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New tests of the Blockchain technology applied to the logistics
It is experimented by a consortium constituted by AB InBev, Accenture, APL and Kuehne + Nagel
March 21, 2018
A consortium constituted from the company of navigation APL of the French group CMA CGM, from the logistic group Helvetic Kuehne + Nagel and from the multinationals Anheuser-Busch InBev and Accenture, first specialized in the production of drinks and the second one in the supply of technological services of advising and, has tested together to an European customs organization the employment of the protocol of Blockchain communication, with technology based on the logistics of the distributed database, in order to realize shipments without the physical or digital exchange of documents, but making use instead of the sharing and distribution of data with technology blockchain. The experimentation has regarded 12 shipments with several destinations, each with different normative requirement.
"Our tests - Adriana Diener-Veinott has explained, in charge of the Freight field & Logistics of Accenture - have demonstrated the feasibility of a shipment in which many documents they can be replaced from a sure and distributed sharing of data with clear and defined property. This offers to the companies the meaningful opportunity to save time and money meanwhile, improving their service to the customers".
"Blockchain - it has evidenced the computer science director of Kuehne + Nagel, Martin Kolbe - is one of the more promising technologies for the logistics. It can digitize many of the procedures currently carried out with paper support and to obviate to the variety of the different interfaces". Also in charge of the Strategic section the Liner Management of the APL, Eddie Ng, it has agreed on the optimal perspectives offered also to the field of the containerized marine transport from the Blockchain technology, than - it has found - it will allow "to accelerate the digital transformation of the segment container of the shipping being moved the entire logistic chain from the traditional transactions on paper to more efficient, sure and fast procedures".
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A consortium constituted from the company of navigation APL of the French group CMA CGM, from the logistic group Helvetic Kuehne + Nagel and from the multinationals Anheuser-Busch InBev and Accenture, first specialized in the production of drinks and the second one in the supply of technological services of advising and, has tested together to an European customs organization the employment of the protocol of Blockchain communication, with technology based on the logistics of the distributed database, in order to realize shipments without the physical or digital exchange of documents, but making use instead of the sharing and distribution of data with technology blockchain. The experimentation has regarded 12 shipments with several destinations, each with different normative requirement.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
