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Miles Varghese
November 27, 2018 at 3:50 pmAdopting an industry-wide, open blockchain will take at least 5-10 years. The industry is siloed and very competitive – let alone each liners’ customers around the globe. Many of which who are not tech savvy and do not care for technology outright.
TradeLens might be that platform, but until we see the entire industry migrating towards a more unified standard (hoping the consortium works out), we at OCTOPI (a terminal operating system provider) do not advocate blockchain to any of our clients first. Pay attention, but exercise caution and be weary in the early technical alliances you get into.
Let’s first digitize operations and get everyone off pen, paper, and excel, and then we can talk blockchain, IoT, AI, etc..
Great to see more terminal operating companies starting to join in like Modern Terminals.