As component of its electronic effort to improve client experience, Port of Salalah just recently signed up with TradeLens, the blockchain-enabled electronic delivery system.
TradeLens, which is among the leading open and also neutral supply chain systems has actually been established in a partnership in between Maersk and also IBM. The TradeLens community currently consists of over 100 varied organisations consisting of service providers, ports, incurable drivers, 3PLs, and also products forwarders. Currently, the system takes care of 10 million occasions and also greater than 100,000 papers each week.
Port of Salalah which just recently managed document annual quantity of 4 million TEUs is functioning very closely with various other entities in the supply chain community to introduce electronic improvement in its daily procedure and also sees TradeLensas an essential device that uses a worldwide clear criterion for partnership. Joining the system offers SPS and also its clients the capacity to safely give end-to-end supply chain details, smooth information sharing and also brand-new methods for partnership which will certainly lead to enhanced profession moves using the port.
Mark Hardiman, the Chief Executive Officer of Port of Salalah specified, “Joining TradeLens is an important step forward for Port of Salalah in supporting the modernizing of the trade ecosystem. Logistics has been identified as one of the key pillars for economic diversification for the Sultanate of Oman. Adopting and incorporating blockchain technology into all aspects of the supply chain will not only enhance the attractiveness of Salalah for these companies but also support the development of new business models that can further leverage the geographical location of Salalah.”
Thomas Sproat, Director of Network Development at Maersk GTD kept in mind, “The addition of the Port of Salalah in Oman continues to enhance a strong ecosystem for TradeLens in the Middle East. This ecosystem has the ability to leverage blockchain as one of the major components in spurring further innovation in the region. Integrating data with an important customer such as the port of Salalah is an important milestone for TradeLens and is a stepping stone for collaboration and will open up new ways of working across the supply chain ecosystem to increase efficiencies and visibility for those involved.”
Port of Salalah is run by APM Terminals as component of the APMTerminals Global Terminal Network The port additionally runs a really energetic General Cargo Terminal which managed over 16 million MT of non-containerised freight in 2015.
(Source: Times of Oman)
Sea News, January 9