eBOLs

FreightTech Friday: p44 offers eBOLs for all LTL shipments

Visibility provider project44 announced it has implemented automatic electronic bills of lading for all of its less-than-truckload pickup requests as the LTL industry looks to expedite industry adoption of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association’s (NMFTA’s) eBOL standards.

“We are proud to contribute and continue to lead LTL API innovation, which includes eBOL,” Jett McCandless, founder and chief executive officer, told FreightWaves in an email. “We are thankful for the many carriers,...

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CargoX goes live with HMM eBOL partnership

Trade documents solutions provider CargoX has gone live with its partnership with Korean container carrier HMM, providing the electronic bill of lading (eBOL) technology to the eight largest global carrier.

“The benefits of using electronic bills of lading are clear — all actors in the trade flow save time and money, all while increasing reliability and security,” CargoX CEO Bojan Čekrlić told FreightWaves by email on Monday.

“There are direct cost reductions from not having to buy, print, sign,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cargox-goes-live-with-hmm-ebol-partnership

CargoX proof of concept showcases interoperability for global trade eBOLs

Document transfer solutions provider CargoX says that by utilizing blockchain technology, it recently concluded an electronic bill of lading (eBOL) transfer with a competing provider, edoxOnline, within six minutes, a process that traditionally takes hours or even days.

The potential benefit of that streamlining is highlighted by a recent McKinsey study showing that 40% of containerized trade still relies on the transfer of paper record copies with up to 50 sheets of paper from up to 30...

MacGregor Partners provides ‘glide path’ to contactless eBOL industry adoption

The pandemic accelerated the need for digital transformation across the supply chain. Perhaps no more so than in transportation, trucking and its intersection with facilities — the interaction between drivers, facility staff and the ubiquitous paper that accompanies this interplay. Overnight, the traditional face-to-face communication and passing of physical paper between both parties was interrogated and defined as a risk to eliminate.

The industry’s response? Contactless e-bills of lading...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/macgregor-partners-provides-glide-path-to-contactless-ebol-industry-adoption

Commentary: Electronic bills of lading necessary but not sufficient

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), a nonprofit formed in 2019, has been at the forefront of helping the ocean vessel sector pivot from paper to digital documents and improve the scheduling of containerized shipments. Of course, 2020 saw a lot of pivoting due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in e-commerce-related imports. The DCSA has...

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