Freight forwarders classify transport modes—road, rail, sea, air, and multimodal combinations—by their defining characteristics: available infrastructure, cargo capacity, speed, cost structure, and suitability for specific commodity types.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_of_transport
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