Author(s)

Georgios Kapnissis, Eleni-Ekaterini Leligou, Georgios Vaggelas

Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.

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.

Block Chain, Shipping Industry, Digitalization, Unmanned Vessels

Kapnissis, G. , Leligou, E. and Vaggelas, G. (2020) Blockchain Challenges in Maritime Industry: An Empirical Investigation of the Willingness and the Main Drivers of Adoption by the Hellenic Shipping Industry. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 10, 779-790. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2020.1012055.