The Fraunhofer Institute IML (for material flow, logistics and freight forwarding) has developed and is slowly deploying a special application for managing, among other things, pallets in the cloud. This innovative platform is supposed to facilitate the management of load carriers between the parties to a transaction and simplify their settlement.
The European Commission and EU bodies have recognized packaging as one of the strategic points in the transportation system. This is a new trend, because until now, producers of cartons, films and the like were treated as an insignificant part of a large industry.
