DP World joins with TradeLens to digitize global supply chains

Manual, time-consuming administrative processes are replaced with digital procedures powered by blockchain technology.

DP World has completed the early stages of integration with TradeLens, a blockchain-based digital container logistics platform, jointly developed by A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM. In 2019 DP World’s terminals handled 71.2 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) containers from around 70,000 vessels.

The collaboration between DP World and the TradeLens platform will help accelerate the digitization of global supply chains.  DP World aims to connect all its 82 marine and inland container terminals, as well as feeder companies and logistics divisions with TradeLens.  

TradeLens brings together data from the entire global supply chain ecosystem including shippers, port operators and shipping lines.  It also aims to modernize manual and paper-based documents, replacing them with blockchain enabled digital solutions.

For DP World, the data from its integration with TradeLens will improve operational efficiency with earlier visibility of container flows across multiple carriers.  Such visibility includes confirmation of the transport modality that follows the port stay for each container, which in heavy transhipment or rail ports enable better yard planning.  

It will also expand the capabilities of DP World’s digital platforms created to move online the management of logistics.  The DF Alliance, SeaRates, LandRates and AirRates enable shippers to move cargo to and from anywhere at the click of a mouse, across DP World’s network and beyond.

TradeLens provides visibility across the entire supply chain, from booking to clearance to payments and is built on a wealth of input from the industry including direct integrations with more than 110 ports and terminals, 15+ customs authorities around the world and an increasing number of intermodal providers.

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