The biggest losers in Japanese trading house Marubeni’s $5.6 billion deal to buy Gavilon may not be the quartet of huge Western traders who have long dominated the global grain markets, such as Cargill. Instead, it is the...
Read MoreA New York-New Jersey terminal operator unveiled plans for labor-saving technology in an expansion set to open in 2014, but the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association said he’ll resist job cuts. “We’re going...
Read MoreTwo forces are pulling America’s timber industry in opposite directions. One is the nascent recovery in the U.S. housing market. The other is a drop in Chinese demand. For the moment, the drop in Chinese demand is winning....
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