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THE GLOBAL SHIPBUILDING PACT THAT GOT AWAY

Europe View - AVIVA FREUDMANN | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
America's non-ratification of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shipbuilding

CHINA EMBRACING ROLE AS BIGGEST FARM IMPORTER

Dennis T. Avery | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
China has taken another important step toward becoming the world's largest food importer, eliminatin

LOOKING AT LOGISTICS FROM BOTH SIDES NOW

On The Waterfront - BARRY HOROWITZ | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Over the past several months, I have spent much of my time traveling in Europe on a development proj

AN ON-THE-ROAD BOYS' CLUB NO MORE

Bernice Kanner | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Back in the old economy, before the roller-coaster Nasdaq stock market ride and the emergence of the

LOCAL-LEVEL TRADE ACTION

JOC Staff | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
ho says local politicians in the United States are the only ones who like to play international trad
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PUTIN WILL MOVE SLOWLY, WITH INVESTORS IN MIND

Rafik Kurbanov | Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
As Vladimir Putin prepares to officially become Russia's second president at an inauguration ceremon

COPING WITH THE OTHER GLOBALIZATION CHALLENGE

John Freivalds | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
I feel that globalization - not the pejorative term used to bring attention to the outsourcing of Am

BIOTECH: EUROPE'S TAIL MUST NOT WAG US DOG

Philip Stott | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
I have just returned to London from St. Louis, the American hub for many new developments in biotech

MYANMAR CASE PERPETUATES FALSE ANALOGIES

Catharin Dalpino | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
The case before the U.S. Supreme Court on the right of Massachusetts and several California localiti

TEMPERATURES RISING AGAIN ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC

Slot Watch - PAUL RICHARDSON | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Things are heating up once again on the Atlantic, and the recent vessel-sharing agreements penned by

OTHER VOICES

(Following are newspaper editorials excerpted and distributed | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
BUFFALO NEWS:It sounds like the plot for one of those mid-season TV shows: Congress passes l

ORIGINAL INTERMODAL MOVE

JOC Staff | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Think you face transportation challenges? They used to be worse - a lot worse than even industry gra

EMPLOYEE SHORTAGE

JOC Staff | Apr 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
ompanies in the nation's transportation industry, long accustomed to tooth-and-nail battles for busi

UNITED SHIPPING FORWARDER NETWORK THRIVING SINCE 1989

JOC Staff | Apr 13, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Bill Armbruster's article on the new WIN network (''New network provides service in 45 countries,''

IT ONLY SEEMS AS IF THE STEEL CRISIS IS OVER

Trading Views - GREG MASTEL | Apr 13, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Just one year ago, the steel import crisis was the talk of Washington.The House of Represent

DRIVER SHORTAGE: FINDING A LONG-HAUL SOLUTION

Duff Swain | Apr 13, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
For the next five years, U.S. industries will require 80,000 new truck drivers every year. Canada wi

STREET THEATER

JOC Staff | Apr 13, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
boisterous rally by thousands of union members Wednesday in Washington officially opened the curtain

THE INDUSTRY NEEDS TO SEE THE FMC AS NEUTRAL

Leonard L. Fleisig | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Two federal maritime commissioners, Chairman Hal Creel and Commissioner Antony Merck, have spoken ou

THE BOOM IN BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS EXCHANGES

Moving Right Along - THEODORE PRINCE | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Almost every day there is some announcement about the establishment of a new business-to-business ex

MEXICAN PARTY PUSHING BUSINESSMEN INTO POLITICS

George W. Grayson | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has long declared itself a defender of worke

RIGHT MOVE ON GAS TAX

JOC Staff | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
isely, the Senate has rejected the temptation to dabble in the oil-price issue by temporarily cuttin

YEN IS JUST RIGHT

JOC Staff | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
he strong yen has not yet hurt Japanese exporters very much, judging by the latest trade numbers. A

MISMANAGEMENT SPARKS A COFFEE WAR

David Gough | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Mwangi Githendu might not know much about politics, but he insists: ''I know when I'm being cheated.

TRADE AND DEMOCRACY IN CHINA: A REALITY CHECK

Christopher Lingle | Apr 12, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
China's authoritarian government regularly and systematically ignores universally recognized rights.

SOME DO WORRY ABOUT SERVICE _ AND MANAGERS

Surface Reflections - LAWRENCE H KAUFMAN | Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
Readers are wonderful. They think and they communicate. This week, I'm going to share the reactions

MOVING FAR AND FAST

JOC Staff | Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
t's a day for two transportation firsts - and for reflection.On this date in 1911, Pierre Pr

A WAVE OF BOOKS ON WINDOWS 2000

Tech Talk - MICHAEL BERMAN | Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
The birth of Windows 2000 has generated a new wave of profit-motivated efforts by computer-book publ

TIE 24-HOUR OPERATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY

JOC Staff | Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
I have followed with interest your concern over the low productivity of American seaports. You have

INEVITABILITY AND ACE

JOC Staff | Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
he congressional oversight hearing last week on the Clinton administration's budget request for a ne

FACE UP TO THE PROBLEMS WITH H-1B VISAS

James R. Edwards Jr. | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
It's hard to disagree with Alan Greenspan because he's right on so many things, but pouring thousand

A NATION THAT HAS ITS CAKE AND EATS IT, TOO

Europe View - BRUCE BERNARD | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
It's the kind of story that simultaneously feeds outsiders' prejudices about France's failure to com

NO SUCH THING AS THE NEW ECONOMY

William Keegan | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
I've had enough with all this stuff about the New Economy, the ''weightless economy,'' ''legacy indu

YOUNG CYNICS IN JAPAN

JOC Staff | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
olitics may be a lot of things in the United States, but boring is not usually one of them. In Japan

JAPAN GRAPPLES WITH NEED FOR TRANSFORMATION

Dilip K. Das | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
The second-largest economy in the world has been stagnating for almost a decade now, which calls for

GAO IS WRONG: CARGO PREFERENCE EARNS ITS KEEP

Gloria Cataneo Tosi | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker recently testified before a Senate committee highlighting d

DUMP THE DUMPING LAW

JOC Staff | Apr 10, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
ashington has just lost a major anti-dumping case at the World Trade Organization, as well it should

CONTAINER LINES' FINANCIALS ON THE MEND

Slot Watch - PAUL RICHARDSON | Apr 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
So the 1999 financial results have had their airing. The whole container-shipping industry has exper

MODEST OUTLOOK FOR EXPORT PROMOTION THIS YEAR

Trade Scene - RICHARD LAWRENCE | Apr 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
The Clinton administration's Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee has just set forth its export ag

IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE THE PRODUCTIVITY BOOM

Robert Trigaux | Apr 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
When John Guest became chief information officer in 1996 at Paradyne Networks in Largo, Fla., out we

A BLACK-WIDOW SPIDER QUALITY AT THE RAILROADS

Diane C. Duff | Apr 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
The black-widow spider is notorious for killing its mate. Sadly, there is a black-widow spider quali
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