For three years the electronic bill of lading had one agreed diagnosis: walled gardens. Every platform issued documents only its own members…
For eighty years, the answer to “will I actually get paid?” belonged to a bank. Under UCP 600, a documentary credit is…
Almost every digital trade project of the last decade has been aimed at a document. The bill of lading, the letter of…
Two numbers, from two different surveys, describe the same industry in the same period. In December 2024 the FIT Alliance — the…
Some years ago Maersk Line did something the industry still quotes and still misreads: it followed one refrigerated container of avocados from…
The industry has settled on a favourite progress metric for digital trade: the number of jurisdictions that have enacted law based on…
In October 2024, Trafigura closed a US$2.885 billion borrowing base for its concentrates business. Twenty-seven lenders signed, with ING as facility and…
In under a year, the payments industry taught software agents to buy. Google’s Agent Payments Protocol, launched in September 2025 with sixty-plus…
In 2025 the industry hit a genuine milestone: the first standards-based electronic bill of lading that could move between platforms, not just…
When a container racks up demurrage, everyone blames congestion or the carrier. The real culprit is usually the paperwork. Demurrage is a…
