Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is a partner and investor in a new Japanese digital logistics platform, Sustainable Shared Transport. The company was founded by Yamato which has the largest market share for parcel delivery in Japan and also operates internationally. Fujitsu’s blockchain plays an important but relatively minor part of the platform by securing the logistics data across companies in a tamper resistant manner.
The novel solution launches on February 1 and aims to allow road transport and logistics companies to share long distance shipments by matching shippers to logistic firms, using the platform for booking purposes.
There are three key motivations. In Japan there’s a transport capacity shortage, which we suspect is a staff shortage issue. Additionally, there are climate change issues driving shipping firms to be more efficient. Driven by these two factors, new legislation becomes effective from April 1 requiring shipping and logistic firms to implement optimization.
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