ICO NEWS: Blockshipping - Transforming the Global Shipping Industry

Transforming The Global Container Shipping Industry

The blockchain based GSCP platform is the world's first freight container registry and the first global platform allowing all players in the shipping industry to perform a wide range of transactions related to the handling of containers. The GSCP ICO opens in May, and we are happy to invite you to participate.

Key industry players have shown immense interest in supporting the GSCP platform. It is already funded by private angels and The Danish Maritime Fund, and the development of the platform has started. But to further accelerate the development and reduce time to market, we have decided to conduct an ICO that will open for public sale 14 May 2018.

“The GSCP platform will enable a savings potential for the global container industry of at least USD 5.7bn per year.”

“The GSCP platform is expected to reduce the global CO2 emission by at least 4.6 million tons yearly.”

- Total number of CCC tokens issued: 50,000,000

- Number of tokens offered during the ICO: 42,500,000

- Number of tokens held by founders and advisors: 7,500,000

- Tokens to be sold during pre-sale and the ICO: 40,000,000

- Number of tokens to be given as bonuses: 2,500,000

- Price per token during the ICO: USD 0.62

- Total ICO revenue: USD 24,800,000

Currently no solution

Today, the container shipping industry accounts for around 60 percent of all the world’s seaborne trade. But this hugely valuable industry has been troubled for years by challenges like overcapacity, low rates, security threats, and increasing environmental regulations.

It is a well-known fact in the industry that the global shipping needs increased efficiency, improved processes and a fundamental digital transformation to ensure profitability in the future and to comply with environmental regulations.

That is why we are creating the Global Shared Container Platform – GSCP.

A neutral, global platform

GSCP is a neutral, global platform for all the players in the container shipping industry – carriers, ports, terminals, transport companies, and more.

In the world today we have more than 27m metal freight containers, and we are creating the world’s first blockchain based registry that will allow the industry to keep real-time track of all containers. At the same time, the GSCP platform will enable the industry players to efficiently manage all kinds of transactions related to container handling.

The Global Shared Container Platform is an incredibly strong idea with a significant potential for the container shipping industry.

That is why we are creating the Global Shared Container Platform – GSCP.

Enables Savings

The GSCP platform will enable a savings potential for the global container industry of at least 5.7 billion USD per year.

Global Adoption

The GSCP platform is already funded by private angels and The Danish Maritime Fund. The ICO is a natural supplementary funding source to further accelerate the development and global adoption of the GSCP platform.

Reduces Emission

The GSCP platform is expected to reduce the global CO2 emission by at least 4.6 million tons yearly.

First Nordic shipping ICO

The GSCP ICO offers a unique set of token features including a Revenue Sharing Model as well as a Market Maker Fund that allows ICO contributors to sell their coins back to the platform at a floor price until Blockshipping has met certain fixed milestones.

The GSCP token model involves the issuance of two tokens:
The internal utility token, Container Platform Token - or CPT
The external Revenue Share Token, Container Crypto Coin - or CCC.

CPT will be used for clearing and settlement of transactions between the users of the platform. These transactions will cover services related to global container handling. A percentage of the revenue from the transactions goes to a Revenue Share Pool and is passed on to the owners of the CCC tokens.

 Increasing quality

The GSCP ICO is not only the first Nordic shipping-related ICO. It is also the first ICO to be based on a new Danish framework called The ICO 2.0 Framework. The framework is expected to be published in May 2018 at the opening of the GSCP public token sale.

The purpose of The ICO 2.0 Framework is to increase the quality standards for ICOs making sure that future Danish ICOs:

- Are 100% compliant with Danish law,

- Aim at the highest standards in terms of security and quality of coding,

- Promote openness, transparency, and honesty, and

- Follow a strict code of conduct when it comes to communications and relation building with the ICO stakeholder groups.

The ICO 2.0 Framework is being created by the largest law firm in Denmark Kammeradvokaten/Poul Schmith in collaboration with the Nordic fintech advisory firm Norfico.

Roadmap

Q1 2018

Platform Design/Prototyping

Blockchain Platform Selection

Smart Contracts Design

Q2 2018

Platform Design/iPaaS Integration

Smart Contracts Development

Platform Implementation

Data Population

Q3 2018

Smart Contracts development

Mapping of Customer EDI

data migration

Soft Launch

Q1 2018

Platform Design/Prototyping

Blockchain Platform Selection

Smart Contracts Design

Q2 2018

Platform Design/iPaaS Integration

Smart Contracts Development

Platform Implementation

Data Population

Q3 2018

Smart Contracts development

Mapping of Customer EDI

data migration

Soft Launch

Q4 2018

Data Migration

Training/Preparation

Q1 2019

Cut-over

Hyper Care/Transition

Meet Our Team

Peter Ludvigsen

CEO & Founder

Peter has 39 years’ experience in the shipping industry possessing a unique combination of Shipping Industry background (Liner Shipping, Operations Management, Ports and Container Terminals), with CIO experience, and IT Program Management along with entrepreneurial experience from having founded and managed Bestshore Business Solutions UK Limited for several years.

