law: Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 
  2. Definitions 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,-
  (a) "carrier" means a person who is
  
  engaged in the business of transporting for hire goods by road, rail, inland
  
  waterways or sea;
  (b) "competent authority" means any
  
  person or authority authorized by the Central Government, by notification in
  
  the Official Gazette, to perform the functions of the competent authority under
  
  this Act;
  (c) "consignee" means the person
  
  named as consignee in the multimodal transport contract;
  (d) "consignment" means the goods
  
  entrusted to a multimodal transport operator for multimodal transportation;
  (e) "consignor" means the person,
  
  named in the multimodal transport contract as consignor, by whom or on whose
  
  behalf the goods covered by such contract are entrusted to a multimodal
  
  transport operator for multimodal transportation;
  (f) "delivery" means,-
  (i) in the case of a
  
  negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to, or
  
  placing the consignment at the disposal of, the  consignee or any other
  
  person entitled to receive it;
  (ii) in the case of a
  
  non-negotiable multimodal transport document, delivering of the consignment to,
  
  or placing the consignment at the disposal of, the consignee or any person
  
  authorized by the consignee to accept delivery of the consignment on his
  
  behalf;
  (g) "endorsee" means the person in
  
  whose favor an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements,
  
  the person in whose favor the last endorsement is made;
  (h) "endorsement" means the signing
  
  by the consignee or the endorsee after adding a direction on a negotiable
  
  multimodal transport document to pass the property in the goods mentioned in
  
  such document to a specified person;
  (i)  "goods" includes-
  (I) containers,
  
  pallets or similar articles of transport used to consolidate goods; and
  (II) animals;
  (j) "mode of transport" means
  
  carriage of goods by road , rail, inland waterways or sea;
  (k) "multimodal transportation
  
  contract" means carriage of goods by two or more modes of transport from
  
  the place of acceptance of the goods in India to a place of delivery of the
  
  goods outside India;
  (l) "multimodal transport contract"
  
  means a contract entered into by the consignor and the multimodal transport
  
  operator for multimodal transportation;
  (m) "multimodal transport operator"
  
  means and person who-
  (i) concludes a
  
  multimodal transport contract on his own behalf or through another person
  
  acting on his behalf;
  (ii) acts as
  
  principal, and not as an agent either of the consignor or of the carrier
  
  participating in the multimodal transportation, and who assumes responsibility
  
  for the performance of the said contract; and
  (iii) is registered
  
  under sub-section (3) of section 4;
  (n) "negotiable multimodal transport
  
  document" means a multimodal transport document which is -
           
  
  (i) made out to order or to bearer; or
  (ii) made out to order
  
  and is transferable without   endorsement; or
  (iii) made out to
  
  bearer and is transferable without endorsement;
  (o) "non-negotiable multimodal transport
  
  document" means a multimodal transport document which indicates only one
  
  named consignee;
  (p) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made under this Act;
  (q) "registration" means
  
  registration of multimodal transport operator under sub-section (3) of section
  
  4.