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About Bulkchain
Bulkchain is a collaborative platform built on NxtPort technology, dedicated to build the Breakbulk port of the Future. Originally founded in the heart of the Antwerp Breakbulk community, the platform allows participants to work together on the administrative processes to ship breakbulk cargo. By sharing data on shipments early in the supply chain, efficiency of the entire process increases, reducing time spent and administration efforts. In the end, all parties involved benefit from working together through the NxtPort platform.
Involved stakeholders:
- Forwarders
- Terminals
- Shippers / agents
- Customs
- Transport operators
- Consignee and consignor
- Surveyors
- Port authorities
- ...
Agile project approach
By following the Agile project approach, a core team existing of NxtPort and members from the community work on the functional analysis of the different modules. This method of working together allows an active build-up of the application with the specific needs of the community. Once a new module is ready, user feedback helps to improve the solution with every new release.
With bi-weekly "sprints" and feedback loops, we strive to bring small parts of the solution bit by bit, focussing on added value for active stakeholders, stable (yet quick) deliverables and proactive (re)design.
The following modules were identified when the project initiated:
Community
The following list of companies represents the collaboration of the community during the several co-envisions that were organised to build the foundation of the Bulkchain use case.
Centralised
One central API gives access to all connected participants
Efficiency
Reduce time spent and administration for repetitive tasks
Quality Assurance
Avoid human errors and increase the quality of your data
Built together with
Data hub
Bulkchain is a data hub. This means that all participants collaborate with each other towards a common goal. Companies that join the initiative agree to share and consume data based on the principles that are set out by the community. As such every participant is both data user and data provider. Compared to other NxtPort use cases, Bulkchain combines a set of data sharing API's into a "chain" solution.This has an impact on the pricing. Instead of subscribing to separate API's and using a "pay per call" pricing model, the breakbulk community has decided that Bulkchain should follow a "per ton" model. For detailed information, don't hesitate to contact our commercial team.
How to join
Companies that want to join need to follow the following steps:
- Register to the NxtPort platform (if you haven't already done so)
- Subscribe to the Live environment by clicking on the Subscribe button
- Select your role (currently, only 1 role is allowed)
- NxtPort will contact you with the information on how to proceed
Pricing
The following applies to all entities that collaborate on the Bulkchain platform during the PoC phase
- When all modules are available, €0,10 per ton is invoiced, equally divided between terminal, shipping agent and forwarder*.
- In the pilot period (TDO + TDC available), a discount of 50% is applied.
- API calls for testing on the staging environment (with shared accounts) are not invoiced
* in the future, more pricing plans will allow other participants to join the hub
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Developers
The Bulkchain API is created from an API-first perspective.
Access-controlled API
This API is an access-controlled API. This means that your application needs to accommodate an OAuth2 authentication flow between the application user and the NxtPort platform.
The application user logs in to the NxtPort identity component, and your application requests access to the API on behalf of the application user. The NxtPort platform then returns an access token to your application, which can be used to call the API.
To be able to request an access token, your application needs to be registered in the NxtPort platform. Registering an application is currently a manual process, so please contact NxtPort for this. Go to our support desk where you will find all required information on how to get started.
App store
NxtPort supports and encourages software developers to build additional features and software around its API's. Should you be interested in finding out what is possible and discuss how the technology could be incorporated into your solutions, please contact us through the support desk.
Documentation
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