Blockchain as a decentralized and immutable ledger can help stakeholders within fashion supply chains to improve trustability, reduce counterfeit products and increase labor equality across the horizon.
Hubtek has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). Read about this new company and why it joined the Alliance.
Hong Kong-based Tigers, a global transportation and logistics company, is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). BiTA is developing blockchain standards for the global transportation/logistics/supply chain marketplace.
BLOC recently collaborated with mining company BHP, Japanese shipping company NYK, and biofuel company GoodFuels, to deliver sustainable biofuel to the BHP-chartered, NYK-owned bulk carrier – all via BLOC’s blockchain fuels assurance platform.
Dale Chrystie of FedEx was elected as the first chair of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) Standards Council (BiTAS), during its February Board of Directors meeting.
In the transportation and logistics circles, blockchain has been an enigma – a technology that holds extensive promise on paper, and yet on the flip side, is extremely hard to implement.
Stakeholders within supply chains need to realize the potential of blockchain and look to work on pilot programs that can translate into commercial applications a few years down the road.
Shippers like to know who is carring their cargo. Freight Friend promotes the development of a personal relationship between shippers and truckers.
Trucking companies will already be aware of the difficulties of recruiting reliable staff and according to Jackfruit Systems those difficulties will get worseover the coming decade. So the development of Fleet Operate will help match available drivers to cargo ready for transportation.
In light of various contamination scares and disease outbreaks, it is essential to disrupt food supply chains to create more visibility and transparency as products pass through multitude of stakeholders between the farm to fork.
Blocklet Trusted Vehicle Applications offer a trouble free method of recording and logging critical vehicle data as the truck is operating. The system sends a data packeage that is verified and posted to the blockchain promoting trust and transparency.
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.
