There are millions of miles of pipeline that carry billions of gallons of product to far-flung markets.

The community declined as cars and trucks began carrying trade to larger markets and as young people departed for college or city jobs.

This grand rivalry has begun with an intense competition for control over pipeline routes that will carry Caspian oil to foreign markets.

The line fulfilled its intended purpose to carry timber to markets further afield, with large quantities railed in the branch's early years.

Each of the proposed lines is intended to carry about half that volume - 700 million cubic feet a day - to markets in the Northeast.

Railyards are being expanded and barge links are being created to carry the cargo to distant markets.

This is also where early towns developed, linked by the steamboats that carried commercial products and crops to markets.

Connecting Northfield and Minneapolis, the line carried agricultural produce from rural Dakota County to urban markets.

In return, barges have been carrying Argentine wheat to markets up river.

The fruit are carried to nearby markets by human porters or, increasingly, by truck, but not for long distances because they bruise easily.