Commentary

Whether you admire him or despise him - and there are few who feel anything in between - you can't d

At year's start, it looked like 1999 might be a highly productive - even a milestone - year for trad

Shippers have been fixated on the seemingly bungled breakup of Conrail, Inc. since June 1 as CSX Tra

It's summertime and the living is easy - or is it? While warm weather traditionally signals the star

Sometimes the messages that aren't intended ring louder than those that are.An op-ed column

Attention is now turning to the aftermath of the war in Kosovo: rebuilding communities and economies

The band of people who were there at the beginning of container shipping got smaller by one this wee

Once thought of as a silent abyss, the ocean is really ''abuzz with sound'' from grinding supertanke

What threatened to be a long, hot summer for the asset markets may turn out to be less of a sizzler

When Paul Revere rode out to warn that British troops were marching on the arsenal at Concord, he ha

The nation's trade community got another reminder last week of a looming crisis that just won't go a

Bitter trade disputes over a variety of environment and health issues, ranging from the Clean Air Ac

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. commitment to democratic ideals around the globe has proven

Memo to executives: Remove Russia from your agenda for the next two years at least. Russia will clea

Hong Kong's third year as a Special Administrative Region of China begins today. But no one should f

We are now well into the peak season for import traffic on the trans-Pacific trades. It is also two

The results of the historic meeting this week between leaders of the 15-nation European Union and th

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in a trio of cases involving the Americans with Disabilities

Insurers around the world are frustrated. They see a vast potential for business in China - but a po

New York: The Great White Way. The tall buildings. The subways. And, oh yeah, PC Expo.When a

Japanese in increasing numbers are going gray at an early age these days - by choice, not by biologi

Soon we'll be getting the clinical details of the physical health of the many aspirants for the Whit

A recent federal case involving a towing company may signal an initiative by federal agencies and pr

In the growing world economy, the Northern Hemisphere can no longer rely solely on trade led by Fort

On any weekday morning, visitors to London can see a curious sight, one that's rarely noted in the t

As it does every year, Congress is considering whether to continue normal trade relations status for

Negotiators in Belfast are wrangling with basic issues of peace and justice as they try to keep Nort

Railroad cops were organized in the last century, when murder along the tracks was the unfortunate b

In the give-and-take tango that characterizes U.S.-Argentina trade relations, things are no longer i

The decision of the American Medical Association to form a doctors' labor union is ironic on two cou

Has it ever occurred to either John Freivalds or Daryl Natz, authors of the opinion article ''Franke

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been a model central banker. Calm and nondogmatic, he ha

There's a reason why Europe is called the Old Country. While the rest of the developed world has lon

With the Dow rising from 10,000 to 11,000 in just 24 trading days this spring, with the bull market

Privatization of a state-owned firm brings fresh money to the government and energetic new managemen

Shipping has become accustomed to the container line merger/acquisition process in recent years, and

In the urgency of advocacy, Ward Uggerud (opinion article, ''Rail customers want what the law promis

NYK Line has released its annual survey of the world container fleet, a concise but detailed report

Fifty-one years ago this week, on June 24, 1948, Soviet forces cut off all ground travel in and out

Solid and sustained economic growth has taken root across the United States, with indexes of wholesa