More than 2.9 million tons of grain crops were transported using Smartseeds online logistics platform in the agricultural year of 2023/2024. Transportation volumes increased by 40% compared to 2.1 million tons transported in the 2022/2023 season.
The number of registered cargo carriers increased by 25% from 14 000 to 17 000.
The geography of Smartseeds transportation is expanding: the platform operates in 26 Russian regions compared to 19 regions in the previous season. Smartseeds holds strong leadership in the Southern Federal District, and currently operates in the Central and Volga Federal Districts. The new regions include Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Oryol, Samara, Tver regions and the Republic of Tatarstan.
In the 2023/2024 agricultural season, Smartseeds continued to implement new digital tools in the largest ports of the Azov-Black Sea basin. An electronic queue service was implemented at Taman Grain Terminal Complex. As a result of the process improvement, the average time spent by motor vehicles at the terminal reduced by 30%.
The agricultural products transportation market is actively developing new digital tools, and the Smartseeds platform solves the issues facing customers and cargo carriers in the best way possible. Support for all market participants and overall responsibility for logistics is one of the key advantages of Smartseeds. Smartseeds helps customers to get direct access to the cargo carrier market and optimize logistics lead time and resources, while the carriers get a permanency with no middlemen involved and a guarantee of timely payment.
Anton Kondratov, Director of Smartseeds:
"The results of the agricultural season of 2023/2024 showed that Smartseeds maintains its leadership in the digital agricultural transportation market. Since the launch of the platform, we have been working in full compliance with the requirements of the Agribusiness Charter, which helps to eliminate such transportation risks as overloads. Currently, Smartseeds is ready to use electronic waybills to make business processes less complicated, grain transportation more transparent, and the market more civilized.”