The very first eFTI annual conference was organized at the Permanent Representation of Finland to the EU in Brussels on October 17 2024. Altogether 80 participants followed the conference on site and more than 200 via remote connection. During the conference we heard interesting presentations from EU Commision representatives, authorities, companies, associations and eFTI4EU project participants. The recording is published in youtube and the official eFTI4EU project press release and presentations can be read from here.
So we can proudly say that based on the number of participants and all fruitful discussions, the whole event was a great success and there was definitely demand for such an event. Maybe we need a new event already before next summer, where we deep dive even more on economic operator opportunities, challenges and benefits.
The discussions also pointed out that now, when eFTI regulation is becoming clearer, economic operators are also interested to understand how it affects them and how they can utilize it in their own business processes. It is clear that eFTI is not solving all the issues, but will be an interesting building block to build on.
However, we need to wait a few months more, since the eFTI platform specifications are expected to be out early 2025 and it is a very interesting topic for all eFTI platform developers and logistics companies. Also for Vedia this is interesting, since Vedia has been very active with eFTI platform development via proof of concepts and eCMR eFTI joint development in MyeFTI collaboration. In addition, Vedia is also beneficiary in eFTI4ALL project, which adds new Member States ti eFTI development and extend eFTI implementation also to economic operator side. Together eFTI4EU and eFTI4ALL projects will play a key role in EU eFTI development.
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Lasse Nykänen
Project Director
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