Contents: 1. International trade and transportation: an introduction / Bruce A. Blonigen and Wesley W. Wilson -- Part I -- Modeling and estimating international trade patterns -- 2. Gravity, distance, and international trade / Scott L. Baier, Amanda Kerr and Yoto V. Yotov -- 3. International trade data and empirical patterns / Peter H. Egger and Yvonne Wolfmayr -- 4. Gravity models in air transport research: a survey and an application / Anming Zhang, Faqin Lin and Yahua Zhang -- Part II -- Transport costs and international trade -- 5. Trade costs and international trade flows: methodologies, data, and empirical evidence / Michael Moore -- 6. Transport costs, trade, and geographic concentration: evidence from Canada / Kristian Behrens and W. Mark Brown -- 7. Offshoring and transport costs / Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley -- 8. Transportation costs and trade for differentiated agricultural products / Dragan Miljkovic -- 9. Environmental issues in international trade and transportation / James J. Corbett and James J. Winebrake -- ParT III -- Agents of international trade -- 10. Firms in international trade / Federico J. Díez, Jesse Mora and Alan C. Spearot -- 11. Trade costs and the role of international trade intermediaries / Bernardo S. Blum, Sebastian Claro, and Ignatius J. Horstmann -- 12. Transportation cost and the geography of foreign investment / Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen -- Part IV -- Logistics -- 13. Trade logistics and seaborne transportation / Wayne K. Talley and Sara Russell Riggs -- 14. Transportation and trade interactions: a trade facilitation perspective / Jerónimo Carballo, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus -- Part V -- Transport infrastructure for international trade -- 15. DEA and transportation efficiency / Kevin Hyosoo Park and Young-Tae Chang -- 16. Trade costs, trade, and port efficiency / Bruce A. Blonigen and Wesley W. Wilson -- 17. Getting port governance right / Peter de Langen and Periklis Saragiotis -- 18. Vessel size, investments and trade / Lixian Fan, Xinlu Li, Sijie Zhang and Zimeng Zhang -- Part IV -- Transport networks in international trade -- 19. Trade and transport modes: the search for global connectivity through transport networks / Theo Notteboom -- 20. Benefits, challenges and trends for regional transport connectivity in Asia / Peter O'Neill -- 21. Euro-Asian overland transport links / Miroslav N. Jovanovi?, Jelena Damnjanovi?, and Jovan Njegi? -- 22. Panama canal / William W. Wilson and Javier D. Ho -- 23. Competition and the container liner shipping industry / Hilde Meersman, Christa Sys, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander -- Index.
