Commentary

Shipping lines in the eastbound Pacific have been congratulating themselves for successfully implementing a series of general rate increases this year.

Container shipping lines face another year filled with “unpredictability and volatility.”

Taking the right steps can help shippers prevent re-brokering by motor carriers. Step No. 1 starts at the loading dock.

Long-awaited conflict minerals regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in September will take effect on Nov. 13 for products including tantalum, tin, gold and tungsten.

On Oct. 8, Mexico became an official member of the world’s most important global trade talks: negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The BMC-32 Cargo Liability Endorsement has been gone for more than a year, extinguished in March 2011 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Dr. Mike Walter – successful businessman, educator and former LB Port Commissioner – was honored recently by the International Seafarers Center for his contributions to the maritime industry.

Logistics and transportation professionals expect emerging markets to contribute 36 percent of their global revenue on average by 2017, more than double the share today, according to the Business Perspectives on Emerging Markets 2012-2017 Report by Global Intelligence Alliance.

Gasoline has been a U.S. automotive fuel mainstay for more than 100 years, while diesel has been the primary fuel for heavy equipment for more than 60 years. The U.S. fuel distribution infrastructure has been built out to support the country’s demands for these fuels that, for the most part, are conveniently available.

As the U.S. begins to emerge from four years of economic downturn, there is a view that seaports aren’t as exciting as they used to be.

In publishing, as in logistics, it’s all about adapting to change.

For what seemed like months, we read nothing but the updates to the ILA-management drama playing out on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts.

Q: I got your name out of a magazine my soon-to-be ex-husband gets, and I’m hoping you can help me with a really bad problem I’ve run into in connection with my divorce proceedings.

Q: I’ve been reading in a lot of your columns lately about problems that seem to arise out of the shipper hiring one motor carrier to handle a load and that carrier brokering the load out to ano

Logistics companies may dominate the Top 50 Global Transportation and Logistics Companies, but when considering profit margins, railroads top the list.

The United States faces serious challenges to its infrastructure, and has for years.

Last week, my JOC colleagues and I unveiled the agenda for the March 2-6, 2013, TPM conference in Long Beach.

It appears ports, carriers and retailers can breathe a sigh of relief. Peak-season 2012 in the eastbound Pacific will turn out to be just fine.

Amid a FedEx earnings call last week that was a virtual catalog of how shippers are weathering tough times by trading down to lower-priced forms of transportation, one story line stood out: FedEx has

Q: I don’t believe I’ve seen this one asked before.

The nights are cooler and the days are shorter. The long Labor Day weekend is behind us and the kids are back in school. You know what that means?

The Port of New York and New Jersey, the third-largest U.S.

Q: We are a large importer of children’s wear into the United States.

When APL developed the stacktrain in the mid-1980s, it effectively launched the modern intermodal era by going beyond the basic concept of placing truck trailers on flatcars that dated back to the 195

In the final scene of the 1990 blockbuster film “The Hunt for Red October,” Sean Connery’s Marko Ramius considers what’s next for his country after defecting to the U.S.

I ran across a curious anomaly last month while on vacation way Down East in Maine.

When countries go to war over trade, there are rarely winners.

Food shippers who have been warned of a coming equipment shortage should be cheered by a new report that shows industry investment in refrigerated containers at an all-time high.

"Businesses create jobs to create wealth, not to consume wealth."

I ran across a curious anomaly last month while on vacation way Down East in Maine.

Where has 2012 gone?

Container lines this year accomplished something few thought they could: They drove home a series of rate increases on the major east-west trades that returned the industry to profitability.

The dog days of summer provided no respite from the pre-convention point-counterpoint between the Obama and Romney camps.

Q: I’ve been following, or at least tried to follow, the arguments about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, but confess that I simp

Anne Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in early August shared with the audience at the PeopleNet User Conference that fatalities in truck- and bus-related crashe

With a single sentence — “It looks like we’re going to have a strike” — International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett in late August elevated th