The train is one part of the shipment A rail corridor may offer attractive line-haul capacity while remaining difficult for a shipper to use. Goods still need to reach the terminal, wait for departure, transfer at the destination and arrive at a customer facility. For logistics businesses in BRICS markets, the opportunity is to make that full journey practical. The most valuable service may be reliable consolidation and terminal coordination rather than ownership of rolling stock. The World Bank's transport work treats connectivity as a development and service issue across transport modes. World Bank transport. This article applies that perspective to an original commercial framework for rail-linked distribution. It does not assume that a newly announced corridor is open, fully interoperable or available to every category of…