Yesterday the Future International Trade Alliance published a "Electronic Bill of Lading Declaration", communication that aims to ensure the commitment of all Parties to international trade to work together to promote digitization of documents exchanged, starting with load, within the respective areas of relevance. The purpose is particularly significant being the FIT Alliance of leading trade organisations world trade. The alliance, in fact, was established in February 2022 by BIMCO, the world's leading association of shipping, by the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), organization that promotes the process of digitization of the containerized shipping, by FIATA, the international association of forwarding companies, from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Swift, the exchange services company of financial transactions.

A commitment, that of the FIT Alliance, more necessary than ever Given that, as the Alliance recalled, last year only 2.1% bills of lading and consignment notes exchanged In the field of container transport services was in shape electronics. The alliance highlighted that a McKinsey study estimates that if bills of lading in the shipping industry containerized were all in electronic format that could result in the release of about 30-40 billion dollars for the growth of world trade and, with The elimination of paper practices could save 28 thousand trees per year significantly reducing emissions of carbon.

The FIT Alliance urged all stakeholders to sign the declaration in order to publicly report the readiness to implement this change and to commit to work together to promote digitalisation in their respective countries Sectors.