BTT

BTT digitizes container handling with e-CMR

BTT Multimodal Container Solutions offers sustainable container logistics, with full-service solutions for container handling and transport, nationally and internationally. With its own barge and rail terminals in Tilburg, Eindhoven and Bergen op Zoom, dozens of connections to and from Rotterdam, Antwerp, Poland and China are maintained every week.

The introduction of e-CMR was a long-cherished wish of Sjoerd de Roover, business engineering & IT manager. ‘E-CMR has been on my radar since 2019. As a multimodal service provider, we have to deal with a lot of paperwork. That is outdated, but is deeply rooted in the operation. So you can’t just change that.’

Collect + Go understands this. They align their solutions with our processes. This makes the transition to paperless working clear. We recently started to use Syncreon, one of our customers with a lot of administrative handling.

Flexible drawing processes

Collect + Go’s drawing processes can be easily integrated into daily practice. This is important because there are different transfer moments in container transport. We place the container at the customer’s loading lock, but our drivers do not open the container. The signature for receipt will then follow at a later time. In that case, the customer signs via the web portal. This means that the container is reported empty to us. This immediately generates a trigger that the container is empty and can be retrieved. In addition, it is also possible to report the container empty during loading and unloading activities.

Security and compliance

In addition to sustainability, data security and compliance with laws and regulations are very important. De Roover: “We collect goods from customers and in the port of Rotterdam. Collect + Go already works with parties that add extra security to the process for collecting and returning containers. This is important, because it allows us to prepare for smart integrations that are already being used on other terminals. With the e-CMR recognition from the Benelux authorities, we are compliant with laws and regulations. The ISO27001 certification offers comfort in the field of data security.”

Further rollout

Because e-CMR provides important benefits for BTT, the application of Collect + Go will be further implemented in the near future. De Roover: “e-CMR is also very interesting in the multimodal process. We have already done a first test on the Tilburg-Rzepin corridor.”

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