Today TradeLens, the joint IBM / Maersk blockchain initiative announced the addition of two major shippers MSC and CMA-CGM. They are the second and fourth largest carriers in the world which makes TradeLens the blockchain platform with data on the largest proportion of shipping containers. TradeLens aims to enhance transparency and efficiency for global shipping.
This is a massive win for the platform. There have been concerns that with Maersk as one of the founding partners it would be hard to attract other major shipping companies. Apart from Maersk, existing shipping members include Maersk subsidiary Hamburg Sud as well as the world’s tenth and eleventh largest carriers Pacific International Lines (PIL) and Israeli shipper
ZIM which joined last month.
Update: Just over a month later,
Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express joined TradeLens.
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