$12M Wheat Trade Between U.S. and Indonesia Settled on Blockchain

International agriculture giants, Agrocorp and Cargill, have traded $12 million worth of wheat from North America to Indonesia via the blockchain. 

The transaction was made via the Singapore-based blockchain platform dltledgers, which is based on Hyperledger Fabric. 

International cooperative bank Rabobank, ship owner Amarante, and shipping agent Transmarine, also partnered in the transaction.

The trade settled on April 1 after five days, with reported time savings over manual processes and increased security and transparency. The transaction reduced the need for paperwork and for complex traditional trade settlement processes. 

Rabobank’s key facilitators, Mario Cortinhal and Olivier De Jong said the time they’d typically spent processing documents had been cut in half.

Blockchain going mainstream

Dltledgers’ blockchain platform has so far facilitated more than $2 billion in trade for 400 companies, 45 banking partners, and thousands of other ecosystem partners. CEO Samir Neji said the major cross continent wheat trade had “proven our blockchain solution’s ability to go mainstream”.

Agrocorp has been working with blockchain-based trades for over a year. Jumpstart Magazine reported its Sustainability Manager Abhinav Vijay as saying:

“Considering the current world climate and the logistical challenges to move physical documents around the globe, this is just a start and we hope to execute more trades via the platform in the near future.”