EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS), a leading operations management and analytics company, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Pantos Logistics, the leading logistics company in South Korea, has become the latest member to join the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Industry participants want practical applications. They want to know what’s happening, and whether or not it’s an actual solution for their needs.
FedEx, the giant US courier company, proactive adopter blockchain technology and BiTA member, has joined Linux hosted open-source project Hyperledger to further advance the use of distributed ledger in logistics, and transportation.
According to an open letter from Walmart to its leafy green suppliers, the company will forge ahead in blockchain development as part of the Food Trust as soon as early 2019.
R2 Logistics, Inc., a customer-focused third-party logistics (3PL) service provider, is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Nasdaq listed technology firm Ideanomics (NASDAQ:SSC) has formed a joint venture with APMEN Trade Tech Co Ltd., to streamline ports in the Asia Pacific by using blockchain and artificial intelligence in the Port of Shanghai, currently the world’s busiest port.
The two Koreas consider historic trade agreements in the middle of ‘Autumn Eve’, their peak shipping season.
The Chicago based freight forwarder and 3PL announced that it has joined BiTA.
Able Freight Services, a leading global cold chain logistics provider with 25 years in business, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry.
Team Worldwide, a diversified global logistics provider that offers “best in class” logistics, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, truck transportation and other solutions for its customers around the globe, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
CargoX used a smart contract-powered bill of lading to reduce transfer and payment times to four minutes. FreightWaves spoke with CargoX’s CEO Stefan Kukman by phone.
Advent Intermodal Solutions (www.adventintermodal.com), a leader in information technology and cloud-based software solutions for port and terminal operators and landside logistics, has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA).
ITL, a Chicago-based company specializing in warehousing and logistics, recently became a member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
The Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) and Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) today announced a new partnership to improve coordination, cooperation and governance within their respective memberships.
Techpertise together with TMW Systems …Transport blockchain startups have shifted their strategies from ICOs and token sales to traditional VC raises and the brand new thing: security token offerings.
Just how a Deerfield, IL, company became so important to the industry is a long story that starts with the teletypewriter, a macaroni-twisting machine and its namesake and founder, Edward Kleinschmidt.
According to a survey by PwC, 84% of respondents are actively involved in blockchain. The Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) could be the industry’s answer to the ever-pressing question of standardization—after all, 45% of the survey’s respondents believe that the issue of trust could delay blockchain.
Logistyx Technologies (www.logistyx.com), a leading developer of Transportation Management Execution™ shipping software, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA).
Salesforce, the original SaaS unicorn and the world’s leading customer relationship management platform, announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
Sharelogis Trade Services China Ltd, the leading China-based provider of logistics services and supply chain solutions, announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
The concept involves storing a multitude of various types of data within a distributed ledger network, including information about a given package’s destination, its movement and transportation plans for shipment units.
Cisco, the world’s leading provider of the networking hardware that powers the internet, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
By offering truck drivers and dock workers micropayments to upload data to the blockchain, Fr8 Network is changing the calculus of technology adoption and pushing the transportation industry forward.
Slync, an intelligent platform redefining multi-party interaction, automation, and collaboration throughout the supply chain , has agreed to a multi-year partnership with FreightWaves, the leading data and content source for the freight market.
Microsoft and IBM’s enterprise blockchain projects consume a lot of media bandwidth, but there is more exciting and ambitious work being done in transport and logistics by a thriving community of startups.
RTW Air Services SA, a Swiss General Sales & Service Agent (GSSA) for a substantial number of international air carriers, is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
53% of the survey respondents had never heard of blockchain before, with only 18% able to correctly identify what the technology actually is.
XYO Network, a company bringing realtime location data to the blockchain, has announced its membership in the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
JP and Zach Strickland were at the McLeod CFO conference at the Westin in Nashville. We sat down with BiTA Managing Director and co-founder (and FreightWaves CEO!) Craig Fuller and McLeod’s VP of Special Projects Ken Craig, also a BiTA cofounder, to talk about the history of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance. We talk about technology alliances, intellectual property, data standards, and, of course, the promise of blockchain.
Blue Horseshoe, a global software and services firm specializing in supply chain and logistics, has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA).
Omnichain Solutions (Omnichain), a supply chain technology startup that leverages the power of Blockchain, announces it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
MercuryGate International, Inc., a leading provider of transportation management system (TMS) solutions, announced today that the company has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
Tranzport, a logistics technology and services company, has announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Collabrian Design and Technology, a provider of digital transformation solutions to the transportation and logistics industry, has become the newest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Maverick Transportation LLC, is excited to announce it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Chainyard, North Carolina’s largest blockchain specialist, announces its alliance with Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Panelists from Redwood Logistics, Slync, the Trusted IoT Alliance, and Flux Protocol discussed the difficulties of pushing adoption of blockchain-powered IoT devices, despite the technology’s obvious potential.
Wolf Direct, an emerging U.S. transportation solutions provider has announced their membership in the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Techpertise together with TMW Systems …We’ve known for years that public blockchains needed a second layer for throughput and privacy, but only now are solutions for the largest networks being built out and tested.
APL Logistics, a provider in integrated logistics, has become the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Jack Cooper Holdings and Logistics, a specialty transportation and logistics provider, announced its membership in the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) today.
CargoX, an independent supplier of blockchain-based solutions for logistics, has become the latest member to join the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Creating private data for separate nodes on a Fabric channel was kind of complicated and cumbersome, but now it’s easy, making meaningful collaboration between businesses a real possibility.
South Korea-based Lotte Global Logistics announced that it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, recently became an industry association member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
VOLT Technology, a post-ICO startup using the power of blockchain to provide companies, individuals and couriers a decentralized platform that manages point-to-point (P2P) deliveries, has joined BiTA.
