1) The document describes a complex flowchart involving multiple steps in an international transportation and shipping process. 2) The flowchart involves many actors performing various tasks like clearing customs, collecting documents, selecting carriers, planning and monitoring shipments, executing transportation, addressing export administration, and more. 3) The reader is advised that in practice several partial combinations of the listed process steps might occur and that they should imagine the grouping of roles under fewer actors and the grouping or skipping of some tasks.