Global shipment management software solutions provider CargoSmart, working with Oracle, has launched an initiative to develop a blockchain solution for shipment documentation to improve complex supply chain processes that it claims can cut down...

Trade facilitation, especially across Asia, is set to be improved with the launch of Global eTrade Services’ (GeTS) Open Trade Blockchain (OTB), an inclusive and extensible blockchain service.

While it is acknowledged that blockchain technology has much potential to be useful for the shipping industry, so far nothing much substantive has been done to develop it.

Abu Dhabi Ports unit Maqta Gateway has become the first Abu Dhabi company to develop and launch its own blockchain technology dubbed Silsal which is expected to provide a seamless and secure link between stakeholders across the trade community.

This is the year that digitalisation will rapidly come to the container line industry, online platform INTTRA believes.

Singapore is preparing well for the future of the maritime industry through investments in innovation as well as adopting the right mindset. These were the key messages at the opening of the Singapore Maritime Technology Conference (SMTC), which...

OpenPort, the digital logistics platform that uses blockchain technology to transform domestic distribution in emerging markets, today announced the launch of the Open Enterprise Logistics (OEL) Foundation, a non-profit organization open to...

Everyone is talking about blockchain but explaining what it actually does to the average shipping or legal person is a rather more challenging task. Holland & Knight lawyer K. Blythe Daly likened blockchain to a series of transactions linked...

Lloyd’s Register Foundation and Blockchain Labs for Open Collaboration (BLOC) announced a funding partnership to set up Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL), which will explore the use of blockchain for the assurance and safety of critical...

The new normal in shipping is change, and this will be driven by greater intensity of data and a focus on better asset management decision making rather than just better equipment,