A freight forwarder has determined that ocean and inland transit time from Tokyo, Japan to Berlin, Germany is approximately 30 to 33 days on average. Her customer finds the cost acceptable, but the transit time too slow. To move goods by air freight would take only 3 days, but the customer does not need his goods that fast and would like to have an alternative which is about halfway between these two modes of transport, time and price levels. What could the freight forwarder recommend