What is the cheapest way to move large amounts of trade goods to orbit?

Given a world with similar size and atmospheric composition to Earth that has a commodity export, be it grain or oil etc, that has trade with other planets, what would be best way to orbit massive amounts of goods at the lowest per-unit cost.

My goal is the separate the technology that drives ships between planets vs the ground to orbit technology, similarly to how modern Earth shipping ports work (with trucks or trains bringing containers to large ocean going vessels), as opposed to the Star Wars/Star Trek method of handwaving everything as part of the ships' functionality.

Any science based sci-fi method is allowed as long as it keeps the goods in their regular form"”i.e., no teleportation.

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