These materials can be easily applied inexpensively to different surfaces and have been implemented widely as security inks to protect high-value merchandise, government documents and banknotes9.
In Europe and North America, where highway competition demands faster rail movement of time-sensitive freight, cars for such traffic as perishable goods, high-value merchandise, and containers are designed to run at 120 km (75 miles) per hour.
Chan says most of AfterShip's users are smaller merchants who sell high value merchandise like electronics, custom-made items or even gold bars.
It even went a step further and envisioned offering a "trust" score to retail stores that would flag which individuals walking around its store could be trusted with high value merchandise and which security should follow closely.
The term carload in the North American context applies to those movements undertaken in separate rail vehicles which can include box cars of varying dimensions which are used primarily for higher value merchandise traffic and can be moved in single units or as blocks of vehicles to be assembled into train formations for long haul movements.
As these trains are mostly shipping high value added merchandise, it is no coincidence that most of them originate from cities like Chengdu, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, and Suzhou, which all have very large and kinetic high-tech zones.
Deliveries of such high-value products made Germany the world's largest merchandise exporter six years running through 2008, when it exported 993 billion euros ($1.4 trillion) worth of goods, just edging out China.
He assured the buyers that, freed of certain merchandising tasks, they could take on more high-value work that humans can still do better than machines, such as understanding younger customers' desires and determining apparel manufacturers' future plans.
With more than 30 years in the retail and wholesale industry, Marc Joseph is the founder of DollarDays International, a premiere online wholesaler that helps small businesses compete against larger enterprises by offering more than 260,000 high-value goods at closeout and wholesale prices close to those at which large chains purchase the same merchandise.
But there is a boom, too, in high-value services (architecture, engineering and finance) and a growing "app economy", nurtured by Facebook, Apple and Google, which employs more than 300,000 people; its games, virtual merchandise and so on sell effortlessly across borders.
The BRZ is high-value automotive entertainment.
