Transport and Communication Test - 3

Goods have to be trans-shipped to smaller vessels at Montreal due to the presence of rapids. Rapids pose obstacles to the navigation of large oceangoing vessels, necessitating the transfer of goods to smaller vessels.

Dusseldorf is the Rhine port for the region near the Ruhr river. This indicates that Dusseldorf serves as a key port in the area for transportation and trade along the Rhine waterway.

North Atlantic sea route is popularly known as a big trunk route. It covers one-fourth of the World's foreign trade. It covers the North-Eastern USA and North-Western Europe.

The Volga River drains into the Caspian Sea, indicating the final destination of the river's flow.

Cyberspace is the electronic digital world for communication and information access over computer networks without physical movement.

Communication through satellites emerged as a new area in communication technology since the 1970s, after the USA and former USSR pioneered space research.

The Rhine is navigable for 700 km from Rotterdam, at its mouth in the Netherlands, to Basel in Switzerland.

The Big Inch pipeline transports petroleum. The Big Inch and Little Big Inch, collectively known as the Inch pipelines, are petroleum pipelines extending from Texas to New Jersey, built between 1942 and 1944.

Air transport overcomes frictions created by mountainous snow fields or inhospitable desert terrains, increasing accessibility to various regions. 

Riverways lost importance as transportation highways due to competition from railways, among other factors such as diversion of water for irrigation and poor maintenance of riverways.