Tagged: maersk

March 12, 2020 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered Standard Chartered, a British multinational banking and financial services company with over $700 billion in total assets, has reportedly become the first major financial institution to join TradeLens, blockchain-powered container logistics solution created by IBM and Maersk. Standard Chartered is notably the first financial… Read More

February 21, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-headquartered tech giant IBM’s Indonesia division has confirmed that the nation’s Directorate General of Customs and Excise has begun using the blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled shipping platform, called TradeLens. This news has come after months of platform development, with the country’s Customs… Read More

August 14, 2018 @ 2:46 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Prominent Bitcoin developers Rodolfo Novak and Giacomo Zucco have reponded derisively to news that IBM and Maersk have launched a blockchain initiative for the efficient management of global shipping supply chains. It’s not really blockchain, they say. According to an article in Forbes, after, “quietly orchestrating… Read More

August 12, 2018 @ 5:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Information technology and services giant IBM announced last week it has teamed up with integrated container logistics company Maersk to create blockchain shipping solution, TradeLens. The solution was notably developed by the duo to apply blockchain global supply chain. The companies also revealed, as part of… Read More