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Trends & Developments

Volume 1 (articles Sep, 2004 – Dec, 2004)
Volume 2 (articles Jan, 2005 – Mar, 2005)
Volume 3 (articles Apr, 2005 – Jun, 2005)
Volume 4 (articles Jul, 2005 – Sep, 2005)
Volume 5 (articles Oct, 2005 – Dec, 2005)
Volume 6 (articles Jan, 2006 – Mar, 2006)
Volume 7 (articles Apr, 2006 – Jun, 2006)
Volume 8 (articles Jul, 2006 – Sep, 2006)
Volume 9 (articles Oct, 2006 – Dec, 2006)
Volume 10 (articles Jan, 2007 – Mar, 2007)
Volume 11 (articles Apr, 2007 – Jun, 2007)
Volume 12 (articles Jul, 2007 – Sep, 2007)
Volume 13 (articles Oct, 2007 – Dec, 2007)
Volume 14 (articles Jan, 2008 – Mar, 2008)
Volume 15 (articles Apr, 2008 – Jun, 2008)
Volume 16 (articles Jul, 2008 – Sep, 2008)
Volume 17 (articles Oct, 2008 – Dec, 2008)
Volume 18 (articles Jan, 2009 – Mar, 2009)
Volume 19 (articles Apr, 2009 – Jun, 2009)
Volume 20 (articles Jul, 2009 – Sep, 2009)
Volume 21 (articles Oct, 2009 – Dec, 2009)
Volume 22 (articles Jan, 2010 – Mar, 2010)
Volume 23 (articles Apr, 2010 – June, 2010)
Volume 24 (articles Jul, 2010 – Sep, 2010)
Volume 25 (articles Oct, 2010 – Dec. 2010)
Volume 26 (articles Jan, 2011 – Mar. 2010)
Volume 27 (articles Apr, 2011 – June, 2011)
Volume 28 (articles Jul, 2011 – Sep. 2011)
Volume 29 (articles Oct, 2011 – Dec. 2011)
Volume 30 (articles Jan, 2012 – Mar. 2012)
Volume 31 (articles Apr, 2012 – Jun. 2012)
Volume 32 (articles Jul, 2012 – Sept. 2012)
Volume 33 (articles Oct, 2012 – Dec. 2012)
Volume 34 (articles Jan, 2013 – Mar. 2013)
Volume 35 (articles Apr, 2013 – Jun. 2013)
Volume 36 (articles Jul, 2013 – Sept. 2013)
Volume 37 (articles Oct, 2013 – Dec. 2013)
Volume 38 (articles Jan, 2014 – Mar. 2014)
Volume 39 (articles Apr, 2014 – Jun. 2014)
Volume 40 (articles Jul, 2014 – Sept. 2014)

All volumes

Vol.I

Vol.II

Vol.III

Vol.IV

Vol.V

1 Interlocking Pieces …
2 Reprinting the Quotable Quotes
3 Band-aids
4 Spaced Out
5 Another Curve Ball?
6 The sweet smell of roses …
7 The blind leading the blind…
8 Driving Needs
9 A Final Straw
10 Talespinning?
11 West Coast Offense
12 Choppy Waters
13 Less Is More
14 On A Silver Platter
15 Remember that?
16 Reading Between The Lines
17 “… this far and no farther.”
18 Or Else!
19 No matter how you slice it … (A Reprint of Vol. IV, Art. 10 – A Leviathan?)
20 We’re so gullible! (AReprint of Vol. IV, Art. 24 – Berth of the Blues)
21 A Common Thread
22 Smooth Sailings
23 Spinnage (It’s a new word. Don’t bother to look it up.)
24 A Done Deal?
25 Go Figure!
26 Checkmate!!
27 Leap before you look …
28 A fly-in-the-ointment
29 The Tail Wagging The Dog
30 Welcome to Fantasy Land
31 Getting the Picture
32 A Fit of Logic …
33 Connecting the dots …
34 ‘Tis the season to be jolly, but …
35 Navel-gazing

