law: Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 
  7. Issue of multimodal transport document 
  (1) Where the consignor and the multimodal
  
  transport operator have entered into a contract for the multimodal
  
  transportation and the multimodal transport operator has taken charge of the
  
  goods, he shall, at the option of the consignor, issue a negotiable or
  
  non-negotiable multimodal transport document.
  (2) The multimodal transport document shall be
  
  signed by the multimodal transport operator or by a person duly authorized by
  
  him.