Commentary

The report on the U.S. Marine Transportation System sent to Congress by Transportation Secretary Rod

President Lee Teng-hui's statement on July 9 that the relationship between Taiwan and China is a ''s

BY JOHN CLARKJohn Clark, who observed the Indonesian elections in June, is a senior research

It's midnight. All of a sudden the phone rings - someone has vandalized a shipment of rare artifacts

The report on the nation's maritime system, released by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater last

The rhetoric was typically overblown, but the idea that Sino-American relations are moving back to w

Imagine. Your company deploys the most advanced supply-chain management systems. You've outsourced d

John Davies was a reporter's reporter. John, who worked for The Journal of Commerce in Los Angeles,

A bit late and a bit slowly, Europe's aerospace/defense industry is going through the same process o

Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will keep mail carriers from their appointed rounds, says t

It's been a period in which French giant Bollore looked set to either merge its Delmas shipping busi

Having established himself as the odd man of Japanese politics, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi kicked o

In the shadows of today's great tax-cut debate resides an important, though relatively little public

I just finished a telephone conversation with the comptroller of a steamship line operating to the M

Representatives of the Interagency Commission on Crime and Security in U.S. Seaports completed a rou

If you believe in the evil men do, then you probably remember Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of Dr. J

There is a development under way at the Customs Service that should be deeply troubling to anyone in

A concerned New England customer queried my trucking company in New Haven, Conn., one day: Can you t

Amid reports of money laundering and rampant corruption, it is tempting to view Russia as a rat hole

The tale of the Titanic has fascinated people for 87 years now, ever since the luxury liner hit an i

Each year, the federal government receives $4 billion in revenue from oil and natural-gas royalties.

Despite a lack of any credible evidence that inflation is a threat to the U.S. economy now or in the

What happens on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum w

Vice President Al Gore was asked last week to join an activist group and a congressman in reneging o

It is somewhat ironic that the Year 2000 problem has become known as Y2K. This shorthand method of n

Your editorial, ''He was a merchant mariner'' (Aug. 19, Page 7), and the Aug. 26 letter from Joe M.

We all know managing with an eye to the environment is a socially responsible thing to do. But incre

At the beginning of the 19th century the French led a revolution that introduced a new age of politi

There are two broad symptoms of an economy experiencing excessive demand growth.One is infla

Weeks after the earthquake, various issues related to Turkey's disaster still dominate the country's

This is to comment on the Aug. 17 opinion article headlined ''Danger on digital John Hancocks'' (Pag

In today's world, fax is fast and signatures on faxes are legal. So, if you absolutely, positively h

Over the past few years, as the debate becomes more shrill over globalization and the impact of incr

Less than a year after leading the Social Democrats to a stunning election triumph that ended nearly

Railroad executives can be excused if they have a sense of deja vu. Twenty years after deregulation,

There are only two explanations for what the Indonesian government has been doing in the bloody anar

Over the past year, ports along the East Coast of North America dealt with a new reality as we respo

I wanted to start off this column with a question about the FastShip venture, but first please allow

Close to one in four Americans is now an independent worker rather than an employee, and for most th

The spotlight will be on Chinese shipping issues this month, and the Federal Maritime Commission wil