When we talk about food transportation, we should first talk about perishable products. Their handling requires special controls for temperature and delivery times, among other factors. There are also special licenses for transporting perishable goods. Special product inspections of goods at their destination and place of departure, and packing and unpacking, all need controlling and tracking.

Today, transportation companies have an arsenal of technologies that can help to address the control and tracking of products. Distribution centers and warehouses can control the arrival and dispatch of pallets with scanners, barcodes, and even by using robots.

Additional important facilitators are analytics solutions and the automation of invoices to track where an item was ordered from, supplied from, dispatched from, delivered to, and its arrival date. Image recognition, for example, can help register an item that has similar parts.

Without a doubt, IoT-powered sensors are a robust framework for these new technologies. These sensors can track temperature, humidity, and the tampering of containers for perishables and other goods. The devices issue auto-alerts to supply chain managers as soon as any given condition is violated so that food safety issues are immediately actionable.

It is at this point that blockchain technology can be of great help in tracking and registering products, and bringing trust and consensus between all parties with a single trackable shared ledger.