Extensive experience in E-Commerce, ecosystems and business dev opportunities in connecting Carriers ERP, Terminals TOS with landside operators

8 years combined experience as CIO for Maersk Line Europe Region, UASC, and Ports America

5 years’ combined experience with UASC initially in roles as Management Consultant, Interim CIO and later permanent Group CIO responsible for large strategic IT Projects and head of IT dept.

10 years’ experience in Head office IT Dept. at Maersk Line, Copenhagen and London in roles as Project Manager and Business Solution Mover responsible for full lifecycle of large enterprise IT projects. This includes 3 years’ experience in the role as CIO for Maersk Line Europe Region.

Extensive IT projects and Program management experience for large Enterprise IT Projects.

Managing Director of Terminal/Operations/Intermodal company (120 FTE) in Taiwan responsible for all operations of large North European Carrier including development of large Container Terminal in Kaohsiung.

Strong trend forecasting ability with proven track record in developing business ideas and solutions which materialize 4-6 years later.

Christian Gyntelberg

COO

IT Management consultant with Senior Management experience from several positions in A.P. Møller and DHL. Business IT and Shipping/Logistics Management focus. Shipping and Logistics process expert with extensive hands-on experience in leading both commercial and operational departments.

Proven track record in managing IT-driven change programmes through the entire systems lifecycle based on theory and practical hands-on experience.

Strong track record in digital transformation and Cloud solutions transition management.

Outsourcing and commercial vendor management expert – including SLA negotiations. Commercial and IT Program and Project Management at Enterprise level.

Management trainee in A.P. Moller – Maersk. Executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School.

Jesper Vedelsby

CTO

Jesper has more than 20 years of experience as a CTO and technical architect within the shipping, airline and energy sectors.

Jesper has worked with Peter Ludvigsen in Bestshore Business Solutions since 2004 and has a wealth of senior executive experience as CIO, Enterprise Architect and senior project manager, across three continents – counting large container terminals, global shipping lines, international airports and telecommunications companies among the clients.

Having graduated in 1994 with an MSc in Neural Networks, Jesper initially had roles as IT Systems Architect and hardcore developer. Since then, his passions have been IT management and assessments as well as architecting and integration of large complex systems.

Jesper holds an MSC in neural networks from DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen.

Franck J. Kayser

Captain Franck J. Kayser started his career as a cadet in A. P. Moller – Maersk A/S in 1982 and has served as Captain on different ships until permanently settling ashore in 1998.

Capt. Kayser has worked international shipping for more than 30 years for companies such as A. P. Moller – Maersk, CMA-CGM, TCC, UASC and NileDutch Africa Line.

Captain Franck J. Kayser started his career as a cadet in Maersk A/S in 1982 and has served as Captain on different ships until permanently settling ashore in 1998.

Capt. Kayser has worked international shipping for more than 30 years for companies such as Maersk, CMA-CGM, TCC, UASC and NileDutch Africa Line.

Capt. Kayser has held a number of senior management positions in the fields of: Maritime Transport, Marine and Port operation, Infrastructure development.

Technical Management, Ship Management, Mergers and Acquisitions.

Capt. Kayser is a board member of various shipping related businesses.

Capt. Kayser holds a Masters from Copenhagen Nautical Academy and has received additional education at INSEAD, IMD and Duke University.

David Green

Business Development Director

​David has 40 years of IT experience (Senior Management level for the past 17 years), working for both IT Service Providers (such as IBM, and an IBM Business Partner) and at Senior Level of internal IT departments.

Possessing a proven record of developing IT solutions, business processes, technical strategies, and skilled delivery teams.

Experience of Leading Commercial Technical teams with responsibility for bottom line profitability, as well as being responsible for internal cost centres delivering proven business values.

He has worked in the UK, South Africa, Belgium and most recently for a large Shipping Line in Dubai.

Rasmus Dalbøge

UX Designer

Rasmus is a UX/UI Designer with a passion for designing digital experiences that are both commercially effective and a pleasure to use.

Rasmus is currently working as a UX Designer for Widex A/S, where he is responsible for designing mobile apps that allow users to e.g. control their hearing aids.

Rasmus has experience creating intuitive interfaces across both web and mobile that provide a meaningful and satisfying user experience for the users.

Translating concepts into prototypes and interfaces that lead to user-friendly and useful products.

