B) Answer the following questions to the text

1. What are the advantages of rail transportation? 2. What do these figures stand for: 100 mln tones, £30 billion, and 30%. 3. What modes of transport can multimodal transport include? 4. Name some advantages of multimodal transport regarding money saving. 5. What types of multimodal transport involving rail transport are mentioned in the text?
6. Choose the combination of modes of transportation for delivering the consignment from Bombay to Kharkiv. Use the schemes mentioned in the text.

Exercise 12 a) Here is an extract from a manual providing rail loading instructions. Complete the sentences with words from the box.

carefully ▪ attention ▪ overhanging ▪ sure ▪ place ▪ examine ▪ secure

instructions ▪ fit ▪ distribute ▪ exceeded ▪ diagonally

1. … vehicle carefully. 2. Do not place items … across the wagon.
3. When loading is complete, ensure that it fully complies with the … given in our Rail Instruction Manual. 4. Examine load carefully and make … it is undamaged and suitable for loading. 5. … longer, heavier pieces on the bottom of the load. 6. Make sure that load is …. 7. Ensure vehicle is … to be loaded. 8. Strap … loads. 9. When checking the vehicle, give special … to door securing mechanisms. 10. Examine vehicle and load … after loading. 11. … load as evenly as possible and make sure wheels are evenly loaded. 12. Check whether vehicle capacity has not been ….