digitaliization

• 29 May 18 Blockchain Insurance Platform Piloted by Maersk Launches The world’s first blockchain powered platform for marine insurance, which has been trialled and adopted by Maersk, has been launched for commercial use. Insurwave, developed in a joint venture between Ernst and Young (EY)... Read more ›
• 03 May 18 Synchromodal integrated planning A PhD dissertation which proposes an integrated approach for optimising synchromodal container transportation seeks to bring together optimal transport planning in intermodal networks and the design of an optimal fare class mix of customer-oriented... Read more ›
• 28 March 18 45HC Using CXO Cryptocurrency for Online Cargo Shipping Online shipping platform 45HC has become the first shipping company to accept cryptocurrency payments for container shipping. 45HC.com has begun accepting CXO tokens as payment for its cargo shipping services. CXO is the utility... Read more ›
• 06 March 18 Evergreen to Digitize Bills of Lading Evergreen Line, the fifth-largest shipping company, has announced it will introduce a paperless Bill of Lading (B/L) in partnership with trade finance digitization solutions provider Bolero International. Bolero International, which delivers electronic bill of lading... Read more ›
• 02 February 18 New TEU Cryptocurrency Offered to Shippers 300cubits, one of the first companies to focus on the use of blockchain applications for the container shipping industry, has opened up its sign-up scheme so that shippers can start registering for the Hong... Read more ›
• 05 December 17 Does Bitcoin have a future in shipping? Google now receives more search requests for Bitcoin than for Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift combined. This week, a shipping company announced that it is working on a deal that will be paid... Read more ›
• 22 November 17 INTTRA Reveals Cloud-based Container Shipping Innovation INTTRA, the ocean container shipping industry’s largest neutral network, has added two new cloud-based products and enhancements — the Container Forecasting and Allocation Solutions Tool (C-FAST) and an update for its Ocean Schedules offering.... Read more ›
• 20 November 17 Digitally Improving Port Landside Efficiency The ongoing challenge for the port community is how to optimise operations. That’s just one of the findings in new research by the terminal operating system provider, Navis. Optimisation to improve productivity was the... Read more ›
• 15 November 17 Data digitalisation project leads to sustainable results Project partners in a European data digitalisation project say that EU research and innovation projects can lead to sustainable results. The Portopia project, which has been called a milestone in the data digitalisation agenda... Read more ›
• 13 November 17 Q&A: McKinsey Explains Container Shipping 2067 Vision The shipping industry is starting a whole new era of disruption as new technologies force players in the maritime supply chain to either digitize or face their demise. One of its key findings was... Read more ›