Smart Container is Using Blockchain and IOT to Disrupt Logistics Industry

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The tremendous growth encountered by merchandise and manufacturing industries has led to the ever-growing wealth of trade in national and international markets for goods and services. Hundreds and thousands of new good and services have been introduced for our everyday needs, and they are constantly sold and circulated to customers in every corner of the world. Logistics plays a vital role in a nations economy and its a key element in the supply chain. Its plans and control the efficiency, reverse flow and storage of goods and services.

SHORTCOMINGS IN LOGISTICS INDUSTRY

The role logistics plays in the economy of a nation is very vital, but the process involved to make one shipping happen is quite cumbersome, it requires about 200+ document to be cleared for one successful shipping happen. This is quite tedious in the supply chain process, it slows the delivery process and impedes efficiency. Additionally, its a challenge for existing systems to track the progress of a container in real time. Logistics as the live wire of global trade, there is need to disrupt the way goods and services are being transported within and outside a country. Smart Container is here to disrupt the logistics industry to provide the very first autonomous container based on blockchain and IoT infrastructure which are the principal technology. Smart container proposes to eliminate tedious paper, minimize cost, shipping delays and improve efficiency.

WHAT MAKES SMART CONTAINERS STAND OUT?

Efficiency should be the first language of any logistics company, and the smart container team is at the forefront to implement an organized model to reduce the paperwork involved in our traditional logistic industry. it is creating the first independent shipping packet that happens spontaneously through the smart contracts and enables you to monitor the movement of the container virtually, and its paid for in its internal cryptocurrency "SMARC". Real-time tracking of each container is available to connected entities to enable them to know the current location of their container in the supply chain, also to enable them to take necessary action swiftly when there is a mix up in the cycle.

TECHNOLOGIES

Smart container Group is a swiss top technology container provider, which combines cutting-edge hardware(IoT Infrastructure) and software(Blockchain technology) into the logistics ecosystem, to enable entities to track and monitor their containers around the globe. This will position smart container as the largest provider of IoT air cargo containers on the market.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Smart container has two major application which is the SkyCell and the Food Guardian.

THE SKYCELL - This module is responsible for the safe movement of pharma containers(pharmaceutical products) worldwide.

FOOD GUARDIANS - this is responsible for the movement of food items from their point of manufacturing to the point of final use, and this facilitates fresher and qualitative food globally, which help enhance healthy living. additionally, it is cost effective and applies blockchain technology to create the high potential business to customers break through and secure food safety.

TOKEN INFORMATION

The smart container is built on the ethereum network and would release two coins to raise a sum of $40million. The SMARC token which would be used for profit sharing token, while the other coin LOGI token is a utility token used to accelerate transactions in the smart contract.

Token Ticker: SMARC
Token Price: 1 SMARC = $0.432
Platform: Ethereum
Hard Cap: $36,000,000
Min Investment: USD 500

MANAGEMENT

Smart Container Group is cofounded by Richard Ettl and Nico Ros who have spare headed the company to commercial success and they want to bring their success secret to Smart container. The smart container team also include over 80people. below are the names of the management team and their LinkedIn Profile link.

Nico Ros - CTO & Co-Founder || Richard Ettl - CEO & Co-Founder ||
Andreas Ernst - CFO || Carla Bünger - Business Development Manager || Thomas Taroni - Head of IT ||

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Telegram: https://t.me/smartcontainers
Website: https://smartcontainers.ch
Whitepaper: https://smartcontainers.ch/en/assets/20180502_smartcontainers_whitepaper_v2.pdf
Bitcointalk ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3058528.0
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SMARC_ICO

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