FIATA Bill of Lading

The FIATA Bill of Lading (FBL) is a negotiable multimodal transport document issued by a freight forwarder acting as a multimodal transport operator, taking responsibility for the goods from receipt to delivery across two or more transport modes. Issued in negotiable form unless marked non-negotiable, it constitutes title to the goods: the holder by endorsement is entitled to receive or transfer them. It carries the ICC logo to denote conformity with the UNCTAD/ICC Rules for Multimodal Transport Documents (ICC Publication 481), in force from 1 January 1992. Banks accept the FBL under UCP 600 as a multimodal transport document covering at least two modes.