Transportworthiness
The transportability is an established in agriculture term that is used in agriculturally produced raw materials. It is used to weigh the costs of transporting raw materials against the benefits of the same. In particular, factors that increase the cost of transport, such as the particular sensitivity of the goods being transported and the value of the goods, have an impact on the transportability.
In the case of more valuable goods, higher freight costs are accepted than in the case of less valuable goods, as the percentage of freight costs compared to the value of the raw material is only small. As an example, transport costs in the range of 2 to 8 euros for rapeseed with a market value of around 230 euros per ton represent a freight cost share of only 1 to 4 percent, while the same price for sugar beet with a market value of around 25 euros per ton over 8 to 35 percent. In this way, the transport worthiness increases with little transport effort and with more valuable goods; The transportability of rapeseed is much higher than that of beet.
The profitability of the use of agricultural biomass or agricultural waste products (e.g. liquid manure for biogas production ) can be impaired by the low transportability of these goods even at distances of just a few kilometers. As a rule, high water contents reduce the transportability.
Above all, when planning production facilities, transportability plays a major role: Goods with little transport worthiness should be produced close to their acceptance locations so that transport costs can be kept low, while goods with high transportworthiness can be transported over longer distances. Solidarity funds can be set up to compensate for disadvantages suffered by producers with greater transport distances within agricultural areas, but these can weaken the market economy incentive to set up production facilities close to producers.
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- ↑ Hubert Heilmann: Considerations on bioethanol sugar beet production. State Research Center for Agriculture and Fisheries Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Institute for Business Administration.