Economic and technical characteristics of various modes of transportation in modern logistics

The main logistics channels stipulated in China are: pipeline transportation, road transportation, railway transportation, air transportation, river transportation, sea transportation and multimodal transport between international regions. Specific features: 1. Pipeline transportation costs are high, and it is mostly used for national construction, such as transporting oil from the west to the east (which is of little commercial value to enterprises). 2. Road transportation is a flexible "point-to-point" transportation with low cost, small traffic volume, slow speed, poor safety factor and low continuity. 3. The railway transportation cost is higher, the transportation speed is faster, the safety factor is higher and the continuity is higher. 4. The cost of air transportation is high, the transportation volume is small (mostly continuation or valuables), the speed is high, the safety factor is high, and the continuity is low. 5. The shipping cost is lower, the transportation volume is larger and the speed is slower. Low safety factor, poor continuity and inflexibility. 6. The cost of international multimodal transport is optimal. Large transportation volume, high speed and flexibility, suitable for all kinds of logistics modes, depending on the nature of goods. Most of them adopt the mode of transportation of international trade.