TITLE:
Blockchain Challenges in Maritime Industry: An Empirical Investigation of the Willingness and the Main Drivers of Adoption by the Hellenic Shipping Industry
AUTHORS:
Georgios Kapnissis, Eleni-Ekaterini Leligou, Georgios Vaggelas
KEYWORDS:
Block Chain, Shipping Industry, Digitalization, Unmanned Vessels
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.10 No.12,
December
11,
2020
ABSTRACT: In the shipping industry, significant part of the documents exchange still have the traditional paper form, mainly due to security concerns, despite the size and modernization efforts of this market. We explore the adoption of the blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies to address document exchange in a fast and secure way.