This book reworks material previously contained in Parts 6 and 7 of Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Land, Sea and Air, first published by LLP in 1993 and maintained, until now, as part of the looseleaf service for that publication. It is hoped that the format now adopted will make the material easier to access. The opportunity has been taken to rewrite some of the material, in some areas substantially, in order to provide what will now be, it is hoped, a clearer account. Equally, it is intended that the overview now provided in Chapter One will enable the links between different parts of the work to become more apparent. While the previous work placed material on freight forwarding and multimodal transport in distinct parts, they are brought together here. They are naturally linked: the modern world of transport of goods draws on the skills and services of both intermediaries and operators in a movement towards increasing provision of integrated intermodal transport, as well as expanding to capture a market in valueadded services. Linked also is the use of the maritime container and other means of consolidating goods that have produced much of the motive power behind the provision of such services.