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MODES OF TRANSPORTATION - Coggle Diagram
MODES OF TRANSPORTATION
Air
Urgent, perishable goods or high value are transported by air.
Advantages
High speed
Fast service
Reduce damage risk
Disadvantages
Limit weight and space
High cost
Risky
Sea
For big volumes for international traffic
Advantages
For heavy and bulky goods
For products with long lead times
Low cost
Disadvantages
Low speed
Difficulty in monitoring the exact location
Risky
Road
The most common mode of transport and it is used at least somewhere in almost all suply chain
Advantages
Easy to monitor location of goods
Door to door service
Flexibility of schedules and volumes
Disadvantages
For shorter distance
Dependence on fuel price
Vulnerable to congestion and traffic delays
Rail
For heavy and large loads over long journeys
Advantages
Safety
Cheap
Suitable for bulky goods
Disadvantages
Not suitable for perishable and fragile items
Not suitable for shorter distance
Inflexible
Pipeline
The main uses of pipelines are oil and gas together with the utilities of water and sewage
Advantages
Moving large quantities over long distances
Cheapest way of moving liqiuds
Local networks can add flexibility
Disadvantages
Being slow
Inflexible
Only carrying large volumes of certain types of fluid