Vol.VI

1 Any Storm In A Port …
2 Unbalanced Behavior
3 Stock Aid
4 Foreign Matter
5 OPB and OPM …
6 Scotchy-scramble …
7 Riding Off Into The Sunrise
8 Cui bono?
9 A Win-Win Situation (A re-print of Vol. II, Art. 10)
10 Tinkering …
11 Dredging Up Trouble
12 An Endless Summer
13 Time’s a-wastin’.
14 Misdirection
15 In(s)anity …
16 “The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!”
17 The Future Is Now (A re-print of our October 28th, 2004 commentary)
18 The Foreseeable Future
19 “Just think …” (A reprint of Vol. IV, Art. 18 – For David C. Sanborn)
20 Down Memory Lane …
21 It takes a village …
22 Freight Villages …
23 More spinnage …
24 Politics As Usual
25 Missing The Boat
26 Speaking Volumes
27 Paying through the nose …
28 It’s patently obvious …
29 Political posturing …
30 Screen Pass
31 Tug o’ wars …
32 The Sparin’ O’ The Green
33 ” … it’s something I lose sleep over.”
34 Chew on this …
35 It’s Math Time!
36 In The Driver’s Seat
37 Think about it …
38 Remedial steps …

Vol.VII

Vol.VIII

1 On The Rocks
2 Semi-conscious
3 Clark Kent Ervin … Superman?
4 Shearing time again …
5 Tweaks …
6 Logic 101
7 The Chi-cargo Shuffle
8 On The Same Wave Length (A reprint of Vol. II, Art. 3)
9 Hotdoggin’ in Hamburg
10 “Run To Daylight” (An encore)
11 …but no one seems to care.
12 Sleepless In Oxnard
13 Trojan Horse Grounds?
14 The carrot and the shtick …
15 Mr. Tommy Stramer, (R.I.P.)
16 Gold mines? …
17 Jumping On The Banned Wagon?
18 A Fitting Solution (Originally posted on November 2nd, 2004)
19 Begin the “Begin”
20 Peeve or Fitch?
21 Labor Pains
22 Something stinks in Long Beach…
23 Where there’s a will, there’s a way …
24 Unanimous Indecision
25 “… most problematic” (A reprint of Vol. IV, Art. 34)
26 A Sensible Alternative
27 That Sinking Feeling
28 Un-FEES-ible
29 An Idea Whose Time Has Come
30 Open To Debate
31 Safe and Sound
32 Unguarded Comments
33 The Space Sage
34 Adding Insult To Injury
35 Myth-conceptions
36 Three-part Harmony
37 The Rusty Chain [Anniversary Edition]

Vol.IX

Vol.X

Vol.XI

1 No matter how you slice it …
2 “Pay me now, or pay me later”
3 A ‘mitigation fee’? … Brilliant!!
4 Too Big For Their Bridges
5 Another backyard brawl!
6 Reviewing the Delaware River squabble … (from our Vol. VI, Art. 11 commentary)
7 Del-aware!
8 On the Right Track
8 On the Right Tract
9 The Match Game
10 “Now hear this …”
11 Thin is ‘In’!
12 “Normal process …”
13 A Regular Fee-for-all!
14 “… carbon tax for trucks …”
15 “Congestion pricing …”
16 Money to Burn
17 The Big ‘IF’
18 Two Cases in Point
19 A Deepening Concern
20 Ooops!!
21 A Stay of Execution
22 A Sinking Curve Ball
23 The $ 300 Million Hangover
24 Refund-amental
25 Port Whine
27 Dredge-naught
28 Slam Dunk!
29 Delayed Reaction
30 Worldly-wise
31 Time to knuckle down!
32 Wheeling and Dealing
33 Another Jam Session
34 An Ace Up Our Sleeve
35 The absolute deterrent …
36 With some of that money …(A reprint of Vol. X,, Art. 16)
37 Clutching at Straws
38 Bone of Contention
39 Sea Cows vs. Sea Dogs?

Vol.XII

1 Clean Trucks or Dirty Tricks?
2 Between a monolith and a hard place …
3 The End of the Line
4 Just scratching the surface
5 “… just another white elephant …”
6 Navy Beans
7 Viewer discetion advised
8 Stating the Obvious
9 … if there was a need …
10 The Business End
11 A Committee of Errors
12 Virtual Security
13 “One if by land, and two if by sea …”
14 Greed Acres
15 ” … the business of fear”
16 Pork and Beans
17 Scan(dal)
18 Inscrutable Scrutiny
19 Bearing the Brunt
20 Greasing the wheel that squeaks the loudest, maybe?
21 Knee-deep in Developments
22 Seoul Beneficiaries
23 Bogged Down Under
24 Expressing Relief
25 Very murky indeed!
26 Point By Point
27 The benefits are incalculable …
28 Ever Green
29 “Far from the madding crowd”
30 A Fistful of Peanuts
31 Fee! Fine! Foe! Fum!
32 Shipping 101
33 The Little Train That Shouldn’t
34 Cluster Headaches
35 A Crash Course in Logistics
36 Double-dippers?
37 Aye, Aye, Captain!
38 Agreeing to Disagree
39 Hitting the Bottle(neck)

