2. Find in the text antonyms to the following words.

arrival, take-off, passenger traffic, carriage, passenger train, load, exclude, loading port, prevent, domestic

3. Complete the following sentences with the necessary proposition where it is necessary using the text.

1. The management of air lanes attribution avoids … accident between planes cruising on similar air routes.

2. Rail transport is organized … two main activities: passenger traffic and freight traffic.

3. Passenger trains are made … … carriages pulled by an engine.

4. IC trains ply … cities … regular intervals.

5. Express trains call only … a few stations.

6. Through trains serve … their termini without halting on their way at all.

7. On arriving …the goods depot the truckload is discharged on the platform.

8. A port includes … a harbour, the city where it is sited, and the area which it serves: the hinterland.

9. The vessel stops … various ports of call receiving new parcels and unloading part of the cargo.

10. Passenger trains are classified according … the number of stations they halt … before the terminus.

11. Domestic shipping runs … inland waterways such as rivers, lakes and canals.

4. Fill in the gaps using the vocabulary from the text.

1. Because of some …, the … number 101 to Bangkok will leave at 3 p.m. instead of 11 a.m. as originally …

2. The job of the air-traffic controller is to … the traffic.

3. Traditional wagons of course still exist; when they are used for the transport of goods, they are called goods … (in Britain) or … (in the States).

4. One of the major problems concerning international rail transport between France and Spain is that the … of the tracks, i.e. the distance between the rails, is different.

5. If you want your goods to arrive rapidly at their place of destination, send them by an … train.

6. One important service provided by domestic shipping is the feeder service, which brings goods along inland waterways to the international …

7. … are chosen for the transportation when the goods are valuable, fragile or urgently needed.

5. Match the term with its definition.

A. Air transport

air-traffic control tower, air lane, access roads, take off, controller, land, freight plane, runway

1. The various roads linking the airport to the nearby city.

2. Plane specially designed to carry goods.

3. To leave the ground.

4. To arrive at an airport after a flight.

5. A member of the airport staff dealing with the coordination of the traffic.

6. The building from which the life of the airport is organized.

7. The strip of ground used by planes at take-off and landing.

8. A well-defined part of the sky to which a plane has to keep when following its route.

B. Railway transport

rolling stock, through train, gauge, refrigerated van, freightliner, tanker, carriages

1. The train that uses containerized units.

2. Wagons and locomotives, or engines.

3. Wagons used for the transport of passengers.

4. A goods truck especially fitted to keep the goods at a low temperature.

5. A goods truck especially fitted to carry liquid bulk consignments.

6. The distance between the rails.

7. The train that does not halt on its way.

C. Domestic and ocean shipping

liner, port of shipment, hinterland, tramp, port of call, feeder service, home port, coaster, free port, port of destination

1. The area directly served by the port.

2. The port where the vessel is bound.

3. The port where the goods are loaded on board of the vessel.

4. The port where the vessel stops on its way to its final destination.

5. The port where the ship was originally registered.

6. Service, provided by domestic shipping to bring goods along inland waterways to the international quays.

7. A vessel sailing on fixed routes that keeps to a schedule and transports general cargo.

8. A vessel transporting any cargo to any required port that does not follow a schedule.

9. A ship that sails from port to port long a coast.

10. A port governed by special customs regulations in order to boost trade.