Field notes

Insights from the spine

Short, sourced, and written for people who already know what a TIR carnet is — or are about to find out.

Essay · Trade · 12 min

A continental market is a legal achievement. A corridor is a physical one. The House reads the protocol against the queue.

Infrastructure

Incompatible rail still fragments the North–South spine.

Digital

Who sees the truck before it reaches the border?

Climate

Flood plains, wildlife, and the cost of a straight line.

Inland terminals that actually shorten the sea — and those that only relocate the queue.

Authorities, shippers, counties, and the empty chair where ecology should be.

What a port town becomes when the corridor finally works — and when it doesn’t.