Daniel Wilson, Director of Business Development and Juan-Jose Ruiz, Head of Strategy and Business Development at TradeLens were invited to speak with Walid Al Saqqaf, founder and host of Insureblocks, a dedicated weekly podcast on blockchain, smart contracts and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the insurance industry.
Daniel and Juan are jointly responsible for building out the investment case, as well as overseeing and implementing TradeLens mid to long term strategy, and managing third-party engagements.
The interview is a fantastic 54-minute deep-dive into the blockchain, consortia, standards, and interoperability at the heart of TradeLens. Daniel and Juan expertly convey the thinking behind the platform and expand on the goals and challenges for the development of the ecosystem and the marketplace.
Click below to listen to the podcast from this page via Spotify player.
And follow the link below to the Insureblocks blog to read Walid's written digest of the interview.
https://www.insureblocks.com/ep-73-tradelens-supply-chain-on-the-blockchain/
For both better and worse, TradeLens has been among the very first adopters of APIs for the shipping industry. It’s meant that we’ve been though our share of trial and error while iterating our designs. But, now, a couple of years in, our APIs have largely stabilized. So it’s a good time to reflect on and share some of what we’ve learned.
When TradeLens launched last year, it received a plenty of business and trade-press attention. Now, as a pilot of TradeLens gets underway in Canada, the platform receives the spotlight for the role it is playing in real-world supply chain innovation.
80% of consumer goods are carried by the ocean shipping industry, a complex network of hundreds of actors and processes, using multiple modes of freight transportation (including ocean, inland and air carriers). Freight fluidity helps to manage the increasing complexity of these networks.
