SMART CM (SMART Container Chain Management), a project co-funded by the European Commission, is geared towards advanced technology research and applications in order to overhaul the whole door-to-door container transport chain. The project is in an urgent response to demand from key players along the logistics supply chain to make trade and transport more efficient, secure, visible and competitive not only in the EU but across the world in a global intermodal context.

The SMART-CM platform will allow:

• Interoperable and seamless data exchanges among all the parties of the chain, irrespective of current or future data capture technologies while complying with commercial data exchange rules;
• Interfaces with existing service platforms for container management;
• B2B and B2A applications compliant with international customs-secure and interoperable data communications;
• New B2B and B2A services for adding efficiency to chain visibility and player cooperation;
• Innovative solutions and advanced application prototypes in global container management, such as dynamic rescheduling of container transportation, thanks to innovative concepts like “The Internet of Things”;
• Analysis of standards, legal, market and business operations and future logistics approaches to door-to-door container chains with dissemination of the findings among the partners.

www.smart-cm.eu