Abstract: This scientific article is dedicated to the study of internationalization of transport as the prerequisites for development of the global trade. The author conducts a detailed analysis of the concept of internationalization of transport which is being actively used in domestic and foreign academic, scientific and specialized literature, due to the fact that in the modern conditions of economic development along with the evident trends of globalization of the world economy, internationalization of economic life, and regionalization of countries, a special significance gains the transportation of cargo that has achieved 15% of the world GDP by 2016. The article presents the author's original definition of the "internationalization of transport", which is being understood as a phenomenon in the world economy, inevitably resulting from the internationalization of all spheres of social reproduction (production and capital) as well as expressing the process of establishment and development of relationship between the national transportation systems, when such system of a single country acts as a part of the global transportation space.