Hutchison Ports launches web-based tool to allow road hauliers to reduce costs and cut emissions
Hutchison Ports has launched a ground-breaking new web-based tool to allow road hauliers to reduce costs and cut emissions, the company said in its press release.
Boxreload helps trucking companies of all sizes to combine loads with the aim of replacing two journeys by two trucks, each with an empty leg, by one return journey (backload) with a single truck; a 'boxreload'. Boxreload focuses on cooperation between trucking companies to share certain information and enable better planning.
Boxreload, supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and co-financed by the European Union's Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) programme, is being launched in the Benelux area.
Boxreload has been developed with the support of Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Boxreload is a neutral platform which any trucking company can join. The secure structure ensures that each trucking company's sensitive customer information is kept private. Users can only cooperate with other trucking companies if they are connected as 'friends' on the Boxreload system.
Boxreload has been developed by the PARIS Optimal Transport Planning division of Hutchison Ports. PARIS has extensive experience delivering multimodal optimisation solutions for its clients which include some of the world's largest shipping lines.