Earlier this month, digital freight forwarder Shipwaves and SAGT, the first public private partnership (PPP) container terminal in Sri Lanka, joined TradeLens, a blockchain-based digital container…
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/tradelens-blockchain-platform-welcomes-two-new-asian-partners/
Digital freight forwarder Shipwaves has joined TradeLens, the blockchain-enabled shipping platform developed by A.P. Møller – Maersk and IBM.
Shipwaves, based in Mumbai, India, said the move is aimed at accelerating the digitization of ocean logistics, particularly in India and the Middle East. Having recently allowed shipping bills of lading to be filed over a blockchain platform, India has been “betting big on blockchain-enabled solutions to digitize its maritime supply chains,” Shipwaves said.
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TradeLens blockchain platform, jointly developed by Maersk and IBM, welcomed two new members in July, South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT) and Shipwaves have jumped into the supply chain technology project on 16 and 21 of July respectively.
SAGT is the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) container terminal in Sri Lanka, and is an “important partner in South Asia” for TradeLens when it became the first terminal in Sri Lanka to adopt blockchain technology. This move, according to an...
https://container-news.com/another-two-members-join-maersks-blockchain-platform/
SAGT, the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) container terminal in Sri Lanka, also became the first terminal in the country to adopt blockchain technology by collaborating with TradeLens, a digital platform jointly developed by A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM. This move will help in accelerating the digitisation agenda of the shipping industry in Sri Lanka by transforming manual, paper-based and time-consuming administrative processes into digital ones.
SAGT has played an important role in...
A major step towards digitalising manual, time-consuming processes powered by Blockchain Technology will offer greater ease of doing business across the supply chain
Colombo, 17 July 2020: SAGT, the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) container terminal in Sri Lanka, also became the first terminal in the country to adopt the Blockchain Technology by collaborating with TradeLens, a digital platform jointly developed by A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM. This move will …
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On May 18, FedEx and Microsoft announced that they are joining forces to transform commerce. It is the kind of announcement I have been looking forward to and expecting for some time because of Microsoft’s share of the market for desktop operating systems.
It is also the kind of announcement that gives us an idea of where innovation in the supply chain may be...
According to a Reuters report, the coronavirus lockdown has accelerated a digitalization drive in a global shipping and logistics sector that still routinely delivers many documents by bike messenger in some countries, say industry leaders.
Limiting Costly Paper TrailPorts operator DP World DPW.DI said on Thursday it would join shipping company Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) and other peers in a blockchain platform aimed at limiting the sector’s costly paper trail.
“The situation around the coronavirus is a...
https://mfame.guru/shipping-goes-digital-in-lockdown-to-limit-costly-paper-trail/
COPENHAGEN, May 28 (Reuters) – The coronavirus lockdown has accelerated a digitalisation drive in a global shipping and logistics sector that still routinely delivers many documents by bike messenger in some countries, according to industry leaders. Ports operator DP World said on Thursday it would...
DP World has joined the blockchain TradeLens platform, developed by Maersk and IBM.
It has outlined plans to connect its 82 terminals around the world, as well as its feeder companies and logistics divisions.
The Dubai-headquartered company said the data from its integration with TradeLens would improve operational efficiency via earlier visibility of container flows across multiple carriers.
This would include “confirmation of the transport modality that follows the port stay for each …
The...
https://theloadstar.com/dp-world-set-to-enter-the-blockchain-arena-as-it-signs-up-to-tradelens/
DP World, one of the largest ports and terminals operators of the world, has launched a process to join TradeLens, a blockchain-based digital container logistics platform, developed by AP Møller – Maersk and IBM.
DP World aims to connect all its 82 marine and inland container terminals, as well as feeder companies and logistics divisions with TradeLens. In 2019 DP World’s terminals handled 71.2 million TEU from around 70,000 vessels.
TradeLens brings together data from the entire global supply...
https://container-news.com/dp-world-teams-up-with-blockchain-platform/