Vol.XIII

1 NIMBY-witted
2 Good Gravy!
3 Frog Soup?
4 Inside Pitch
5 Bustling Out All Over
6 Sick and Tired
7 Speaking of port productivity … (A repeat of Three-part Harmony, Vol. VIII, Art. 36)
8 Phace the Phacts!
9 Planes, Trains, Automobiles … and SHIPS?!
10 White Elephants On Parade
11 A Complex Complex
12 An Apparent Concern
13 A Greener Shade of Green
14 Sittin’ on the Dark of the Bay … (A reprint of Vol. X, Art. 33)
15 Mis-Fortune Cookies?
16 Power Failures
17 “Economies of scale” (the scam what am!)
18 Trendy Developments
19 All of the Above
20 “Bottom feeders” and Crumbs
21 ASP Venom
22 Breakthrough No. 5,860,783
23 Self-support Group
24 Under the Radar
25 Guess Again
26 A City of Two Tales
27 The Seven Year (H)itch
28 … falling on deaf ears?
29 We’re not in Kansas anymore!
30 Control Freaks
31 Robbing Peterbilt to pay Paul
32 Something stinks in Long Beach … (A reprint of Vol. VIII, Art. 22)
33 Losing one’s train of thought …
34 The “in-house” cure-all
35 Special-lies
36 Doin’ the “California Side Step”
37 ‘Tis the season to be jolly, but … (A timely reprint of Vol. V, Art. 34)
38 Re-solution
39 “Nothing of substance”?
40 Pick-six and deep-six

Vol.XIV

Vol.XV

Vol.XVI

Vol.XVII

Vol.XVIII

1 “Speak for yourself, John …”
2 The Year of the (B)OX
3 A Bold and Brazen Claim
4 Red Alert
5 Back to Work
6 “Tomorrow never comes?” Sez who? (A reprint of Vol. XVI, Art. 13)
7 Still Missing the Boat?
8 Small Change
9 Let Lying Dogs Sleep
10 Thrown for a (deep-sea) loop
11 Incapacity?
12 Prolonging the Agony
13 Unkindest Cuts
14 The Great Manic-Depression
15 Another OP-ED
16 Fit for a ROI?
17 Robbin’ Hoods
18 If These Wallets Could Talk …
19 Diving into the Labor Pool (A reprint of Vol. XVI, Art. 4)
20 Doin’ a job on US again!
21 “Put it back!”
22 A Pixie Dusting
23 No Foolin’!
24 Politically Un-corrected
25 “Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’…”
26 A TERRIFIC Tribute!
27 Reality Check
28 From Bad to Worse
29 Unscrambling for Cover
30 Laid-up and laid-off
31 “Slow down and get it right”!
32 Miracle Tea
33 Don’t bank on it!
34 Backed by popular demand?
35 ‘Round and ‘Round We Go
36 Cleaning Up?
37 “It’s just not there. It’s gone.”
38 Floating Debts

Vol.XIX

1 Sold Down the River
2 Getting Ones Hands Dirty
3 More Bombast …
4 G-Whiz!
5 … Hoppin’ down the money trail?
6 Hungering for a Solution
7 Sold Down the River (A repeat of 1)
8 Dissembly Lines
9 Age-old Adages (A repeat of Vol. XVII, Art. 30)
10 In Retrospect
11 Another Bank Job
12 Cover it with a TARP
13 Honest, Abe!
14 Question Box
15 Because!!
16 More “bailout” money – and even more caveats …
17 Building on History
19 Politically Un-corrected (A repeat of Vol. XVIII, Art. 24)
20 Going into extra innings …
21 Doing double duty … (Repeating Vol. XVIII, Arts. 25 and 26)
22 Down this road before …
23 “Cash burn” …
24 “How?” …
25 Cream and sugar? …
26 “Have a Less Bad Day!”
27 Going Under the Knife
28 Baloney a la mode
29 Putting On Our Thinking Caps
30 Transparent Rap
31 Numerical Disorder
32 Switching Gears
33 Unanswered questions … (A reprint of 30)
34 Adding Insult To Injury
34 Breaking News!
35 Jobs = Paychecks
36 Long Range Goals
37 Short Term Memories
38 Slumbering Elephants
39 Right All Along

