News / Logistics industry not using blockchain to its full advantage yet

12/12/2018

2019 will be the year that the buzz around blockchain dies – but that will lead to a realisation of the technology’s true benefits.

This is the view of IATA’s head of digital cargo, Henk Mulder, who believes that as things stand, blockchain is being incorrectly harnessed by the logistics industry.

“Look at the way it is being deployed at the moment; you have Maersk and IBM utilising it as a document-tracking tool,” he said at yesterday’s Cold Chain Distribution Conference in London.

“They ...