Question

Brock's Bicycles, Inc., purchases its wheels from a Southeast Asian company. The supplier sends the goods via ship, with the Port of Los Angeles as its destination. From there the wheels are shipped via rail to Chicago, Illinois, where they are loaded onto a truck for their final destination to Brock's assembly plant on the East Coast. Brock's uses _________ shipping to transport its goods.

Answer 1

Intermodal shipping

Step-by-step explanation:

Intermodal freight shipping refers to the transportation of freight using multiple modes of transportation (for example, rail, ship, truck) without any handling of the freight itself when changing from one mode of transportation to the other.

In this example, the wheels are originally sent via ship to Los Angeles, then they are transported via rail to Illinois where they are loaded onto a truck to the East Coast.

We can see that this company uses multiple modes of transportation without any handling of the freight itself when changing transportation in LA and Illinois.

Thus, this is an example of intermodal shipping.