Accenture announced that it successfully tested a blockchain solution with a freight and logistics consortium. The alliance includes Anheuser-Busch InBev, APL the shipping container company, logistics business Kuehne + Nagel, and a European customs organization.
Accenture initiated the consortium. It’s not the first in the industry after IBM announced a joint venture with another container company Maersk in January.
The Accenture experiment was to replace conventional digital and physical document exchange with blockchain technology “under single ownership principles determined by the type of information.”
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