Vol.XX

1 A Prescription for Disaster
2 Rose Garden Promises
3 Sentimental Journey
4 On the Hook
5 Bigger Is Not Better
6 “Honey, I Shrunk the Economy”
7 Diverting Attention
8 Emergency Breaks
9 The Ugly Truth
10 Economics 102
11 The Multiplier Effect
12 Listless Economy?
13 I’ll Take Manhattan …
14 Recessive Memories (A reprint of Vol. XX, Art. 14 … Four years ago today)
15 Stable Lies
16 Take your pick …
17 We Need Jobs
18 Checks and Balances
19 Wrong Approach
20 Scary Bad
21 Ghost Ships
22 “Earth will not see such ships as those again” – John Masefield
24 Stroked Again
25 High Anxiety (A reprint of Vol. XX, Art. 25 – two years ago today. Deja vu again!)
26 Bottomless Pitch
28 Hingham: ‘E’ for Excellence
29 Capped-and-Tradeless
30 Not Counting
31 A Barometer of Truth
33 Idled Threat
34 Don’t hold your breath …
35 Heavy Mettle
36 London Fog
37 Health Care Deceit …
38 Up Ship Creek
39 Five years and counting …
40 The Linch-pin … We bring our 5th year to a close by reprinting Vol. XX, Art. 40 (Sept. 30, 2009).

Vol.XXI

Vol.XXII

1 A New Decade
2 Victory on Land and Sea
3 Double Check!
4 A Shot in the Arm
5 The Lowdown
6 Jobber-wacky
7 Oh, Fudge!
8 A Stern Warning
9 Upturn Nose?
10 If It’s Thursday, This Must Be Belgium
11 Getting the picture … Reprinting Vol. V, Art. 31 (12-9-2005)
12 Prolonging the Agony … A repeat of Vol. XVIII, Art. 12 (Exactly one year ago today.)
13 Everything New Is Old Again
14 Jobs, Jobs, Jobs …
15 In Theory
16 Brinkmanship
17 With some of that money … (A reprint of Vol. X, Art. 16 … four years ago today.)
18 Dream Jobs
19 On the Ropes
20 Digging In
21 Taking Care of Business
22 Bigger Headaches
23 Bullets
24 After 365 days we’re a lot worse off … (A reprint of Vol. XVIII, Art. 24)
25 Snow Job
26 March Wind
27 But wait. There’s more…
28 With the Stroke of a Pen
29 Sound Bites
30 The Hidden Truth
31 Malice in Wonderland
32 Public Option = No Option (A repeat of Vol. XX, Art. 32)
32 Chinese Jump Rope
34 Staying Afloat
35 Doing a Slow Steam
36 Probably Doubtful
37 Numerical Disorder … (Another look at Vol. XIX, Art. 31)
38 The Thundering Heard
39 Fleecing Thoughts

Vol.XXIII

Vol.XXIV

Vol.XXV

1 Paddling Up A Storm
2 Title …
3 Signs of the Times
4 “Sustainability”?
5 An Economic Breakdown
6 Cold Cuts
7 Getting the Connection
8 A Place in the Sun
9 Time-tested … (A reprint of Vol. XXI, Art. 9 – one year ago today.)
10 A prudent, sensible investment …
11 Granted for Takin’!
12 Chestnut Groves (A Reprint of Vol. XVI, Art. 26 – 8/27/08)
13 Baird Facts
14 Forging Ahead
15 Progressively Worse
16 Indian Rope Trick
17 Cry Me A River
18 Stats and Gimmicks
20 Armistice Day (A reprint of Vol. XXII, Art. 30, “The Hidden Truth”)
21 Setting the Table
22 Free T(i)rade
23 Compelling Signs?
24 Jobs Now?
25 It Figures
26 Between the Lines
27 Partly cloudy, with a chance of flood …
28 The Eleventh Hour (A reprint of Vol. X, Art. 4 – Jan. 9, 2006)
29 The name of the game is JOBS!
30 Seamless!
31 The Ebb and Flow
32 A Race to a Distant Planet
33 That Old Refrain
34 War Is a Lie … A book report
35 Now is the winter of our discontent
36 Giant Possibilities (Printed as Vol. XXI, Art. 36 … One year ago today.)
37 Yearly Review (Nothing new since Vol. XVII, Art. 37 … Dec. 24, 2008.)
38 Rattling Some Cages
39 Resuscitation Order
40 Auld Lanxiety

