FedEx, in association with BiTA, is looking to create more transparency and data security in logistics operations through blockchain technology.
Call it the Internet of Things, the Sharing Economy, a result of the ELD mandate, or the emergence of blockchain-style applications, but we are witnessing a digital gold rush when it comes to developing technologies bent on improving supply chains.
Global ag giant Louis Dreyfus Company has successfully concluded its first international shipment utilizing blockchain technology.
Industry-wide ELD adoption is forging a yellow brick road for blockchain and other technological marvels.
“It’s fairly mind-blowing what’s happening in the industry right now,” says Chris Polk, An American Trucker podcaster.
Last Friday, the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) decided to keep its standards intellectual property open, to encourage ease of adoption.
IBM and Maersk have teamed up to build blockchain solutions for the maritime container shipping industry, apparently focusing on automating costly import-export documentation.
FLS Transportation Services, Limited (FLS), a North American third-party provider of logistics solutions and transportation management services, is the latest 3PL to become a member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
Truckers in the U.S. deserve better pay, but despite what many think, it’s not the fault of the carriers that they are not getting it. The system is broke and needs to be overhauled.
MSTS has become the newest member of BiTA and promises to revloutionize the world freight payments.
Block Array LLC, a Chattanooga, TN-based startup, today announced its membership to BiTA – the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
Navistar delivers massive quarter, blowing away estimates and showing tremendous year-over-year growth. This reinforces the view that the freight market is strong, as carriers purchase new trucks to take advantage of freight demand.
Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), the freight industry’s first advocacy organization devoted to the development of blockchain standards and education, today announced the first board of directors for its standards council, following the inaugural board meeting on December 5, 2017.
Don Tapscott, business executive and blockchain thought leader, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for FreightWaves’ Transparency18 conference. Tapscott combines a deep knowledge of the ways that technological innovation has changed business over the past thirty years with his up-to-date network of blockchain researchers.
Dan Piscatelli has been appointed as CFO of TransRisk, and former TransRisk CFO, Dan Conner, has been appointed as CFO of Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).
In an interview with FreightWaves, Tadmore Transportation CEO Pete Emahiser says the blockchain will create a common language that carriers, shippers and brokers can all speak, but he also forsees other possibilities, including a capacity blockchain.
Like all of the companies at the first Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) meeting, held last month in Atlanta, TMW Systems sees blockchain technology playing a critical role in the freight transportation industry going forward.
BNSF Logistics, a leading multi-modal third-party logistics service provider, announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) to help lead, develop and promote benchmark standards for blockchain applications; the next generation of secure transactions in logistics and supply chain management.
Job application fraud is a serious and significant problem in all industries. But without the time and financial resources to properly vet candidates, especially in an industry such as trucking with is facing a shortage of some 50,000 drivers, bad employees get through.
One of the common questions surrounding blockchain is how it will be utilized in the supply chain. Many people assume smart contracts, transparency and quicker payments will be early uses. For Rana Basu, founder and president of Consurgo, that discussion is ongoing on a daily basis.
