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2. An industrial process
Transporting products, moving them around in space, is a material operation that requires considerable manpower, equipment and intermediate consumption (particularly of energy). Transport modifies the physical characteristics of products (their spatio-temporal coordinates), just as manufacturing operations modify their composition or morphology. Freight transport is an industrial process (
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