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Title: POINT OF VIEW: BULK GOES SEAMLESS: LIKE, ISN'T IT INTERMODAL?
Accession Number: 00750083
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: While containerization has unquestionably launched the biggest revolution in the maritime industry since the advent of steam power, the fact is that only about one-eighth of this nation's international trade volume (not value, but volume) is carried in boxes. And if one adds non-inland waterway domestic commerce--which at a billion tons a year rivals the total volume of our international trade--the percentage of U.S. cargo that moves in containers is small indeed. Nonetheless, noncontainerized cargo, starting with bulk commodities, has virtually disappeared from the attention screens of the policy makers, the politicians, and the press. Yet if we accept "intermodalism" and "seamless transportation" as both concepts and goals--as we must--what is more purely intermodal than the movement of most bulk cargo? For example, the Duluth-Superior port last year moved more than 40 million short tons of noncontainerized cargo, intermodally.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Helberg, DPagination: p. 30-31
Publication Date: 1998-5
Serial: TRT Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jun 30 1998 12:00AM
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