Commentary

What was the most overlooked business story of the past month? My vote goes to the latest turn in the 15-year struggle over allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on U.S. highways.

The president’s recently passed economic stimulus bill may not have contained as much funding for national infrastructure as initially thought, but for inland waterways infrastructure modernizat

How long can you hold your breath? This question has been running through my mind for several weeks as global economic news grew worse (although the stock market has shown a recent spark).

Enough already.

Populism is all the rage these days when it comes to talk about the economy.

Carriers of all kinds are getting as interested as shippers in inventory management, and software companies are coming in right behind them with technology aimed at tracking, forecasting and otherwise

Hey Joe, in regard to your "Port in a Storm" post this morning, do you know if there are any international treaties or co

When a ship is in distress, others want to help — but not if it's going to cost them a pile of money that they can't recoup.

It has been observed many times that China and India, the world’s two fastest growing developing nations, are evolving in remarkably different ways.

Lines between ocean and land transportation continue to blur.

Prudent shippers check their transportation and logistics service providers for financial soundness.

With the faintest glimmers of daylight — one dares not call it dawn — appearing on the economic horizon, the transportation industry is pinning its hopes on a single indicator as the one with the grea

Q: I work as an account manager at a logistics company with several clients with management contracts for our services.

Most experts will tell you visibility is the key to supply chain security.

As long as I've been covering transportation, the alleged truck driver shortage has been an issue for motor carriers and shippers alike.

The long battle over allowing Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the U.S. has taken an ominous turn with Mexico's announcement that it slap retaliatory tariffs on 90 U.S.

It may be hard to envision now, as top rail lines rapidly cut capacity, but there was a time when the first place a worried president of the United States turned to stabilize the economy was the major

Will the shift in market share from West to East Coast ports and price competition from long-haul trucking force railroads to price West Coast container and intermodal cargo more competitively?

Q: I have a QUESTION pertaining to the non-recourse clause on bills of lading.

Because the global economy right now, once you step back from the disarray, could best be described as something like a bad joke, it might take a joke to point out what’s happened and how a reco

The economic doom and gloom that has spread across transportation and global trade is drowning out an important reality: Today’s tough times offer important opportunities for improving the suppl

China says logistics industry there up 15.4 percent in 2008 in value, down from 19.9 percent in 2007. Business volume up 19.5 percent after 26.2 percent in '07.

If you thought port privatization was as dead as the rest of this economy, think again.

Tim Rhein, the former CEO of APL, tapped into a deep reservoir of angst in the transportation industry concerning railroads.

There'll be no St. Patrick's Day parade of containers in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Q: I recently signed on a new less-than-truckload carrier, and they have been billing me accessorials based on what their billers read or think they read on the bill of lading.

Q: I recently signed on a new less-than-truckload carrier, and they have been billing me accessorials based on what their billers read or think they read on the bill of lading.

“The most positive thing I have heard is how pessimistic everyone is.”

Many of the ocean carriers and third-party logistics companies attending the 9th Annual Journal of Commerce Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference last week said improving retail consumer sales are their b

Transportation industry leaders need to take bold and immediate action to manage an unprecedented decline in demand that threatens their survival and the viability of their customers’ supply cha

Back in the bad old days before U.S. railroads were relieved of the most onerous of government regulations, shippers had little to choose from when selecting a carrier.

With things comparatively quiet on the port trucker front in Los Angeles-Long Beach, the issue is starting to pick up steam in East Coast ports.

It’s getting late in the eastbound trans-Pacific.

A friend once told us that one advantage of growing older was that you get to see how things turned out.

If the International Longshoremen's Association contract negotiations were a football game, it would be early in the first quarter, no score.

Letter to the Editor, Feb. 23, 2009

If you're like most people, air travel comes with a twinge of the jitters, if not more. Anyone who denies the latent fear of flying need only look at the 24/7 coverage of the Feb.

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One of the useful things about the passage of time is that it has a way of bringing out the truth (as Alex Rodriguez learned last week).

Standard gauge for U.S. railroads is 4 feet, 8 inches, and all major carriers are standard gauge. The distance between the rails is about the only thing that's standard in the industry.