The Blockshipping board & advisors

Jesper Præstensgaard

30+ years in Shipping as CEO and Board Member, Currently MD of Humanostics and chairman of Unifeeder Board.

Among other executive positions:

Personal Assistant to the Chairman and CEO, Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Maersk Group

Senior Vice President, Maersk Singapore

Group Vice President, A.P. Moller Maersk A/S

Chief Executive, Asia Pacific Region, Maersk Line

Chief Commercial Officer, Hapag Lloyd AG

Non-Executive Director, New York Shipping Exchange, Inc.

Bo Hembæk Svensson

Bo is a seasoned Software Business Executive with 30 years of experience from the IT industry. He has co-founded several businesses within software solution development and served as a member of IBM European Software Advisory Board 2001- 2012.

Bo Hembæk Svensson is currently serving as Blockchain Business Development Manager at the leading Nordic payments group Nets A/S.

He is experienced in concept development, software-and project designs and has been engaged in “Digital Workplace” and “Digital Transformation”.

In recent years, Bo has been engaging in blockchain technology, and he is currently establishing a Blockchain Services Practice to drive development and usage of blockchain-based applications in the Nordics.

Bridget Cosgrave

Bridget Cosgrave is the Founder and President of Every European Digital through which she is active as an advisor, entrepreneur and angel investor for companies with Internet of Things (IOT), E-Commerce and Telecommunications platforms and services. Since 2016, she is focused on the Internet of Ships.

Ms Cosgrave acts as an Advisor to Visma consulting. She is a director and shareholder in Finnish Ukkoverkot OY, and in Every European Digital – an Internet of Things sensor and network company in Poland. Bridget is a seed investor in Blockshipping.

Ms Cosgrave was the founder, CEO, and Chairman of BICS. She has previously advised the CEO of INTTRA, the global e-commerce platform for container shipping; the Chairman & CEO of KPN, in collaboration with McKinsey; Etisalat, in collaboration with Booz; and the CEO of Omantel of Oman.

Ms Cosgrave has a BA Hons Queen’s University in Canada and an MBA from London Business School. and she is currently enrolled at the World Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden.

Ms Cosgrave is based in Brussels

The Blockshipping ICO service providers

Legal - Kammeradvokaten

LEGAL – KAMMERADVOKATEN/POUL SCHMITH

Kammeradvokaten/Poul Schmith is one of Denmark’s largest and leading full-service law firms. The firm has been the preferred legal adviser to the Danish government for more than 80 years.

Tanja Lind Melskens

Attorney, LL.M, Senior Manager.

Tanja leads Kammeradvokaten/Poul Schmith’s Fintech department, which assists clients operating in the area between the financial sector and the IT sector. The department advices Fintech start-up and large financial companies in areas such as crowdlending, equity crowdfunding, digital payment solutions, cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoins and blockchain technology.

Tanja advises companies on corporate law, finance law and financial regulation, including the interpretation and application of payment regulation, anti-money laundering regulation, securities regulation and the data protection regulation.

LL.M., Banking, Corporate and Finance Law, Fordham University, School of Law. Master of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Henrik Kure

Partner, Attorney

Henrik advises banks, pension funds and other financial institutions in all kinds of financing transactions.

Henrik also advises financial institutions and fintechs on financial regulatory matters, including regulatory capital, corporate governance of financial institutions, payment services and anti-money laundering regulation.

Henrik has published in Danish and English on a variety of banking and finance related legal topics, including a text-book on corporate finance law, which is mandatory reading in corporate finance courses at the leading universities across Denmark.

LL.M., Banking Law and Financial Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science. Master of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Norfico – Token model, smart contracts, PR & communications

Norfico is the first agency in the Nordic region to combine advisory services across communication, technology and strategy within fintech.

Michael Juul Rugaard

Partner & Co-founder of Norfico

Fifteen years’ experience as a strategic communications adviser for brands and public organisations such as IBM, Lenovo, Maersk Line, Nets, Teller, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, The Danish Ministry of Education, The Danish Ministry of the Environment, The Transportation Council, The Danish Technological Institute.

Press Manager and press spokesperson for Nets A/S and Teller A/S from 2010-2015.

Long standing experience as an editor and author of books, magazines, white papers, and reports (Click here for recent publications).

Master’s degree from the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen.

Kristian Thure Sørensen

Partner & Co-founder of Norfico

Kristian’s work within financial services has made him an acknowledged fintech thought leader and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

He is ranked on Fintech.Finance’s “Silver Power List”, Rise Global’s “100 most influential people in fintech”; Planet Compliance’s” Top 50 Regtech Influencers”; Instech London’s “Insurtech Power 100” and was shortlisted by PayExpo for the 2016“Payments Power 10”.

