Considerations regarding freight transport in the United States should be preceded by the statement that the vast majority of cargo is transported there in containers, which significantly simplifies the loading and transshipment process and allows for the use of modern transport technologies. Tab. 1. Transport performance by individual modes of transport in the USA (billion tkm). TOTAL TRANSPORT rail road inland waterway maritime air pipeline Source: prepared based on: North America Transportation Statistics Database 2010/stastisticsdatabase9927u.
Tab. 2. Structure of transport performance in the United States
TRANSPORT
TOTAL rail
road
inland waterway
maritime pipeline Source: prepared based on: North America Transportation Statistics Database
2010/databasestatiscics9972freight.
Article prepared based on the book by Maciej Mindur, Transport in the era of economic globalization. ITE-PIB WarsawRadom 2010.
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 2/2012
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