The world of smart logistics is continuing to grow at a fast pace, with new technologies and innovations ensuring constant change. Since its announcement in January 2019 that it converted more than 10,000 tank containers into Smart Tanks, HOYER has confirmed it has now reached a new milestone of 20,000.
“This increase underlines the high level of demand for Smart Tanks,” said HOYER.
Its Smart Tank is the centrepiece of the company’s intelligent logistics management network, intending to safeguard a high product quality during transportation, enhance safety for people and the environment as well as provide fleet optimisation for customers.
“No customer ever reported issues regarding misdeclaration combined with our Smart logistics,” says HOYER. “The sensors of our smart technology that are fitted to the tank containers measure important parameters, such as temperature and pressure, filling level and tank container location. That information is then delivered to the Smart Portal. There is no correlation to the (mis)declaration of goods which are transported.”
However, HOYER explains its Smart Tanks offer more efficient use of the equipment and makes it possible to identify weaknesses in the logistics value chain. Combined with information and warning systems and its online portal, Smart Tank ensures optimum load monitoring and offers prospective analysis options. With the Smart Portal, customers can see the tank container’s location and whether its temperature, filling level and pressure are within predefined limits, or whether intervention is needed.
“Networked logistics services have great potential. More and more customers of HOYER from the chemical, food and gas industry have been benefiting from smart logistics and requesting our Smart Tanks and Portal,” it says.
Katerina Kerr
Tank Container Editor
