Commentary

There have been six new entrants into the trans-Pacific container trades this year, and five existin

In Canada, a day without orange juice is like a day without . . . drugs?After an 18-month st

Allan Mendelsohn's opinion article of Aug. 3 (''The best way to update cargo-damage limits,'' Page 8

As Capt. Steve Barnes of the Gulfport, Miss., police put it, ''We're fortunate that some of these cr

The Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey is dedicated to serving a population that's o

In the drought-stricken Northeast's Galloway Township, N.J., a homeowner has found a way to save wat

Many commentators have suggested that the South Korean government's decision to help arrange a credi

Today likely will see the official ratification of a three-year contract between the International L

You've just made a large sale and had 20,000 yards of fabric delivered to one of your customers. A m

Now, granted, this may mean that I've been working for the ''cargo-centric'' Journal of Commerce too

There's more where that came from.The Federal Reserve's quarter-point increase in interest r

Every American who ever served in our merchant marine owes you at least a tip of his hat for your ed

I've always been puzzled by dpi (dots per square inch) designations when it comes to the output of c

Dennis T. Avery claims in his recent flurry against Gerber's decision to reject biotech food, and hi

World air travel figures are following other demographics such as affluent-population bulges. As a r

Container carriers are taking it on the financial chin for a variety of reasons these days, but two

Amid the economic and political turmoil plaguing Japan for the past few years, the thoughts of the a

The truck strike that just ended at the Port of Vancouver shined a light on a rough spot in the inte

Britain's Nanny State has struck again.Only a few short months after making a fool of itself

The United States set another monthly trade deficit record in June, $24.6 billion. The Commerce Depa

No news really is good news.Only a few weeks ago, newspaper headlines tracked the quicksand

Given August's earthquake in Turkey, tornado in Salt Lake City and hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico,

Architects, engineers and construction workers have just brought Europe a little closer. Unfortunate

Who says the costs and rates of a Jones Act service have to be sky-high?The decision by Edwa

Snow White's wicked stepmother may have been skewered for watching the mirror, but in millennial Ame

Malaysia's experiment with capital and foreign-exchange controls flies in the face of a 25-year glob

Dogs aren't the only dangers that mail carriers face in the central English town of Mansfield. They'

President Clinton mixed the bad with the good last week when he signed the Water Resources Developme

At the turn of the century, mass manufacturers controlled a demand economy. Consumers bought whateve

When I went to Bosnia-Herzegovina last spring, I got a valuable piece of advice: Don't pay by credit

If you have never heard of Weiliang Yang, you could be forgiven.And if you find it difficult

It's recorded that when a ruler was confronted by an enemy in very ancient times in China, he would

Perhaps the clearest evidence that the Cold War is over can be found in American trade statistics. U

On the way to the Y2K conference, I heard a radio report that some Canadians had invented windup AM

It's not every day that a maritime operational issue rises to a level of importance where those who

Some linguists claim that the name Finland comes from the French ''fin,'' the end, meaning the natio

A natural course of reactions to immense tragedies like the earthquake in Turkey is horror, followed

The latest efforts from Washington to deal with steel-imports are both nimble and Herculean, attempt

The U.S. merchant marine at the millennium is a merchant marine with a glorious past, a precarious p

In my 15 years of handling employment matters, including a decade on Capitol Hill, I have become fam