Intermodal transportation services and multimodal
transportation infrastructure will play central roles in
the logistics systems of corporations competing in
global markets in the 21st century. Four trends are
fundamentally changing the business strategies of
multinational corporations: continued economic globalization
as the driving force in trade and investment,
the growing demand for speed-to-market product
delivery, the adoption of agile manufacturing
and business practices, and the need to manage supply
chains more efficiently. Agile corporations with
international supply chains depend on intermodal
transportation services to meet customers’ demands
for rapid production and delivery