India, Feb. 21 -- The Indonesia Customs and Excise Department adopted the blockchain-enabled shipping platform TradeLens to improve the speed, accuracy and security of local and international shipping tracking. The solution is jointly developed by Danish transport and logistics giant Maersk and IBM.

On the TradeLens blockchain network, the Indonesia Customs and Excise is expected to operate a blockchain node, validate transactions, host data, and act as Trust Anchors, or validators for the network.

The platform is expected to help in more efficient and accurate container tracking and information sharing among platform members. This will also facilitate fraud and forgery inspections as well as more consistent and transparent revenue coll...