Deck 13: International Land and Multi-Modal Transportation

Question 1

Most European freight is transported by ISO boxes on railroad cars.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Switzerland prohibits trucking through the Alps,forcing trucks to "piggy-back" on trains.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

North American barges tend to be larger than European barges.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Twenty-foot containers are 6.1 meters.

Question 5

Like the United States,Australia has a lot of railroad capability to carry truck trailers across the country.

Question 6

The shipping container was developed in 1970 by Marshall McLuan.

Question 7

Cargo going from the Far East to Europe can cross the North American continent via a land bridge.

Question 8

It is possible that some ocean freight traffic will be replaced by rail service between East Asia and Europe.

Question 9

The freight forwarding business is concentrated into a small number of very large companies.

Question 10

Double-stacking of containers on railroad cars is the standard practice in both North America and Europe.

Question 11

Extended length containers are designed to hold cargo that does not fit in a 40-foot container.

Question 12

Cargo that requires specific arrangements to be transported,because it exceeds weight and dimensional limits of traditional cargo,is called "project cargo."

Question 13

Special containers often are forced to return empty.

Question 14

Liquid-bulk containers cannot be stacked with traditional containers.

Question 15

Pipelines can be used to transport coal.

Question 16

Aircraft containers are used to aggregate small individual packages rather than to form a whole shipment.

Question 17

Heightened inspection levels have delayed border crossings worldwide.

Question 18

The Rotterdam Rules do not address the issues of cargo liability for cargo transported by land.

Question 19

FAST is a European program that facilitates border crossings for trucks carrying cargo between Europe and the rest of the world.

Question 20

Railroad freight transport in the United States is a dying industry.

Question 21

Much trade at the United States-Mexico border is handled

A) by ocean.
B) DAF.
C) involving trucks not regulated by weight, length, and other equipment standards.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 22

The term "project cargo" refers to cargo

A) that is oversize and cannot fit in a container.
B) that is outside of the normal realm of what shipping companies handle in terms of weight, size, or destination.
C) that weighs more than 100 metric tonnes and/or measures more than 100 cubic meters.
D) that requires special handling, such as refrigeration or atmospheric control.
E) None of the above

Question 23

Efforts to develop a fairly seamless European freight rail system have been resisted by the country of ____________________.

Question 24

Malcom McLean devised the container system and implemented it in

A) 1966.
B) 1956.
C) 1946.
D) 1976.
E) None of the above

Question 25

In 2007,U.S.railroads had a market share of _____ of all long-distance ton miles shipped.

A) 40 percent
B) 35 percent
C) 22 percent
D) 12 percent
E) None of the above

Question 26

Trucking,from a North American perspective,is

A) domestic.
B) heavy between the United States and Canada.
C) involved in some trade across the U.S.-Mexico border.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 27

In the European Union,trucking is often delayed by

A) border controls.
B) grossly overloaded trucks.
C) social protests.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 28

The biggest challenge to international trucking in Europe is the myriad of ____________________ that are present.

Question 29

A high cube container is _____ feet tall.

A) 16
B) 14
C) 12.5
D) 11
E) None of the above

Question 30

Companies involved in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT)have been given expedited Customs clearance at border crossings,through the use of

A) Free and Secure Trade (FAST) lanes.
B) Secure and Safe Speedy (SASSY) lanes.
C) Security of Free Trade (SOFT) lanes.
D) Cleared Transportation (CT) lanes.
E) None of the above

Question 31

Unlike the United States,European railroads focus more on ____________________ traffic than freight.

Question 32

The European Community has recently introduced the concept of _____ that run trains straight through from major ports to cities such as Milan and Vienna without changing locomotives and crews at each border.

A) freight corridors
B) intermodal operations
C) Bullet Trains
D) land bridges
E) None of the above

Question 33

Intermodal has become popular because

A) it offers "one-stop" shopping for shippers.
B) it means shippers do not have to worry about making changes between transport modes.
C) it means ocean shipping companies offer transportation in modes other than in their core competency.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 34

Trucks carrying international cargo tend to be

A) semi-trucks.
B) identical from country to country.
C) free of regulations in the foreign country they enter.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 35

As freight moves from mode to mode in intermodal travel,liability limits

A) are unchanged.
B) change from mode to mode.
C) are established by the carrier.
D) are established by the carrier's freight agent.
E) None of the above

Question 36

Overloaded trucks are common in ____________________ and some parts of Asia.

Question 37

In Europe,some trucking companies register their vehicles in other countries in order to avoid ____________________.

Question 38

Much of the crude oil transported internationally travels by oil tankers (ships)and by

A) trucks.
B) pipelines.
C) trains.
D) slurry lines.
E) None of the above

Question 39

Not including intermodal shipments,the three main traditional areas of the U.S.railroad freight business have been in the areas of

A) high-end electronics, cut flowers, and time-sensitive parcels.
B) packaged consumer goods, computers, and gasoline.
C) bulk freight, break-bulk freight in boxcars, and automobiles.
D) mobile homes, fast mail, and gravel.
E) None of the above

Question 40

The biggest problem in international trucking in Europe is/are

A) variance in the value of the euro.
B) different regulations from country to country.
C) border controls.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 41

Europeans have attempted to upgrade their freight railroad systems but they are slowed by bloated ____________________.

Question 42

Although there are some standardization attempts,most air freight ____________________ are designed to fit a specific aircraft.

Question 43

A ____________________ is the idea that cargo traveling on ocean liners can cross a land obstacle by being unloaded in one port,transferred to a train,carried across the land area by rail,and reloaded onto another ship.

Question 44

Cargo of exceptional size and/or weight is called ____________________.

Question 45

Cargo that cannot fit through the doors of a regular container is shipped in ____________________ containers.

Question 46

A transportation system using more than one mode but which operates under a single bill of lading is called ____________________.

Question 47

River barges mostly carry ____________________ cargo.

Question 48

Container ship capacity is measured in ____________________.