In the intercontinental ocean transportation route between China and South America, COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers") has built a unique two-way transportation service featuring "flat rack container export + pulp import". On the outbound journey, flat rack containers are used to ship construction machinery, vehicles and other goods from China to South America to meet local demand; on the return journey, high-quality pulp from South America is loaded and transported back to China to support the supply chain of the paper-making industry.

To further improve transportation quality and safety, while enhancing the transparent management of global flat rack container assets, at the end of 2024, COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers decided to adopt BoxPlus' IBOX Dry solution(hereinafter referred to as "IBOX Dry"), a management solution for dry containers, and take the lead in promoting the intelligent deployment of its flat rack containers.

Developed by BoxPlus with dedication for the intelligent supervision of dry cargo container transportation, IBOX Dry is committed to advancing the global process of digital and intelligent deployment of dry containers and accelerating the intelligent upgrading of the container transportation industry.

The intelligent hardware of IBOX Dry  is equipped with global precise positioning and global cellular communication modules, which transmit the position and status of containers during transportation at fixed frequencies. Meanwhile, it supports flexible configuration of sensors to sensitively monitor the container's temperature, humidity, shock, door opening/closing and other conditions, thus ensuring the quality and safety of goods in time. The hardware is easy to install without damaging container facilities. It adopts a long-life replaceable battery solution and is matched with an adaptive intelligent working mode to achieve low power consumption and long-cycle operation.

In addition, the IBOX Dry solution includes a mature application platform. The platform supports custom geofencing, which not only enables easy digitalization of transportation resources such as terminals/depots, customer sites and containers, but also allows real-time grasp of the global distribution of assets, facilitating the scheduling and management of container assets. The application platform also provides visualized charts of real-time routes, temperature and humidity, as well as detailed voyage data, offering data support for container transportation management. By subscribing to notifications on the application platform, early warning emails will be sent in real time when abnormalities such as temperature/humidity fluctuations or shocks occur, providing a safety support for the goods and containers.

On the China-South America round-trip voyage, the dual empowerment of IBOX Dry's intelligent hardware and application provides comprehensive digital support for COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers, ensuring the visibility of container status and controllability of transportation quality. 

Currently, COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers has deployed  IBOX Dry in more than 7,000  sets of flat rack containers, which has significantly improved the transparency of flat rack container asset management and the timeliness of container tracking. As a pioneer in the digital and intelligent transformation of the industry, COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers is vigorously advancing the coverage rate of IBOX Dry in its flat rack containers.

With the upgraded demand for "efficiency, controllability and safety" in global logistics, more and more enterprises are laying out the digital track of dry containers. IBOX Dry will help more transportation enterprises achieve digital and intelligent upgrading and refresh transportation standards in the global logistics market.