's in store for the eastbound trans-Pacific trade for 2001? That's a subject on many people's mi

Few shipping-industry relationships are as unusual as the one that exists between the International

On no other trade issue had the Clinton administration in recent months executed such major policy c

Some thoughtful people in the railroad industry are starting to come around to the view that competi

A while back, the folks at Hitachi America sent me an E-Plate handheld PC. Although the model they s

It should probably not come as much of a surprise that Fritz Cos., the perennially troubled San Fran

So it's rapped knuckles again for your guru, and we're only two weeks into the New Year. Yep, I rea

In Europe as elsewhere, customer demand to speed shipments is causing companies to review logistics

'Logistics is everything to us,' says Steve Schonholtz, president and CEO of Heads & Threads Interna

As a member of the Advisory Board to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy since 1995, I was startled to

Reply and rebuttal comments have been filed in the Surface Transportation Board's exercise to develo

Reply and rebuttal comments have been filed in the Surface Transportation Board's exercise to develo

I recently had a chance to play with the new @ctiveLink wireless messaging module from Glenayre ($42

News that shipyards in Italy, Germany, France and Spain are considering the establishment of a giant

Globalization has created many new trading regimes and left many others in its wake. Among the latte

Much has been said about the large quantity of new capacity being introduced onto the major East-Wes

Welcome to 2001! This is always an exhilarating time at The Journal of Commerce as we launch each ne

I started the new year with a fresh appointment calendar, but it wasn't easy. To buy it, I made the

To the Editor: The article 'Air cargo carriers benefit from British rail chaos' (JoC Online, Dec. 4)

In these closing days of the Clinton administration, the name of the game is Legacy - a look what th

I remember going to home shows where they would show off the house of the future, where everything i

With varying degrees of zeal or animosity over the last 30 years, U.S. freight railroads have wished

It's the last column of the year, and time once again to dust off the crystal ball, and see what the

The year 2000 is nearly behind us. What did we learn this past year, and what does it mean for 2001?

During the past year, UPS Global Logistics Group acquired five companies in a push to become the dom

We are part of a global economy which is being propelled by information technology, electronic comme

LONDON-The battle between Europe's top airports to become the continent's main hub is set to intensi

As usual, truth lies somewhere between the extremes One of the first things students of statistics l

About a year ago, I made a foray into the world of wireless networking. And, although I wasn't awed

Here's an offer that Chris Kritikos thinks most shipowners would be foolish to refuse: 250 container