A lack of industry-wide electronic trading standards is a major handicap to shipping moving into a truly digital age.
However, moves are afoot within the container sector to join the dots.
“Global shipping is lagging far behind other industries in terms of digitalisation because technology has only been deployed in specific pockets. And even in those cases the data is often siloed, meaning it is not available to all key stakeholders,” said Al Tama, general manager of container and port solutions at ORBCOMM.