Vol.XXVI

Vol.XXVII

1 New Clear Facts
2 Sheep and cannon fodder …
3 Radiating Hope
4 Peril on the High Seas
5 Same Old Story
6 Sea Knights
7 Seafarers’ Plight
8 Sham Stats
9 One Ghastly Thing
10 Jobs-on-the-ground
11 If You Get the Drift
12 “Is there an echo in here?” (A reprint of Vol. VII, Art. 18 – May 12, 2006)
13 Think back …
14 Can you spell “f-a-l-s-e f-l-a-g”? …
15 Money Talk
16 Of Deadlines and Lifelines
17 Major Headaches
18 Elementary
19 A Fee-ble Explanation
19 Food for Thought
20 Running On Empty
22 Down this road again
23 The “Project” …
24 3,000 Miles of Torn Up Road
25 Can You Dig It?
26 A Catchy Idea
27 Plug and Pay
28 Too Big For Their Bridges … A repeat of Vol. XI, Art. 4 (April 9, 2007)
29 Slow Stealing
30 Transparent Rap … (Repeating Vol. XIX, Art. 30 again, and things have gotten worse.)
31 Upper West Side Story
32 Let’s Fix It!
33 Just warming up …(A reprint of Vol. XV, Art. 33 – Three years ago today, June 15, 2008)
34 Green Fees
35 Learning Curve
36 All Hands on Deck!
37 The 100% Solution
38 Slumbering Elephants … (A reprint of Vol. XIX, Art. 38 – Two years ago today.)
39 Bottom of the Ninth

Vol.XXVIII

1 Half a Loaf?
2 Sentimental Journey … Our 4th of July, 2009 commentary. (See any “change” yet?)
3 Feeding Lines
4 This Stone Won’t Float
5 Money vs. Time
6 Summer Squash
7 Spelling Lesson?
8 Multiple Choice
9 Slow Burn
10 The Invisible Man
11 Bread and Butter … or Toast!
12 Common Cents
14 Port-folio Recovery
15 Bad Stats
16 Simmer in the City
17 50 Million and Counting (A reprint of Vol. XX, Art. 17 … August 8, 2009 – Two years ago today)
18 The Only Way Back
19 Beneath the Surface
20 Dead in the Water
21 Cooked Goose
22 Tipping the Scales
23 A Kick in the Bridges
23 When Cooler Heads Prevail
24 Fan Mail
25 High Anxiety (A reprint of Vol. XX, Art. 25 – two years ago today. Deja vu again!)
26 The Prez sez …
27 A Pitching Battle
28 We’re Pretty Annoyed!
29 Zero Gravity
30 Poll-axed
31 Canned Spinnage
32 The Economy Doctor (A reprint of Vol. XXIV, Art. 32 – One year ago today.)
33 A Taxing Exercise
34 Sputtering Ahead!
35 Jeering Section
36 The Cold Facts
37 Long Range Assignment
38 Paved with Gold Intentions
39 More Bad Stats
40 Seven years ago today … and “the demanding American consumer” and “incredible growth”.

Vol.XXIX

Vol.XXX

Vol.XXXI

Vol.XXXII

Vol.XXXIII

Vol.XXXIV

Vol.XXXV

Vol.XXXVI

Vol.XXXVII

Vol.XXXVIII

Vol.XXXIX

Vol.XL

1 Laissez-(fair)e?
2 Prove It!
3 Science Friction?
4 Putting Out the Fire with Gasoline
5 A Peace of the Action
6 Virtual Economies
7 Wrap It Up
8 Well, I’ll eat my Panama hat!
9 Costly Miscalculations
10 An Ongoing Stoppage
11 Oh, the cost of staying attractive! (A reprint of Vol. XXXVI, Art. 11 – One year ago today.)
12 ‘Chicken Little’ Politics
13 Locks and Bungles
14 Striking It Poor
15 Pitching a Ditch
16 The Bio-Fool Manifesto
17 A Snails Pitch?
18 Halving It All
19 Bearing the Brunt (A reprint of Vol. XII, Art. 19 … seven years ago today – August 13, 2007)
20 Mega-Debt
22 Shopaholics?
23 Secured Lines
24 The Mega-solution
25 Lawn and Order
26 Groaning with the Market
27 Elsewhere Over the Rainbow
28 One Big Pill
29 Free for the Asking
30 Go NORTH, young man!
31 Bummers and Boomers
32 Sea Fees vs Truck Bucks
33 A Finger In The Dike
33 A Disservice Economy
34 Real Money
35 Lowering the Boom
36 Screen Play
37 Giant Repercussions
38 Many Happy Returns (A reprint of Vol. XVI, Art. 38… 6 years ago today … Sept. 26, 2008)
39 When money talks, people listen