Moving Basic Materials Can Lead to Profit
Sea-born transportation of basic materials is one major step in getting basic materials to market. In the transportation network, however, it is only part of the chain that gets product to market. There are quite a few other opportunities along the chain where profit may be had. If the chain is to be followed from where the sea-born example was left off, the next profit opportunity would be inter-modal "hand-off." Generally, what this means is that once the product is removed from the sea-born transport system, or put into it for that matter, it needs to get where it can…