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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The situation described involves the use of multiple modes of transportation (freighter, railroad car, and another freighter) to move the containers from Europe to Japan. This is known as intermodal transportation, which involves the coordinated use of different transportation modes to move goods from origin to destination. Inventory management, greenfield investment, and hypermarketing do not accurately describe this situation. Containerization is related to the use of standardized containers for shipping, but it does not capture the multi-modal aspect of this scenario.

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