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The existing systems face significant challenges in integrating trade documentation data, such as taxes, value-added costs, and resource monitoring data, during transportation across port logistics. Managing and processing these integrated data streams remains challenging, leading to operational inefficiencies, high latencies, and increased costs. To address these challenges, a Hyperledger-enabled blockchain framework is proposed, which introduces data segmentation to resolve management issues, utilizing sidechains to store company-specific data. Summarized results from the sidechains are periodically committed to the main blockchain. The framework enhances security through consensus algorithms and ensures data integrity using cryptographic techniques. This framework guarantees that data transferred from sidechains to the main blockchain remains accurate and tamper-proof. This also ensures full back-traceability from drilling sites to end users. 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