Two of Canada’s government-owned structures, the federal Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Port of Montreal Authority (MPA) have joined TradeLens, the joint blockchain shipping platform of IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Maersk. CBSA and MPA revealed separately on Thursday their plans to analyze how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can improve their services.
CBSA, which manages 58,600 commercial releases, 14,400 trucks, 240,000 mail items, and 127,400 courier shipments on a daily basis, also collects more than C$88.2 million ($67.4 million) in duty and taxes. Therefore, the agency wants to fin...
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