The article is devoted to the forwarding contract and transport contract. Under a forwarding contract, the forwarding agent undertakes in their own name to arrange carriage of goods for the sender at the sender's expense from one designated place to another designated place, and the sender undertakes to pay the forwarding agent a fee. The forwarding agent is entitled to demand that there is a writen forwarding order, if the contract is not in writing. The paper describes the contractual relations in the freight transport under the new civil code. It deals with the obligations of the contracting parties in accordance with the national rules and in accordance with international conventions. Attention is paid to the interpretation of both the bill of lading and the consignment note.