About eFTI Connect
We are digitising the document at the heart of European road freight — the consignment note.
The CMR consignment note has been the backbone of international road transport since the United Nations CMR Convention was signed in Geneva in 1956. Nearly 70 years later, an enormous share of the roughly 280 million international CMR transactions each year still moves on paper. We think the industry deserves better.
eFTI Connect was created to bring the consignment note fully into the digital age — combining the legal foundation of the eCMR with the intelligence of modern AI, in a platform that any exporter, freight forwarder or carrier can start using in minutes.
Who is behind eFTI Connect
eFTI Connect is built and operated by bitsEverywhere d.o.o. — an IT company from Novi Sad, Serbia, focused on building software for transport and logistics.
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A member of the Foundation, not just a user of the standard. bitsEverywhere d.o.o., the company behind eFTI Connect, is the Open Logistics Foundation's first member company from Serbia and works inside its Electronic Transport Documents and Track & Trace working groups and its eCMR, eDeliveryNote and Timeslot Management projects — weekly, alongside the people who write the standard, instead of reverse-engineering it from the outside afterwards.
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ISO/IEC 27001 certified operator. eFTI Connect is built and operated by bitsEverywhere d.o.o., an ISO/IEC 27001-certified company — information security is audited, not just promised.
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We understand logistics processes before we turn them into software. As graduate transport engineers with years in the IT industry, we build academic knowledge of transport into modern digital solutions — cloud-based and AI-assisted — that help the logistics sector.
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Present where the field is debated. We take part in many domestic and international scientific and professional conferences, in IT and in logistics alike, and have published a number of papers.
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More about the company. What bitsEverywhere does and how to reach us: bitseverywhere.com
bitsEverywhere d.o.o. — the company behind eFTI Connect
The first Serbian member of the Open Logistics Foundation, active in its Electronic Transport Documents and Track & Trace working groups.
Support for the platform's development
The development of eFTI Connect was supported through the Smart Logistics for Western Balkans project, under RECONOMY. RECONOMY is an inclusive and green economic development program of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation in the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkan countries.
What we stand for
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Interoperability and open standards. eFTI Connect is built on and fully compatible with the Open Logistics Foundation eCMR standard — the open-source industry standard created by 28 leading logistics and IT companies. Interoperability is a principle, not an afterthought.
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Regional by design. With support for 10 languages — Serbian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Albanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian, English and German — we are built for the real, multilingual reality of transport across the Western Balkans and the EU.
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Ready for regulation. Our name reflects our alignment with the EU's electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI) Regulation (EU) 2020/1056, which requires Member State authorities to accept electronic freight information from 9 July 2027.
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Less manual work, fewer errors. As the first AI-powered eCMR platform, we use artificial intelligence to remove manual work and error from every consignment note.
Aligned with the standards that matter
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The CMR Convention & the 2008 e-CMR Protocol — the legal basis that gives the electronic consignment note the same standing as paper (in force since 5 June 2011; 42 contracting parties as of August 2026).
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The Open Logistics Foundation eCMR standard — for interoperability across the industry.
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The EU eFTI Regulation (EU) 2020/1056 — for future-proof compliance, with supporting delegated and implementing acts adopted through 2024–2025.
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The eIDAS Regulation — for legally sound electronic signatures and seals.
The moment is now
In this region that moment has already arrived. Serbia ratified the 2008 e-CMR Protocol in July 2026, joining North Macedonia and Albania — both in April 2026 — alongside Slovenia and Hungary. The protocol has 42 contracting parties in all. On routes between ratifying countries, the electronic consignment note now carries the same legal and evidential weight as paper.
Adoption of the eCMR has reached critical mass across Europe, and the regulatory direction is clear — under the eFTI Regulation, EU Member State authorities must accept electronic freight transport information from 9 July 2027. Companies that digitise now gain an operational edge — faster invoicing, lower costs, better data — while those that wait risk friction at borders, audits and inspections. eFTI Connect exists to make that transition simple, affordable and intelligent.
eCMR feasibility study
CIS inženjering d.o.o. of Odžaci prepared it for us in June 2026 — the legal framework, the technology and the business case for digital consignment notes in Serbia and the Western Balkans.
Srpski (PDF, 7.9 MB)
English (PDF, 8.0 MB)