Transport Logistics In Asia

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pbs guardian benzinga Looking back over the spectacle that’s unfolded since that grand opening ceremony, have these Olympics done what China wanted them to do? JAMES FALLOWS, Reporter, The Atlantic Monthly: I think that, on balance, China has Car Share to be happy with the way things have turned out here. A lot of things that could have been big, deal-breaking problems for the Olympics, starting with the air and starting with some kind of big demonstrations or disruption that got a lot of international attention, those things have not happened. Athletically, of course, the Chinese teams have done very, very well. So while not everything has gone exactly as most of the Chinese audience would have wanted, especially the withdrawal from the hurdles of Liu Xiang, the national hero, I think, on the whole, this has been a big success from China’s perspective. RAY SUAREZ: Well, how does this differ from the national hopes and anxieties that an American might have felt about the Atlanta games going well, or an Australian about the Sydney games, or an Italian about the games in Turin? Was there something more riding on this for China?JAMES FALLOWS: Sure. Of course, from China’s perspective, the issue was this was the first time China had held this kind of international event. There’s been diplomatic conferences here over the years. But in terms of a large-scale blowout of this sort, it really was unprecedented for China. And while I will not use and have not used in any writing, until this second, the cliche “coming-out party,” there was a sense that China was going to be tested. What you heard in all the sort of pre-games publicity here for even a year or so was, “Are we ready? We are ready. We’ll deal with the air. We’ll deal with the logistics. We’ll get the subway lines going.” And so, in a way, there’s a kind of nonchalance that London can have about the games next time, because they’ve had Olympic Games before. The U.S. has had lots of Olympic Games and the Italians, too. So the fact that this hasn’t ever happened made that much more pressure for the Chinese, probably that much more relief that this turned out well, and that much more pressure on poor Liu Xiang, who, again, was the only athlete they’ve ever had in track and field who won a gold medal. RAY SUAREZ: You mentioned that worry, “Are we ready? Yes, we’re ready.” Well, were they? Did they manage with the air? Did they manage with the transportation, the logistics, the security? JAMES FALLOWS: I think the test or the standard on the “are we ready” front was that things worked well enough so that everybody would have to say, on balance, it’s been a well-run Olympics. The air was a really, really close run thing. On the morning of the opening ceremonies, the air was looking as bad as it had been for quite a while, and probably for the next 36 hours after that, too. But then due to whatever intervention you want to credit, whether it was the weather rockets or the People’s Liberation Army or divine intervention, there was a huge thunderstorm, a cold front. And since then, the air has been good enough that nobody’s complained about it. The logistics, again, have not been perfect. I think people who are not able to read any Chinese might sometimes find themselves getting lost. Many, many, many of the venues have had swaths of open seats because of problems in allocating tickets. There basically has been no food to buy in any of these places, except potato chips and ice cream, which is a whole different topic. But it has worked will enough. The public has been friendly enough. And for the political aspect, the government has been tight enough in controlling demonstrations before they occur that they’ve avoided the sort of incidents that I, frankly, was thought would be the main threat to their harmonious running of the game.RAY SUAREZ: I want to take a closer look at both the empty seats and the protests. First, those seats. Sometimes in a wide shot of a competition, you’d see an amazing number of empty seats and wonder why, in a country of 1.3 billion people, there weren’t full houses for everything. JAMES FALLOWS: This is one of the mysteries of the Olympic Games that people have discussed. In my own experience, I’ve been now to five different events, which has been great. One of them was a full house, which was the U.S.-China baseball game a couple days ago, but I saw Venus and Serena Williams play tennis with basically nobody there in a doubles match. I saw Michael Phelps in a heat with half of the stadium empty. And this was especially because, for the last year, everybody inside China where I’ve been has been told there’s no tickets, they’ve all been sold, you’ve got to queue up, you know, at 4:00 in the morning to try to get some, and we put them on sale next week. And so what has happened to them — the main hypothesis is this, that a whole lot of them have been given out to organizing groups, whether sponsors from international companies, whether provincial governments, the Chinese Central Committee, the IOC, you name it. And one way or another, they just didn’t get passed around. It’s a real shame, because so many people would have liked to see so many events. But I think that’s one of the few actually embarrassing points for the organizers of how many big events played before empty houses. RAY SUAREZ: And about the protests, the Chinese Olympic Organizing Committee had set aside protest zones, which, by all accounts, were empty during the length of the games. And they managed to swoop down on anyone about to unfurl a banner or take off an over-shirt to reveal an embarrassing T-shirt, even. Has that suppression left a sour taste in the mouths of visitors from around the world where that