Interesting I think about blockchain and shipping
is that initially there was attempted as a
turnkey solution almost, "let's make this
big, fantastic one ring to rule them all"
system, and everybody is gonna come and join,
and it's gonna transform the whole industry.
That kind of approach, which is very top-down,
I don't think it's gonna work, and I think
its use case is going to be much more narrow
and much more specific.
Also, the question of how humans and machines
interact, it's another mechanism.
What is done by automation and what is sort
of left to the human, because he has an advantage
in that area.
Based on that, there is five areas most affected
by this process, and where we see the biggest
change in the area of fleet management.
Whereas today, ships are basically, or most
of the time today, seen as individual units.
In the future, we have the opportunity to
go towards an optimization of fleets, not
only in their operation but also in their
role in the supply chain.
Yeah, maybe to turn it around quickly, I think
the biggest threat is if we do nothing as
an industry.
That's the real threat.
You know to use it as a buzzword, but not
to implement something.
So for me, you know, no action is absolutely
an impossible thinking.
The biggest opportunity I think is to add
value, is to enhance the industry, to maybe
push the speed of that announcement, and to
maybe use something that works in other industries
in the shipping industry that can really take
us forward at a quicker pace than maybe in the past.
