Consumer products and logistics firms struggling with digitisation
Companies in the consumer products, retail and logistics arena are struggling to make digitisation investments ...
The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has finalised its standardised framework for digitised bookings and bills of lading (B/Ls), which it hopes will speed up adoption and bring in a new era of interconnected trade.
The new Booking 2.0 and Bill of Lading 3.0 standards promise to overcome one of the major hurdles to digitalising B/Ls – that of standardisation – by ensuring that no one platform provider can become a gatekeeper for the technology.
The new standards have also incorporated some ...
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Theodor Strauss
February 25, 2025 at 2:41 pmAfter all these years, the legal base is still non existent. When will countries adopt the Rotterdam Rules? It is high time.