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.

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Intermodal transportation refers to the use of more than one mode of transport to move goods from origin to destination, as described in the scenario where shipping containers are moved by ship, rail, and then ship again.

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