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The line graph illustrates the information about how many products were transported via road, water, rail and pipeline over a 28 year period (1974-2002). The unit was measured in
Million
tonnes
. Overall it can be clearly seen that there
were
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 an increase in the number of goods transported in all routes over the given period. While
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 was the most common way to transfer products,
pipeline
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 was the least common. There was a gradual increase in the number of goods sent via road in the
next
 26 years, from roughly 70
Million
tonnes
 in 1974 to 82
Million
tonnes
 in 1990, it
then
 dropped slightly before
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 back and ended at nearly 100
Million
tonnes
 in 2002. Pipeline,
however
, started at much lower at around 5
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tonnes
, it gradually climbed up to over 20
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tonnes
 by the end of the period. Goods transportation via water and rail started at more or less the same point at around 40
million
tonnes
 in 1974, both remained stable until 1978 when they diverged. Transportation via water route grew to approximately 55
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tonnes
 in the
next
 few years and remained relatively stable before surging to around 65
million
tonnes
 at the end of 2002.
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 trend was seen for the rail route which had experienced some fluctuations in the
next
 decades
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 before recovered back to just over 40
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tonnes
 in the
last
 year.
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