kind of thing wouldn’t happen? JAMES FALLOWS: I think a lot of people have to — who come from other countries have to have noticed how carefully things have been locked up here. I’ll tell you what I expected. It is just a given about the Chinese security forces that they will overreact to anything that looks like a protest, a demonstration, any kind of threat to public order. What I thought would happen is they’d overreact when something happened during the games. In fact, they overreacted strongly enough before the games happened that nothing –practically nothing was able to get under way. I’ve heard about a few incidents where people have been able to get Tibetan flags out or some other protest subject. And they were immediately rounded up by the police. The most sort of blatant thing the authorities have done is to declare these three zones for authorized protest and then grant absolutely zero of the requests for people to protest there and arrest some people who tried. I mean, it really is incredible, but it’s a sign of how on the divide between being deft and delicate in the eyes of the world and just cracking down and making sure that order is maintained, there’s one way that the government will go.RAY SUAREZ: The Chinese went as far as to arrest two elderly ladies who wanted to complain about the amount of demolition that went on to build the Olympic venues, and now they’re being sent for re-education. Do the Chinese not worry about the public relations problems that come from that kind of thing? JAMES FALLOWS: You know, evidently they must not worry about it enough, must not worry about it enough to avoid these really, really crude gestures. There was another incident where, after a long, long time of promising open access to the Internet for the international press, when they got here, the government for a while decided to close it down. And then they changed that policy. So it is one of the real quandaries of the system here of why they don’t seem to care how these things are perceived around the world. I guess it is just a matter of priority of values, or hierarchy of values, that it always, even in prosperous China, even with so many things being so open here, maintaining order and containing any kind of what’s seen as a threat will take precedence over just about anything, even looking good and jovial. RAY SUAREZ: Well, along with the concerns about being seen to throw a great worldwide party, the Chinese also wanted to succeed on the field of competition. That’s gone well, too, hasn’t it? JAMES FALLOWS: It certainly has. The Chinese government has had a program over the last — you know, a long time — to develop that’s specifically focus on winning Olympic gold medals. And as of now, it seems to be a lock that they will end up at the Olympic Games with the most gold medals of anybody. The U.S. will probably have more medals overall, but there is a real emphasis on finding sports that are medal-rich, although perhaps not as medal-rich as Michael Phelps in swimming, and develop people who are the national champions. I think the counterpart with the U.S. would be, the U.S. has a whole lot of its people involved in sports of some kind. Same thing for Australia, same thing for France. And there’s always a deep pool of people. China has a shallower pool of people who are selected quite early in life for these selective training camps. And they’ve done very, very well. And I think it’s good from the world’s perspective that China has done as well as it has, because a confident-feeling China is probably a better result from these games than if it feels somehow victimized or denied its time in the limelight. RAY SUAREZ: It’s interesting that the Chinese have concluded that gold is the only color medal that matters. They’ve really put a lot of their energy into not just win, place, and show, but win, period. JAMES FALLOWS: If you look at the press here, both English-language and Chinese-language, the headlines are, you know, “Five More Golds in Chinese Hands.” I mean, it is — this is a natural tendency in any nation, whoever is leading the gold medal chart, will feel good about that. But I think there’s more emphasis on it here than there is in many other countries. I don’t have any big sweeping cultural explanation for that, but just as an observed fact, it seemed to be very much the case and very much on people’s minds. RAY SUAREZ: Does this signal China’s arrival as a world athletic power? Can I assume this is not just something that’s being done for the Beijing games and will evaporate by London in 2012? JAMES FALLOWS: They are obsessed with gold medal victories, and that’s fine, and I think they’re treating them as athletic achievements as opposed to something much, much more than that. RAY SUAREZ: It sounds like you’re describing a kind of positive nationalism, an optimistic, forward-looking, and proud-of-itself China. JAMES FALLOWS: I’ve been saying all along that, despite all of the complaints about the way the Chinese state is run in X, Y or Z way and how the Olympics are run, it’s in the world’s interest to have China feel good about this whole event, both in the way it pulls off as an event and also how their own athletes feel. Because historically — and I’m talking about the last century or so — the times when China has been most of a trouble to itself and to the world is when it’s feeling like a loser, when it’s feeling victimized, when it’s feeling somehow inferior. That makes for a worse and more difficult country, in addition to being bad for the Chinese people, than when it’s feeling more confident. So based on readings as of August 2008, as you and I talk, it seems to me that this has been good for China in a positive way and most of the decals you see on people’s face, you know, “I Love China,” and the cheers, and “Zhongguo, jia you,” that is, you know, “Let’s go, China,” those seem to me more positive than they do exclusive or putting down. And so I say bring them on. RAY SUAREZ: Yes, bring them on, sure, but make sure you have plenty to eat before you go to an Olympic event? JAMES FALLOWS: Yes, make sure you eat before you go there and you don’t try to sneak anything in, because it will be confiscated in the way in. And then it’s chips and saltines for the next five hours. RAY SUAREZ: James Fallows, good to talk to you. Thanks for joining us. China’s telecom sector saved a similar amount of emissions as the entire economy of Sweden in 2008, according to a report this week from WWF and China Mobile. Thanks to teleworking, electronic data storage and more efficient logistics, their jointly commissioned report calculated 48.