A Freighter Loaded with 40-Foot Shipping Containers Leaves a Port

question 52

Multiple Choice

A freighter loaded with 40-foot shipping containers leaves a port in Europe and sails to New York,where the containers are transferred to railroad cars and transported to the west coast.At the port of San Francisco,the containers are loaded onto another freighter bound for Japan.The term that best describes this situation is:

• A)intermodal transportation.
• B)inventory management.
• C)greenfield investment.
• D)hypermarketing.
• E)containerization.