Digitise your CMR.
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Still working with paper CMRs? There's a better solution.
280 million CMRs cross Europe’s roads every year. Fewer than 1% are electronic.
That's not because the technology is new. The eCMR protocol has existed since 2011. It’s an adoption problem: most solutions still expect everyone in the chain to join the same platform before the document works. Enigio doesn't.
One document, with one owner at a time, that anyone downstream can read without an account or a system to join.
The freight document carries its own record. Every pick-up, hand-over and delivery writes straight into it, building the audit trail as the shipment moves.
The issuer or carrier holds control for the eCMR's full life, through every transfer of liability. It's tamper-proof, machine-readable, and yours to pull straight into your own TMS.
There's no platform to join and no rulebook to follow. Just paper’s original job, done properly.
Why paper still dominates — and what’s changing
CMRs are governed by the 1956 CMR Convention. The eCMR Protocol, added in 2011, gives electronic consignment notes equal legal standing, and more than 40 countries have now acceded, most recently Serbia in August 2026.
None of that has moved the market. Paper stays familiar despite the fraud risk, the errors and the cost, and most eCMR solutions just trade one problem for another: join the platform, or the document stops working the moment it leaves it.
Regulation is now closing that gap. From 9 July 2027, the EU’s eFTI Regulation requires every member state to accept electronic freight data. Spain has gone further, making its domestic DeCA mandatory from 5 October 2026 and checking it by QR code at the roadside.
The rules are finally catching up to what the technology has been able to do for years.
Paper based CMR solutions
Inefficient, costly and cumbersome process
Risk of errors, discrepancies, forgery and lost documents
No transport management system (TMS) integration
Costly disputes due to poor record keeping and lack of accountability and transparency
Exposed to fraud and non-compliance
Other eCMR solutions
Being forced to share business data with irrelevant parties
Need for contract negotiations and upfront agreements with new parties in the logistics chain
Costly investment in software and changing of current processes
Legal uncertainties
Risk that some or several relevant parties are not a part of the same closed platform
Why switch to electronic CMR
Accessible & interoperable
Safe and
Secure
Cost and time
efficient
Sustainable
eCMR workflow
Accessible and interoperable
Enigio's eCMRs are PDFs, so anyone who can read a PDF can read one. Each document also carries structured JSON data, which means any system can parse it automatically without needing an API.
Anyone in the trade flow can send, receive and manage them, on any platform or none. Only the issuer needs an Enigio account. After that, it's free for everyone downstream, for good.
Safe and secure
Traceability – Contains full audit trail of events within the document
Data ownership - no business or personal data shared or stored outside of the trace:original CMR document.
Transparency – process visibility throughout the transaction cycle.
Storage – digitally stored by the owner and digital back-ups possible
Protection – only the one in possession has the right to add new content, transfer possession or invalidate, no-one can manipulate what has been written.
Authenticity – Document authenticity can be verified by anyone at any time
Evidence – Current or older version of document verifiable via its evidence stored on the block chain (Public Notary)
Ditch the paper, keep the trust.
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Let’s make your trade digital, secure, and seamless.