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide were avoided that might otherwise have been spent on transport, freight and the production of paper and other materials. It is a contentious claim. The manufacturing of high-tech products is energy intensive and often results in pollution. Maintaining data centres – at a regular temperature – is also a fast-growing drain on power supplies. A recent study by the consultancy McKinsey says the carbon footprint of data centres worldwide is fast approaching the emissions of Argentina and the Netherlands. By 2020, it forecasts a near fourfold increase. In the new report, China Mobile insists such costs are worthwhile because its telecom services have saved five to six times as much carbon as the company emits. Its study – carried out by the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – anticipated still greater benefits in the future. By 2020, it said the greatest potential is in teleworking, which could save an estimated 340m tonnes of CO2 emissions in China. Longer term, it noted the best gains could come from virtual meetings, which could avoid 623m tonnes of transport-emitted CO2 by 2030. Although such studies are likely to raise suspicions of corporate greenwashing, the report has been endorsed by WWF. “It is important to pay attention to the companies that deliver the solutions society needs, and not only focus on those that are big emitters,” said Dermot O’Gorman, the country representative of WWF China. “We want to support China and Chinese companies to take the lead in a solution approach that can deliver results not just in China, but globally.” Technology is clearly part of any solution to the world’s environment problems, but recent history suggests expectations for IT are often disappointed, and can be counter-productive if not mixed with other actions. In recent decades, rapid advances in communications technology have only served to increase energy demands in other sectors of the economy. “We know information technology alone cannot provide all the answers,” said Zheng Ping, of the WWF’s climate and energy programme. “People and businesses must also change the way they behave or these solutions won’t work.” 2008-9 represented difficult years for China’s logistics industry as the global financial crisis of the developed world led China’s export-oriented economy to slow. Nevertheless, China’s logistics industry retained growth figures that remain the envy of the world. However, in recognition of the problems Beijing has invested vast sums of money into improving China’s transport infrastructure through projects such as the country’s planned high-speed rail network. New airports, container terminals, and expressways — coupled with legislative initiatives like the Fuel Tax Law — will also help streamline and modernise China’s logistics industry. Beijing has also capitalised on the recent slowdown in international trade to implement wide ranging structural reform of the logistics industry in an effort to force the industry into a sustained period of merger and acquisition activity, in an attempt to forge a fully national industry capable of competing head on, on a global level. Providing cheap credit and tax breaks, Beijing hopes to give its domestic logistics players the head start they need to mop up the excess capacity and wasteful under-agglomeration that they perceive as holding the nation’s logistic industry back. This, coupled with massive investments in hinterland infrastructure designed to tie the country together as a single unified economy, form the backbone of the Logistics Restructuring and Revitalisation Plan and present numerous opportunities and challenges for all those with a vested interest in the China logistics market. With the central government laying out the overall structure of the plan, much of the specifics will fall to local cities and provinces for specific finalisation and implementation. Creating a need for high level skills and consulting services as implementation progresses. In the air freight sector most carriers, as well as shippers, appear confident that 2010 will represent a general stabilisation of overall demand and return to 2008 volumes. Most believe that this demand is likely to take the shape of mini-troughs and mini-peaks, due to the continued unpredictability of demand. Added to this, China’s investment in airport infrastructure development will be best acne treatment enormous. According to a plan formulated in 2008, the country intends to spend more on airport infrastructure development over the next five years than the entirety of its airport investment program since the start of the reform era, a figure likely to approach USD 20 bn by 2013. In the road haulage sector, passage of a new fuel tax law has been met with mixed reactions. In addition, fluctuating fuel prices, the financial crisis and the fractional margins endemic in the sector have forced many firms out of business. In the long