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Well smugglers don’t really use the concept of “waybill” and “shipment contract”, they will just attach their box of stuff to the external part of the vessel or try to smuggle it within passengers’ luggage.

It will have an impact on industrial counterfeiting, since as an operator you will see “signed and approved” shipments but also “similar ones but not signed by the brand owner” requests. Then operators decide their risk tolerance.

If customs speed up compliance it will be for fully signed shipments though!
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Chris 2y ago

Right my thinking was industrial counterfeiting - entire containers of contraband etc… seems like this would provide the requisite trail of sign offs of ever audited.

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Thomas Rossi 2y ago

Yea, the only financing so far in fact comes from an eu tender for building what they call “anti counterfeiting infrastructure”.

I liked the call because it has to be open source and not locked to any technology. The failure of Tradelens by IBM was very loud: you can’t have this system maintained by a single entity. It has to be “really” p2p, some peers will be happy to share data with customs, other will be happy just not to have everything on phone and emails. Maybe multiple networks will come out, pretty hyped about it 😂

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Chris 2y ago

Sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing. I’ll keep a look out for the updates. 🤙🏼