News / Shipchain may allay fears over data control as digitalisation spreads

© Stepanenko Oksana

Digitisation is seen as key to transparency, but concerns over control of data have left carriers, shippers and terminal operators worried over where it leaves them in negotiations.

Speaking at last month’s Maritime Day at the European Shippers Council, Lamia Kerdjourdj of the European Association of Terminal Operators, said: “Those that control the data are in control of the ’new oil’, and this can leave everyone blind, with terminal operators weak in the negotiating process.

However, the chief executive of blockchain platform Shipchain, ...