↓ Cen Workshop Agreement ↓

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.

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Cen Workshop agreement

Compliments received for SMART Container Chain Management by external reviewers

Given the large number of industrial partners and contributions from logistics and administration side, SmartCM received compliments from external reviewers. In particular the development of the neutral Platform, its Value Added Services and the Demonstrations are major achievements.

Goals of the first 18 months of this initiative have been fully achieved, which are proving the core platform functionalities and three main project concepts.

A. „Interoperable Single Window Platform‟ solution: enabling all logistics actors and customs authorities to monitor the container security status independently of the Container Security Device (CSD) technologies applied in any trade lane, no bias towards specific technology providers or towards customs or businesses.

B. „Neutral information administering organization‟: managing the neutral platform, guaranteeing data integrity along the whole process of security related container data gathering, while providing information from platform to stakeholders.

C. „Industry Added Value creation‟: the “burden” of the security regulations has been transformed to an added value for the transport industry, based on intelligent recombining data between a trusted environment – technology and neutral platform.

The demonstration ‘Green Lane’ corridors operated by the project partners DHL, K&N, COSCON involved major ports around the globe: Antwerp, Rotterdam, Singapore, Ningbo, Dubai, Nhava Sheva (India). In the very competing and fragmented environment of global container transport, big actors achieved minimum consensus on information sharing and cooperation. Strategic scenario planning and dynamic intermodal (re)routing of containers could act in the future as new technology solution.

September 21, all relevant stakeholders are welcome to join the official CEN Workshop Agreement on ‘Container Management Systems’ in Brussels.

Join SmartCM: a win-win situation for the global logistics industry and customs to forge a strong commitment for intermodal door-to-door container transport! www.smart-cm.eu