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Cisco: Inching Us Towards True Covergence
Cisco acquires Scientific Atlanta, with the hope of combining
the various home networks: video, data, voice, audio. In one
stroke, Cisco has positioned itself at the pinnacle of the
Network Convergence debate.
Only two companies had a...
he Top 10 Strategies for the Positioning of Success
Many businesses of today are often driven to compete striclty on price, quality, and features of their products and services. Companies who prosper over the long term don't simply offer the best deals, the best quality, or the most impressive bells...
Strategic and operational Controlling - Early Recognition of Crisis
Assistance in good and in bad times - some enterprises are in a crisis without knowing it. Often it is only noted that something must happen, when customers move away, loans are cancelled, suppliers threaten the business with stop of delivery ...
The Green-Eyed Capitalist
Conservative sociologists self-servingly marvel at the peaceful proximity of abject poverty and ostentatious affluence in American - or, for that matter, Western - cities. Devastating riots do erupt, but these are reactions either to perceived...
Tips for Launching Your Own Business
This November marks my two-year anniversary of starting my own human resources consulting business. As I look back on the years, I am amazed at what I accomplished and learned. If you are thinking about starting a business, read on!
I always...
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Freighting Around the World
Freight denotes goods that are to be transported from one place
to another by a commercial carrier. Carriers that deliver these
goods are usually called freight forwarders.
These freight forwarders specialize in moving large quantities
of goods over large distances, and may use their own fleet of
vehicles or hire service providers of transportation.
In today's busy world we often take for granted the fact that
goods can pretty much be shipped to and from any part of the
world with great efficiency and speed. It wasn't too long ago
when transporting cargo to other countries would normally take a
couple of months before they reached their destination.
Today, when needed, large amounts of freight can be transported
in as little as a few hours. That truly is a long ways off from
the time our parents had to wait months and months for their
deliveries.
Modes of Transportation
The efficiency of today's freight service depends on the
technological advances to the industry of transportation. In the
past century, the development of high-speed, high-load
transportation has been dizzying.
These innovations have made the today's world a smaller place to
live in. Because of these transportation modes, there is no
place on earth that is too far to deliver to.
Freight forwarders rely on what is called intermodal
transportation. This means that the freight they carry does not
go on only one type of transportation. The freight may hop on
ships to reach a different countries, and then get ferried to a
distant location, then trucked to a receiving station.
Popular and Animal Transportation
In the early days, the only means of transporting huge amount of
goods was through the use slaves and slave animals.
The caravans that crisscrossed the Middle Eastern deserts and
the merchants that traveled over the silk road in Asia all bore
trade goods that took as long as half a year to deliver. This
accounted for the
extreme price of their goods.
The Great Pyramids in Egypt were not built using materials
delivered by freight companies such as FedEx (as opposed to the
tongue-in-cheek advertisement that company produced). The
ancient slave drivers used slave power to transport the
materials needed for the pyramids from the quarry to the site.
Maritime Transporation
As the science of shipbuilding and navigation increased, man
started to consider ships as a viable means to transport large
quantities of foodstuffs to famine struck countries. Grain ships
used to ply the European trade routes. Cargos of spice and
exotic jewelry from the East made the empires of Spain and
Portugal exceedingly rich.
As the development of ironclad vessels came along, freight
forwarding as a business began to emerge. These ships could
carry tremendous amounts of freight across vast bodies of water.
Land Transportation
Railway transportation was the pioneer of freight
transportation. The fact that the term freight train is
prevalent says something of the important role railways had in
the transportation business.
Although railways were acceptably fast, they were limited to
areas that had railways. It would be a few more decades before
faster, more flexible means of transportation were available.
Trucks and trucking companies are the most versatile of all
freight modes. As long as a location has roads, it is within the
scope of the trucking business.
Air Transportation
During World War II, aircraft were capable of delivering tons
and tons of cargo to battlefields. Today, this technology lives
on to improve the freight forwarding business. Air
Transportation is fastest means to deliver freight from country
to country.
About the author:
James Monahan is the owner and Senior Editor of FreightSpot.com and writes
expert articles about freight.
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