The UNCTAD/ICC Rules are available to international trade for world-wide application and will be acceptable to the international banking community being fully compatible with the latest revision of the ICC Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP) which will become available in the near future. However, the Rules only cover a part of the customary contents of an multimodal transport contract. Thus, an MTO wishing to use the Rules as a basis for his multimodal transport contract would have to add other clauses dealing with matters such as: optional stowage, routeing, freight and charges, liens, both-to-blame collision, general average,.