SF Holdings, a leading integrated logistics and supply chain service provider based in China, has joined BiTA.
General Electric has filed a patent that draws out its plan on using blockchain in validating and verifying 3D-printed products making its way into its supply chain.
Info-X Software Technology has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance to participate in the global alliance of businesses working to develop and educate on blockchain.
UPS opens $100M Paris distribution center, Boston prepares for traffic increases, and more on Today’s Pickup.
Panelists from BiTA, IBM, Chain.io, and Morris, Manning, and Martin talked about blockchain use cases, the future of the technology, the regulatory landscape, and had different views on cryptocurrencies.
Sweetbridge Alliance, the go-to-market network for a decentralized, liquid and transparent global supply chain powered by open-source blockchain protocols, recently became an industry association member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Just weeks after opening an office in Singapore, the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) has engaged with industry on the benefits and potential of blockchain technology. These discussions have led to NR Capital joining the Alliance.
SpotSee, the global leader in shock and vibration monitoring through low-cost connectivity and data, is joining the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) to help develop the standards for blockchain in the transportation market.
RevUnit, a digital strategy and product studio with clients in the logistics space, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) to help industry leaders work toward common blockchain standards.
K & L, a privately owned full-service transportation and supply chain solution provider, recently became a member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Technology like this comes along only every couple of generations. “We believe there will no ‘winner,’ there will be multiple blockchains, and we need to play in a interoperable world. Think of this as a big secure database, with a big secure search engine on top,” said Dale Chrystie of FedEx.
BiTA is opening an office in Singapore to cater to the Asian and Oceanian market, building on its recent membership success in the region.
Tranzlogix, a technology solutions company for the transport industry, has joined BiTA.
Don Tapscott offered a bold, near-utopian vision of the transformation that blockchain will bring to the global economy and the nature of the corporation itself.
Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
HCL Technologies, a leading global technology company, today announced it has joined the BiTA.
Panalpina has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), a forum of leading tech and transportation companies for the development and implementation of blockchain standards in the freight industry.
Obtaining data that is both clean and usable remains a challenge for the industry, one that blockchain is promising to solve.
We may not have seen full-scale industrialization with blockchain applications just yet, but we’re not in the early days anymore. Big change is coming.
As blockchain technology works its way into the transportation ecosystem, there is remains plenty to learn about its potential, but its success will depend on multiple parties working together.
Smart contracts will lower the labor costs—and thus the price—of receivables factoring, but don’t expect same-day payments because the technology won’t change fundamental capital requirements, says Triumph’s Jordan Graft.
The top managers in the space are acknowledging that cryptos are a thing, but just how much of your net wealth should you put into them?
BiTA announced it would be forming Think Tanks to help identify industry pain points that blockchain could help solve. The Alliance also said the first BiTA Standards should be out before the end of 2018.
The new Blockchain in Supply Chain Alliance (BiSCA) is designed to meet the needs of supply chain participants looking for education and guidance on the development of blockchain standards.
Intelligent Audit will demonstrate Intellichain, an end-to-end payment verification and processing blockchain for the transportation and logistics industries on Tuesday at Transparency18.
Scroll Network announced its affiliation with the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Consolidated Chassis Management has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Roadrunner Transportation Systems announced today that it has joined BiTA, a group dedicated to implementing standards for the digitalization of the supply chain.
FreightOptics, the freight auditing and optimization software with business intelligence, cost allocation capabilities, and a web-based transportation management system, announced today it has been admitted to the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA).
Brad Taylor, VP of data and IoT at Omnitracs, spoke to FreightWaves about the intersection of ELDs and blockchain technology before the BiTA spring symposium next week.
Suddath Global Logistics (SGL), a division of The Suddath Companies, joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Continuing its commitment to leveraging emerging technologies, the Florida East Coast Railway has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Today, CJ Logistics announced it has joined BiTA, an alliance of companies in the freight space dedicated to developing global, open-source standards for the use of blockchain technology in the supply chain.
OmniTRAX, Inc., one of the largest privately held transportation service companies in North America and an affiliate of The Broe Group. has joined BiTA.
Gil Perez, Senior VP at SAP discussed the impact of blockchain in the transportation and logistics industry and the need of consortiums to expedite adoption.
Realizing the power of blockchain technology, dexFreight has joined BITA.
Dicom Transportation Group has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) in an effort to help shape blockchain standards across the transportation industry.
Agile Blockchain Corp. has announced its alliance with the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Great Dane announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
TRAC Intermodal has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization for the development of blockchain standards and education for the transportation industry.
Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) announced today it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Precision Software, a provider of global trade management and transportation execution solutions, today announced it has joined BiTA.
Custom Pro Logistics, a Cincinnati based 3PL, has announced its membership in BiTA.
Chain.io, a provider of systems integration services for logistics providers, proudly announces that it has joined the BiTA.
McLeod’s VP of Special Projects and BiTA co-founder Ken Craig recounted the early days of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance and explained the importance of data standards to the transportation industry.
Fraight AI, the industry’s first AI-enabled freight brokerage, announced today that it has joined BiTA.
ORBCOMM Inc., a global provider of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, today announced that it has joined BiTA.
PAM Transport, Inc., a top 100 largest For-Hire Carrier in North America, announced today that it has joined BiTA.
Techpertise together with TMW Systems …Tim Leonard and Daniel Pickett discussed blockchain in front of an audience of trucking executives at the TCA Annual Convention in Kissimmee, Florida, this week.
Enterprise technology provider will conduct product demo at Transparency ’18 and work with leading logistics companies to educate the market on blockchain applications, standards and best practices
In June, panelists at SMC³’s Connections 2018 will continue the blockchain conversation.
ThreatAdvice a provider of cybersecurity education, awareness and threat intelligence announced today that it that it has been admitted into the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
