Transport and Trade
1.
Transport is one of the aids to trade. By moving goods from places where they
are plentiful to places where they are scarce, transport adds to their value.
The more easily goods can be brought over the distance that separates producer
and consumer, the better for trade. When there were no railways, no good roads,
no canals, and only small sailing ships, trade was on a small scale.
2. The great advances made in transport during the last two hundred years
were accompanied by a big in crease in trade. Bigger and faster ships enabled a
trade in meat to develop between Britain and New Zealand, for instance. Quicker
transport makes possible mass-production and big business, drawing supplies
from, and selling goods to, all parts of the global. Big factories could not
exist without tr
