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4 October, 2021
By TransactionNexus

How TN and the Shipping Industry

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) compare the standardization power of the TN to that of the standardization of the shipping container and the economic advantages that came with it.

The paper written by Francis Gross alludes to the fact that making basic micro-data freely available on participants in a marketplace would have huge benefits to the wider economy, but must be i) globally standardised, ii) real time and iii) must be granular. These are the three key characteristics which make up the global TN system.