term, despite recent difficulties, the express delivery market in China promises only to expand, buoyed by the phenomenal growth of the nascent e-commerce industry. The establishment of the China Express Association, a non-profit association aiming to bridge the gap between companies and the central government, indicates the vital importance of express delivery in China’s logistics outlook. Container throughput fell 6 percent to 121m on year as the global economic slowdown curtailed Chinese economic activity in the beginning of the year. Though throughput activity intensified in the latter months of the year, overall numbers still represented the first drop since the reform and opening period began in the late 1970s. Despite these figures, forecasters are optimistic that growth figures will be positive in 2010. Most projections place throughput growth at 2 percent, which would bring overall TEU numbers to 125m. The China Logistics Development Report 2010, produced by China Intelligence Online, contains data, information and analysis essential for a thorough understanding of the world’s most dynamic logistics market. The report includes: * Up-to-date analysis of the Logistics Stimulus Package, Fuel Tax Law, and other government measures that directly affect China’s logistics industry. * Comprehensive coverage of infrastructure development across several transport modes including China’s high-speed rail network. * Thorough survey of China’s express-delivery market as well as one of China’s most dynamic new sectors: e-commerce. * Coverage not only of China’s developed coastal regions but also of the inland regions that represent the real opportunities in the coming decades. * The statistical data essential to measuring developments in the world’s most dynamic logistics industry. Much analysis of China’s logistics network focuses on the more-established coastal provinces, and for good reason. China’s coastal provinces have dominated the national economy since the reform and opening period began in the late 1970s. However, with the Go West programme entering its second decade China’s inland provinces have established themselves as crucial cogs in China’s logistics apparatus and are now the focus of massive levels of infrastructure and logistics investment which the government sees as crucial to raising living standards in the vast hinterland. Cities like Chengdu, Chongqing and Kunming have become hot-spots of infrastructure development as well as major centres of research and development. These inland border regions have also established closer ties with countries on China’s periphery, creating nascent trade opportunities that may wean China away from its dependence on overseas trade partners. CIOs China Logistics Development Report 2010 examines China’s inland regions closely and identifies trends that those focused on only Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou ignore at their peril. The China Logistics Development Report 2010 more than simply summarises the status of China’s main transport and logistics sectors. The report also reveals the trends that will guide each sector in 2010 and beyond. Sectors discussed in detail include: * Rail * Container Ports * Bulk * E-Commerce * Express Delivery * Road * Air * Hinterland Infrastructure. China Intelligence Online’s China Logistics Development Report 2010 provides the data, information, and analysis crucial to understanding the logistics market in one of the world’s most vital economies. This report is indispensable to those involved with logistics, transport, finance, trade, and a host of other industries. China’s dynamism can challenge those seeking a clear, comprehensive picture of the country’s economy. China Intelligence Online’s team of researchers and analysts has the experience and expertise needed provide the information you demand. CLDR also contains over 150 pages of supply chain infrastructure listings including logistics parks, special processing zones, bonded warehouses, government contacts, 3PLs and logistics providers across 39 cities in China. Greater China Transport Logistics is a daily news web portal providing transport, logistics and supply chain management news in the Asia Pacific region. It is operated by FocusAsia Media Ltd. It publishes daily China logistics news in English,Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The company also publishes GCTL Insights Magazine which provides both online and print version. A group of experienced journalists in the field of transportation and logistics provides an alternative view and unbiased commentary on industry developments in Asia at GCTL8.com. The news web portal, GCTL8.com, started operations in 2005. It records an average of over 2 million hits monthly and its daily email newsletter reaches about 40,000 subscribers. 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Paid members can gain full access to its daily news, email newsletter contents and the other benefits including GCTL Insights Magazine, Special Reports, Archives, Cargo Leads, Urgently Wanted Ads data etc. Non paying members can gain limited access of GCTL Insights Magazine for two current issues while they cannot access to back issues of GCTL Insights Magazine and they can only read the first three lines of each daily news in GCTL8.com as well as email newsletter. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of consumers (frequently, and originally, military organizations). Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a channel of the supply chain which adds the value of time and place utility. Today the complexity of production logistics can be modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation software. The term logistics comes from the Greek logos meaning “speech, reason, ratio, rationality, language, phrase”, and more specifically from the Greek word logistiki meaning accounting and financial organization. Logistics is considered to have originated in the military’s need to supply themselves with arms, ammunition and rations as they moved from their base to a forward position. In ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine empires, military officers with the title Logistikas were responsible for financial and supply distribution matters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines logistics as “the branch of military science having to do with procuring, maintaining and transporting material, personnel and facilities.” Another dictionary definition is “the time-related positioning of resources.” As such, logistics is commonly seen as a branch of engineering that creates “people systems” rather than “machine systems”. Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is a discipline used in military industries to ensure an easily supportable system with a robust customer service (logistic) concept at the lowest cost and in line with (often high) reliability, availability, maintainability and other requirements as defined for the project. In military logistics, logistics officers manage how and when to move resources to the places they are needed. In military science, maintaining one’s supply lines while disrupting those of the enemy is a crucial—some would say the most crucial—element of military strategy, since an armed force without resources and transportation is defenseless. The defeat of the British in the American War of Independence and the defeat of the Axis in the African theatre of World War II have been largely attributed to logistical failure.[citation needed] The historical leaders Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, and the Duke of Wellington are considered to have been logistical geniuses. Logistics management is that part of the supply chain which plans, implements and controls the efficient, effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customer and legal requirements. A professional working in the field of logistics management is called a logistician. The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT) was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 and was granted a Royal Charter in 1926. The Chartered Institute is one of the professional bodies or institutions, for the logistics and transport sectors, that offers professional qualifications or degrees in logistics management. Third-party logistics involves using external organizations to execute logistics activities that have traditionally been performed within an organization itself. According to this definition, third-party logistics includes any healthy living form of outsourcing of logistics activities previously performed in-house. If, for example, a company with its own warehousing facilities decides to employ external transportation, this would be an example good health of third-party logistics. Logistics is an emerging business area in many countries. 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Some ships, such as submarines, use nuclear logo polo shirts power to produce the steam. Recreational or educational craft still use wind power, while some smaller craft use internal combustion engines to drive one or more propellers, or in the case of jet boats, an inboard water jet. In shallow draft areas, hovercraft are propelled by large pusher-prop fans. Although slow, modern sea transport is a highly effective method of transporting large quantities of non-perishable goods. Commercial vessels, nearly 35,000 in number, carried 7.4 billion tons of cargo in 2007. Transport by water is significantly less costly than air transport for trans-continental shipping; short sea shipping and ferries remain viable in coastal areas. Pipeline transport sends goods through a pipe, most commonly liquid and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes can also send solid capsules using compressed air. For liquids/gases, any chemically stable liquid or gas can be sent through a pipeline. Short-distance systems exist for sewage, slurry, water and beer, while long-distance networks are used for petroleum and natural gas. Cable transport is a broad mode where vehicles are pulled by cables instead of an internal power source. It is most commonly used at steep gradient. Typical solutions include aerial tramway, elevators, escalator and ski lifts; some of these are also categorized as conveyor transport. Spaceflight is transport out of Earth’s atmosphere into outer space by means of a spacecraft. While large amounts of research have gone into technology, it is rarely used except to put satellites into orbit, and conduct scientific experiments. However, man has landed on the moon, and probes have been sent to all the planets of the Solar System. Suborbital spaceflight is the fastest of the existing and planned transport systems from a place on Earth to a distant other place on Earth. Faster transport could be achieved through part of a Low Earth orbit, or following that trajectory even faster using the propulsion of the rocket to steer it. Infrastructure is the fixed installations that allow a vehicle to operate. It consists of both a way wealthy affiliate review, terminal and facilities for parking and maintenance. For rail, pipeline, road and cable transport, the entire way the vehicle travels must be built up. Air and water craft are able to avoid this, since the airway and seaway do not need to be built up. However, they require fixed infrastructure at terminals. Terminals such as airports, ports and stations, are locations where passengers and freight can be transferred from one vehicle or mode to another. For passenger transport, terminals are integrating different modes