"Freight container" means an article of transport equipment that is of a permanent character, strong enough to be suitable for repeated use and specially designed to transport goods by more than one mode; "Harmonisation" means the dynamic process of establishing mutually complementary policies, legislation, rules, standards, practices or systems between Member States on the basis of agreed minimum requirements; "Host country" means the Member State to which the responsibility of coordinating the transport, communications and meteorology sectors has been assigned and in whose territory the SATCC-TU is located; "Integrated transport" means a regional transportation system which integrates all modes, designates a network of defined transport corridors, emphasises connections, choices and coordination of transport services and promotes an optimal yield from the Region's transportation resources; "Intermodal transport" means the transport of goods by several modes from one point or port of origin via one or more interface points to a final point or port, where one of the carriers organises the whole transport without assuming liability for the entire transport from origin to final destination; "Land-locked state" means a state which has no sea-coast; "Member State" means a state party to the Treaty; "Multimodal transport" means the carriage of goods by at least two different modes of transport on the basis of a multimodal transport contract from a place in one country at which goods are taken in charge by the multimodal transport operator to a place designated for delivery situated in a different country but excluding the picking up and delivery of goods carried out in the performance of a unimodal transport contract, as defined in such contract; "multimodal transport contract" means a contract whereby a multimodal transport operator undertakes, against payment of freight, to perform or procure the performance of international multimodal transport; "multimodal transport operator" means any person who, on his/her own behalf or through another person acting on his/her behalf, concludes a multimodal transport contract and who acts as a principal, not as an agent or on behalf of the consignor or of the carriers participating in the multimodal transport operations. and who assumes responsibility for the performance of the contract; "National" means pertaining to any matter peculiar to or characteristic of an individual Member State;