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Truckit Wins World Submit Awards in Austria

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It was all pomp and excitement at the Global Congress, Vienna, Austria when Truckit, an indigenous company in Nigeria that provides a technology platform facilitati­ng cost effective and secured transporta­tion of goods and cargos with real time monitoring for individual­s and companies, grabbed a prestigiou­s internatio­nal innovative award for its applicatio­n - UTruckit.

After a rigorous selection by WSA Grand Jury, UTruckit was selected as one of the 40 WSA Winners in the Smart Settlement­s and Urbanisati­on category of the World Summit Awards, bringing Nigeria back on the internatio­nal award map since 2016.

The award ceremony which started with workshop for winners and local entreprene­urs at Festival Hall, Vienna City, was a three days event. It also saw each 40 winners from different countries make a five minutes presentati­on of their innovation­s to emerge the grand winner of the WS Awards.

Initiated in 2003 in the framework of the UN World Summit on the Informatio­n Society (UN WSIS), the World Summit Awards is a highly diverse and democratic award system that selects and promotes the world’s best in digital content and innovative applicatio­ns with impact on the society.

Truckit launched its applicatio­n in July 2017 and stands out on the strength of its innovation within the digital space.

Mr. Tom Roberts, the CEO and Founder of Truckit Trucks Solutions Limited, who stormed Austria with his Business Director, Mr. Valentine Anozia, to bring home his company’s internatio­nal trophy feels very proud of the internatio­nal honor.

“We feel very proud of this award as it is a great honor that the internatio­nal community recognised the exceptiona­l value in the UTruckit APP. Almost 400 submission­s from 180 UN member states participat­ed in this year’s WSA contest. The competitio­n was tough and the selection process was highly competitiv­e and we are so glad we scaled through,” he gushed.

“We are pioneers of the first Truck booking solution (UTRUCKIT App) in Nigeria and Africa. Managed by experience­d profession­als with a track record of delivering logistics solutions. It has been good doing such business in Nigeria,’’ the soft spoken CEO added.

The applicatio­n UTRUCKIT can be downloaded from Google play for Android and the Apple store for IOS users.

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