Blockchain Technology in Maritime Transportation and Management
Murat Selçuk Solmaz, Murat Koray · Advances in logistics, operations, and management science book series · 2019
This chapter discusses using blockchain technology in maritime transportation and management. Blockchain technology is less than 10 years old. With a lot of its features, the new technology has the potential to solve many problems in many sectors. Nowadays, this potential attracts many companies and organizations to try the blockchain technology in their sector to find the solution to their problems, to increase their profit, and to decrease the time spent for doing their jobs. Like other sectors, there are many works in maritime transportation and management for using blockchain technology. This chapter introduces blockchain technology and examines current and future uses and applications of it in maritime transportation and management.