Kristian has 15+ years of experience with digital financial services and serves as strategic advisor to leading banks and financial technology providers.

Master’s degree in Communication and Psychology.

Thomas Berg von Linde

Senior Technical Advisor

Thomas Berg von Linde has a deep understanding of and genuine practical experience with blockchain technology and design of smart contracts.

He is an experienced application & integration architect with very strong skills in hands-on system development. He has many years of experience with business logic on large distributed systems focusing on integration.

Thomas has worked intensively with insurance systems and financial companies from 2008 to 2017, and he has gained strong understanding and knowledge of financial transactions and integrations. He has been responsible for large solutions in companies like DNB (Norway), Accenture, Nordea, Codan (RSA Scandinavia), TIA Technology, and Nokia Siemens Network.

MSc, Information Technology, IT University of Copenhagen. BSc, Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark.

Chainalysis – funding AML

Chainalysis

Founded in 2014, Chainalysis is the leading provider of Anti-Money Laundering software for cryptocurrencies.

With offices in New York and Copenhagen, Chainalysis works with global financial institutions, like Barclays and Bitcoin exchanges to enable every stakeholder to assess risk in this new economy. Chainalysis’ customers have checked over $15 billion worth of transactions using the platform.

Through formal partnerships with Europol and other international law enforcement agencies, Chainalysis’ investigative tools have been used globally to successfully track, apprehend, and convict money launderers and cybercriminals.

For the Blockshipping GSCP ICO, Chainalysis will deliver a detailed analysis of the source of funds of the bitcoin and ether raised during the ICO.

Coinify – Cryptocurrency brokerage

Coinify

Coinify ApS is an established global virtual currency platform actively offering solutions in Europe, Asia and other regions. Coinify’s services include: individual currency trading, corporate brokerage, payment processing services, and Enterprise solutions via Coinify API.

The Coinify team consists of strong backgrounds in payments, finance, risk, e-commerce, and compliance areas and experience in working with digital currencies since 2010. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is backed by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, SEED Capital Denmark, SEB Venture Capital and Accelerace. Recent industry awards and recognitions include: Best Practices Award for ‘Global Blockchain Financial Service Provider 2017’ by Frost & Sullivan; ‘Emerging Star – Fintech 100’ by KPMG & H2 Ventures; ‘Top 100 FinTech Europe’ 2017 & 2016; Nordic Startup Award for ‘Best Fintech Startup Denmark 2017’; and ‘#22 in Top 50’ Financial IT Pathfinder Ranking.

AmaZix – Community Management

AmaZix

The world’s leading community management and engagement firm.

AmaZix is a group of professional crypto ICO consultants who have technical expertise, are excellent at support and are led by an elite team of managers.

AmaZix has managed some of the largest ICOs in history including Bancor, BANKEX and Hdac.

Revenue Sharing Model

The GSCP platform issues two tokens: The internal Container Platform Token (CPT) and the external dividend token Container Crypto Coin (or CCC for short) issued on the global Ethereum blockchain for the ICO. The internal CPT token will be used by the industry players when utilising the platform for clearing and settlement of transactions between them. These transactions will relate to a variety of services and fees like ‘capital purchase’, ‘container exchange fees’, ‘terminal and depot handling costs’, and ‘fees collected by carriers.’

A percentage of the revenue generated from the transaction fees on the GSCP platform will go to a Revenue Share Pool. Through an innovative dividend model, the funds held in the Revenue Share Pool will be passed on to the owners of the CCC tokens in a way that rewards both short-term and long-term token owners.

The mechanics are as follows: Blockshipping will exchange the funds in the Revenue Share Pool, i.e. the internal CPT tokens, to US Dollars. Thereafter, Blockshipping will use smart contracts to conduct a Reverse Dutch Auction on the global Ethereum blockchain, i.e. an auction in which Blockshipping will offer the owners of the CCC tokens a price for their tokens. This offered price will increase at fixed intervals during the auction until the total amount of available Ether is spent.

This way token owners who chose to sell CCC tokens will receive Ether as payment for these tokens. After the auction, Blockshipping will distribute all the CCC tokens acquired from the auction to all the owners of external tokens on a pro rata basis. This way CCC token owners will be rewarded regardless of their decision to sell or keep their CCC tokens.

Infomation: 

Web: https://www.blockshipping.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HWi2Gw9VvUw1U5lZObNS2w

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Blockshipping

Medium: https://medium.com/@Blockshipping

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/blockshipping

Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3043786.msg31330662

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blockshipping/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blockshipping/

vk.com: https://vk.com/blockshipping

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.dk/blockshipping/

Github: https://github.com/Blockshipping

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