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and ships, freight transportation was too unpredictable for manufacturers to take the risk that supplies from faraway places would arrive on time,
and nobody noticed,#says Gerhardt Muller, a retired professor at the U s. Merchant marine Academy and author of Intermodal Freight Transportation, an industry standard.#
and freight piling up at railroad depots and piers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.""Transmission between horses and humans seems to have been key to some epidemics
and mile-long trains tug boxcars loaded with grain to places as far away as Mexico and California.
Like the bulls are so big you can only get one in a boxcar. So Globegenius you're from Texas?
and a 2006 Freightliner truck powered by a Cummins diesel engine. The two trucks had approximately the same gross vehicle weight curb weight and payload.
and natural processes but is thought to be primarily the result of international freight transportation. The study suggests that the warming climate is allowing pests to become established in previously unsuitable regions.
He points out that the freight trains and trucks that haul mountains of agribusiness cabbages and cucumbers and whatnot around the country trounce local vans in ton-miles per gallon-the jargon of freight fuel efficiency.
A train gets 480-ton miles per gallon; the best case that Boisvert found in New york city's Union square Greenmarket got 28 ton-miles.
While some areas of the U s. have excess capacity in freight rail and rail-to-port infrastructure,
and haven't shown much leadership on freight rail and rail-to-port infrastructure that isn't shovel-ready.
This tiny little wind-powered oasis, the only gas station along a 100-mile stretch of old Route 66 in the Mojave desert of California, sits next to an active freight rail line.
and one of them had a consulting firm that talked about piggybacking where they d take the shipping container and put that on a flatcar.
I would say freight transportation is 8 to 9 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions.
INTTRA, an e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, recently put together some estimates of how much paper gets saved as a result of e-commerce.
INTTRA says that ocean freight providers alone have saved potentially 25,000 trees annually as a result of using its e-commerce network.
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