That could be in a factory, transporting boxes.
A "modular" prefab house is constructed in sections in a factory, transported on flatbed trucks and joined together at the building site.
Earlier bridge building techniques involved fabricating the main cables at a factory, transporting them to the bridge site, and then stretching the heavy cables over the gap to erect them over the bridge.
But for companies that use a lot of energy to run factories, transport goods or simply as a raw input, this trend is welcome news.
With growth comes not just new factories, transport and commerce, all power-hungry sectors of any economy, but the individual wealth to put more and bigger cars on the road, to build bigger homes that need heating, cooling and lighting, and to acquire the kilowatt-consuming gadgets of modernity, from electric rice cookers to PCs.
Andrei Panov, the deputy governor of the Kuzbass region, said coal-burning factories, transport-related pollution and unspecified businesses were possible causes of black snow.
I also pay a share of the cost of transporting the tomatoes from the field to the processor, for transporting the material for the cans and labels to the factory, for transporting the waste products to the dump — and on and on.
Factories and transport networks are operating at close to capacity.
Along with its lacemaking factories, passenger transport has long been the city's biggest employer.
"Imports, exports, factories, firms, transport – everything is frozen," said Vasilis Korkidis, who heads the national Confederation of Hellenic Commerce.
