About the editors -- Introduction: cases, structures and prospects / Anthony Beresford, Cardiff Business School, UK, Stephen Pettit, Cardiff Business School, UK -- Trade and the transport environment -- Demand, supply and freight rates : the shipping of global trade / Hassiba Benamara, UNCTAD, Switzerland / Jan Hoffmann, UNCTAD, Switzerland, Frida Youssef, UNCTAD, Switzerland -- Trade and customs procedures in international freight transport : requirements, issues and trends / Andrew Grainger, Nottingham University Business School, UK -- International freight transport in practice -- Multimodal transport solutions for grain exports from Kazakhstan / Timur Bimaganbetov, Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development, Republic of Kazakhstan, Anthony Beresford, Cardiff Business School, UK / Stephen Pettit, Cardiff Business School, UK -- The transport of oil and gas / Hance D Smith, Cardiff University, UK, Azmath Jaleel, Cardiff University, UK -- Global container transport / Rolf Neise, International School of Management, Germany -- Car shipping / Paul Nieuwenhuis, Cardiff Business School, UK -- Trading regions -- International freight logistics in Southeast Asia : the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand growth triangle / Ruth Banomyong, Thammasat University, Thailand -- North America's evolving international freight transport: challenges and responses / Mike Ircha, University of New Brunswick, Canada -- International freight transport in South America : the case of Colombia / David B Grant, PhD, Hull University Business School, UK, Rodrigo Britto, PhD, Universidad de los Andes School of Management (UASM), Republic of Colombia, Juan Pablo Soto, PhD, Universidad de los Andes School of Management (UASM), Republic of Colombia, Marcus Thiell, PhD, Universidad de los Andes School of Management (UASM), Republic of Colombia -- International freight transport in southern Africa / Christopher Savage, University of Huddersfield, UK -- Freight transport in Korea and Taiwan / Su-Han Woo, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Po-Lin Lai, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Doori Kim, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Jungeun Kim, Chung-Ang University, South Korea -- Challenging environments and transport futures -- Overcoming international freight transport challenges in a disaster response context / eter Tatham, Griffith Business School, Gold Coast, Australia, Gyöngyi Kovacs, Hanken School of Economics, Finland -- Transport futures : reconciling the on-demand economy with global production chains / Peter Wells, Cardiff Business School, UK -- Index.