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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It has 253 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Dublin, Ireland; and Brighton, England. As I wrote last October in The Messy Reality of Cross-Border E-commerce , it may sound simple, but enabling a consumer in one country to buy from an online retailer in another country is incredibly complex.

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How Blockchain Can Transform the Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Bitcoin is a recently invented currency that is separate from any state-controlled currency. Neither can records of inventory, warehousing conditions, delivery times and dates, and so on. Currently, three partners in Israel and Taiwan accept this. Currency volatility. You can buy bitcoin from bitcoin exchanges.