上外社物流英语课件U31.ppt

Learning objective  To understand the nature of transportation To learn the five modes of transportation To know about the important feature of maritime shipping To get familiar with intermodal transport Language points: How to say measurements and weights General Introduction of Transportation What is transportation? Transportation is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. major modes of transportation: Railway transportation, road transportation, waterway transportation, air transportation and pipeline transportation Diversity of Transportation Modes ? Road transportation what are the most important characteristics of road transportation? Answer: capable of providing a door to door service flexible enough to perform “just-in-time” delivery for higher-value / lower-volume cargo over relatively short distance Intense competition ? Rail transportation what are the most important characteristics of rail transportation? Answer: offers cost-effective transport over long distances good for cargos with high volume and low value Consumes less energy ? Waterway transportation Waterway transportation includes maritime transportation and river transportation. The most important characteristics of waterway transportation include: big capacity, good for large quantity of cargos connects ports from different continents the cleanest among all transportation modes ? Air transportation The most important characteristics of air transportation include: It offer rapid, flexible delivery expensive compared to the charges of land and ocean freight mainly for valuable or perishable goods air freight services tended to be unreliable ? Pipelines transportation The most important characteristics of pipeline transportation include: designed for a specific purpose only, to carry one commodity from a location to another effective in transporting large quantities of products link isolated areas of production with major centers of refinin