to allow riders to interchange to take advantage of each mode’s advantages. For instance, airport rail links connect airports to the city centers and suburbs. The terminals for automobiles are parking lots, while buses and coaches can operates from simple stops. For freight, terminals act as transshipment points, though some cargo is transported directly from the point of production to the point of use. The financing of infrastructure can either be public or private. Transport is often a natural monopoly and a necessity for the public; roads, and in some countries railways and airports are funded through taxation. New infrastructure projects can involve large spendings, and are often financed through debt. Many infrastructure owners therefore impose usage fees, such as landing fees at airports, or toll plazas on roads. Independent of this, authorities may impose taxes on the purchase or use of vehicles. A vehicle is any non-living device that is used to move people and goods. Unlike the infrastructure, the vehicle moves along with the cargo and riders. Vehicles that do not operate on land, are usually called crafts. Unless being pulled by a cable or muscle-power, the vehicle must provide its own propulsion; this is most commonly done through a steam engine, combustion engine, electric motor, a jet engine or a rocket, though other means of propulsion also exist. Vehicles also need a system of converting the energy into movement; this is most commonly done through wheels, propellers and pressure. Vehicles are most commonly staffed by a driver. However, some systems, such as people movers and some rapid transits, are fully automated. For passenger transport, the vehicle must have a compartment for the passengers. Simple vehicles, such as automobiles, bicycles or simple aircraft, may have one of the passengers as a driver. Private transport is only subject to the owner of the vehicle, who operates the vehicle themselves. For public transport and freight transport, operations are done through private enterprise or by governments. The infrastructure and vehicles may be owned and operated by the same company, or they may be operated by different entities. Traditionally, many countries have had a national airline and national railway. Since the 1980s, many of these have been privatized. International shipping remains a highly competitive industry with little regulation, but ports can be public owned. Relocation of travelers and cargo are the most common uses of transport. However, other uses exist, such as the strategic and tactical relocation of armed forces during warfare, or the civilian mobility construction or emergency equipment. Borivali station platform numbers 3 and 4 during peak hours(8-9 a.m.). Note the crowd waiting on the left platform. From this platform trains depart for Churchgate, where the offices are located. Location: Borivali Station, Mumbai, India. Passenger transport, or travel, is divided into public and private transport. Public is scheduled services on fixed routes, while private is vehicles that provide ad hoc services at the riders desire. The latter offers better flexibility, but has lower capacity, and a higher environmental impact. Travel may be as part of daily commuting, for business, leisure or migration. Short-haul transport is dominated by the automobile and mass transit. The latter consists of buses in rural and small cities, supplemented with commuter rail, trams and rapid transit in larger cities. Long-haul transport involves the use of the automobile, trains, coaches and aircraft, the last of which have become predominantly used for the longest, including intercontinental, travel. Intermodal passenger transport is where a journey is performed through the use of several modes of transport; since all human transport normally starts and ends with walking, all passenger transport can be considered intermodal. Public transport may also involve the intermediate change of vehicle, within or across modes, at a transport hub, such as a bus or railway station. Taxis and Buses can be found on both ends of Public Transport spectrum, whereas Buses remain the cheaper mode of transport but are not necessarily flexible, and Taxis being very flexible but more expensive. In the middle is Demand responsive transport offering flexibility whilst remaining affordable. International travel may be restricted for some individuals due to legislation and visa requirements. Freight transport, or shipping, is a key in the value chain in manufacturing. With increased specialization and globalization, production is being located further away from consumption, rapidly increasing the demand for transport. While all modes of transport are used for cargo transport, there is high differentiation between the nature of the cargo transport, in which mode is chosen. Logistics refers to the entire process of transferring products from producer to consumer, including storage, transport, transshipment, warehousing, material-handling and packaging, with associated exchange of information. Incoterm deals with the handling of payment and responsibility of risk during transport. Freight train with shipping containers in the United Kingdom. Containerization, with the standardization of ISO containers on all vehicles and at all ports, has revolutionized international and domestic trade, offering huge reduction in transshipment costs. Traditionally, all cargo had to be manually loaded and unloaded into the haul of any ship or car; containerization allows for automated handling and transfer between modes, and the standardized sizes allow for gains in economy of scale in vehicle operation. This has been one of the key driving factors in international trade and globalization since the 1950s.

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