When Lee Iacocca was the president of Chrysler back in the 1970's he had this idea about building a car that was partially manufactured in Europe, America and Asia. The concept was to bring the best of the world's automotive knowledge together and build a car that would surpass anything on the market at the time.

After the discovery of America in 1492, overseas shipping took on a whole new dimension in the 16th Century. Ships that once traversed the Mediterranean and the coast of Africa now had to re-equip and refit for the longer voyages to the New World.

International auto shipping has been going on since the automobile was first invented back in the late 19th Century. The vision that Henry Ford had of a car in every driveway has turned into an international picture of highways packed with thousands of automobiles every day.

The term international shipping is currently used to describe any type of international transfer of goods regardless of the vessel used in the process. It was originally called international shipping because it was done exclusively by ship.

Overseas shipping is the transport of manufactured goods or agricultural products over a sea or ocean to a destination which is usually located in another country. Today it is a multi-billion dollar industry than spans the globe.

The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands is one of the most popular international moving destinations in the world. By the year 2010 it is predicted that the number of transplants and migrants will actually outnumber the native population.

International shipping of live animals falls into two categories. The first is the shipping of domestic animals, or pets, to a destination in another country. The second is the shipping of wild animals to zoos or scientific laboratories.

There was a time when international moving between the United States and Canada was a simple matter of loading up a truck and crossing the border by showing your driver's license to the border patrol agent. Things are not that simple anymore.

The Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Arkansas River are the three elements of a trade route that has made international auto shipping the billion dollar industry that it is today. With manufacturing plants located on the banks of all three of these mighty waterways and the assembly lines of Detroit sitting on the shores of Lake Michigan,

Isaac Asimov wrote a story in 1942 titled Foundation that introduced a fictional science known as Psycho-History and a character whose name was Dr. Hari Seldon. Dr. Seldon was a mathematician who claimed that he could predict the history of mankind by analyzing past human behavior and converting it into mathematical equations to determine what would come next.