News / Brussels Airport cargo community the early bird with blockchain launch

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Brussels Airport and its community have become one of the first air cargo organisations to implement blockchain technology.

Forming the basis of its Landsite Management Tool, blockchain will be used to track the handover of cargo from handlers to forwarders, under the freight management app.

“The handover of cargo is an important phase, as it also confers the legal transfer, and liability for the cargo,” said Steven Polmans, head of Brussels Airport Cargo.

“Today it is a very time-consuming and manual process, involving paperwork ...