But air transport could not move such bulk goods as timber and minerals.
Fully 65% of traffic is in bulk goods such as oil, grain and coal.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping rates for bulk goods, has foundered.
Like other co-ops, Elm City specializes in bulk goods, mostly organic.
Thailand does not have much in the way of bulk goods that need to be transported by rail.
But, at the same time, trade in food and other bulk goods was matched by long-distance commerce in luxuries.
A few weeks ago, Mrs. Holloway went to Aldi, a grocery store that specializes in generic bulk goods.
His father worked for Boeing and then a power company, while his mother sold bulk goods out of their garage.
Rail and road transport has become important for moving passengers within individual states and for transporting bulk goods over longer distances.
Costco, the retail megastore that sells bulk goods at discounted prices, has revisited plans to build a supermarket at the former site of the 14th Street Armory.
As international trade has increased over the last several decades, cargo ships have grown bigger -- and larger ships moves bulk goods more cheaply than small freighters.
