pipeline transport

基本解释

There are five basic modes of transportation. They are water transport, rail transport, truck transport, air transport and pipeline transport.
基本运输方式有五种，他们是水陆运输、铁路运输、汽车运输、航空运输和管道运输。
The railway passage which cannot be replaced by ocean shipping, air transportation, highway traffic and pipeline transport, should be planned immediately and implemented timely.
铁路通道非海运、航空运输、公路运输、管道运输所能替代，应及早规划、适时实施。
Main responsibilities include policy development to increase the competitiveness of transit business including ports railways road and oil pipeline transport.
主要职责是制定政策，以提高运输业务（包括港口、铁路、公路和石油管道运输）的竞争力；

The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."
It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

First, rail has been proven much more dangerous than pipeline transport.
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The drawback: It is considerably more expensive than pipeline transport.
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