Recently, the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), dedicated to advancing digitalization across the entire shipping industry, has received exciting news. The draft standard for the business process and data exchange of electronic bills of lading based on distributed ledger systems—project number ISO5909 “Business Process and Data Exchange of DLT Based Electronic Bill of Lading”—has successfully passed the Committee Stage review. It has also completed the fifth stage, Enquiry Stage, as a Draft International Standard (DIS). (....)