Digital symbiosis: the engine powering sustainable shipping

© Paiboon Subsermtawee

In the biological world, many species have symbiotic relationships, mutual dependencies, with other species to increase their ecological fitness. We maintain that there can be a similar symbiotic relationship between digitalisation and collaboration in business and society.

Neither can exist without the other because they co-determine economic fitness. Furthermore, the combination can drive significant economic and societal capital creation. Successful partnerships co-evolve their collaboration through cooperative digitalisation to contribute to an emerging era of digital symbiosis.

We assert that all industries need ...