Transportation provides the link between production, storage and consumption. It also adds place value to a commodity. Availability of efficient transportation methods is the backbone of twentieth century logistics because of the increasing globalization of commerce and logistics. This is likely to continue through the next few centuries. The major requirements of the transportation industry to support global logistics are cost and transit time reduction, on-time delivery, lower variability of transit time, availability of seamless transportation service through a combination of modes, minimum delay, damage and loss and the availability of other options such as storage, pick-up and delivery and so on.