EEC announces first pilot run with an e-CMR electronic consignment note on the Kazakhstan–Russia route

The Eurasian Economic Commission has officially announced that on 15 October 2026 the first pilot international shipment using electronic consignment notes (e-CMR) will take place on the Kazakhstan–Russia route. Under the pilot project, the paper international consignment note (CMR) is fully replaced by an electronic file.

The document is created in digital form and signed in sequence with an enhanced qualified electronic signature by the shipper, the carrier and the consignee at each stage of the route. Legally significant cross-border data exchange is provided through trusted third party network (TTP) operators. According to the source, infrastructure providers, in particular the Litoria DVCS platform, have confirmed the technical readiness of their systems for seamless B2B interaction and for ensuring data integrity between EAEU jurisdictions.

The main aim of the experiment is a practical test of direct interagency interaction between the national state information systems of Kazakhstan and Russia in real conditions, without paper duplicates at border crossings of a key transit corridor from China. Industry sources note that the stability of the process depends directly on synchronisation of the two countries' state systems, and that technical failures on the side of national electronic document interchange portals create a risk of temporary delays in digital clearance and release of cargo at the border.

It is also reported that by mid-October 2026 major electronic document interchange operators such as Tensor (SBIS) and SKB Kontur (Kontur.Diadok) had completed configuration of their logistics modules to support the e-CMR format and had released connectors for integration with shippers' corporate accounting systems, predominantly those based on 1C. At the same time, a technical barrier is noted for small carriers, which face difficulties connecting to TTP networks and configuring compatible software.