物流英语unit two(Transportation)

The five modes of transportation
The five modes of transportation are rail, road, pipeline, water and air. Each has different economic and service characteristics.
• Preview of the text Answer the following questions and discuss your answers in class. 1) What are the characteristics of road transportation? 2) What are the advantages of water transport?
Road transport: In most cases of road transport, Motor Carriers Transport is used. The motor carrier is very much a part of any transport chain. Almost every logistics operation utilizes the motor truck, from the smallest pickup truck to the largest tractorsemitrailer combination, in some capacity. The motor carrier industry consists of for-hire and private carriers. Private motor carriers transport freight that is owned by the firm that owns/leases and operates the trucks. The logistics manager must consider the relatively high cost of using a motor carrier. The average truck revenue per ton-mile is higher than that of rail and water. The average distance is about 1000 miles for using trucks in some cases. The loading area is protected by tarpaulin. The commodity must be well secured as the tarpaulin may not withstand high speed.
Very low low
Environme low ntal impact
Rail transport: the railroad is a slow mover of raw materials (coal, chemicals, etc.) and of low-value finished products (paper, tinned food, etc.). This is due mainly to three reasons: • convoys transporting freight have low priority compared to trains transporting passengers; • direct train connections are quite rare; • a convoy must include tens of cars in order to be worth operating.
Unit Two
Transportation
Part I Five Modes of Transportation • Lead In Supposing you must send 12000 tons goods in the next days, but the loading takes too much time and you need to save that. You have a transport chain over sea and over land. Which modes of transportation will you choose? What will be the advantage?
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Very high low
sometimes
Very high nil
Packaging High Needs
medium high
Risk of loss and damage
FlexibilityHigh来自medium medium
low
Very low
low
high high
low low
Very low medium
Rail Price Speed low slow
Road High fast
Water Very low Very slow
Air
Very high Very fast
Pipeline
Very low slow
Door
Reliability
sometimes sometim yes es Medium medium low
Text: Functions and Five Modes of Transportation
Functions of Transportation Transportation is a critical part of any global logistics effort because of the long distances that can separate a firm from its customers. Transportation allows production and consumption to take place at locations that are several hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from each other.