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First Agricultural Commodity Traded Through Blockchain

By The Maritime Executive

January 23, 2018

The first full agricultural commodity transaction using a blockchain platform has been completed by Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), Shandong Bohi Industry, ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro. The trad...

Maersk and IBM Expand Blockchain Offerings

By The Maritime Executive

January 16, 2018

A.P. Moller - Maersk and IBM have announced their intent to establish a joint venture to offer blockchain technology to the global shipping industry. The jointly developed platform will be built on op...

Singapore Boosts Maritime Digitalization

By The Maritime Executive

January 14, 2018

Singapore's Ministry of Transport launched its Sea Transport Industry Transformation Map (ITM) on Friday. Developed by industry groups including the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA),...

Blockchain Project Targets Seafood Industry

By The Maritime Executive

January 10, 2018

Environmental organization WWF and its partners have introduced blockchain technology to the Pacific Islands’ tuna industry, the first of its kind for this region, to help stamp out illegal fish...

The U.S. Navy's 2017

By The Maritime Executive

January 1, 2018

For America’s Navy, 2017 included the commissioning of a new class of aircraft carriers – the Ford class led by USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), sailors’ making the ultimate sacrifice fo...

ZIM Trials Blockchain Bill of Lading

By The Maritime Executive

November 20, 2017

Israeli container shipping company ZIM has conducted a pilot test of a paperless Bills-of-Lading based on blockchain technology, the first of its kind led by an ocean carrier. The test was conducte...

Crypto Coins Face Quantum Attack

By The Maritime Executive

November 4, 2017

The potential for block chain solutions and crypto coins to enter use in maritime industries has been increasingly discussed, but Australian researchers warn that that quantum computers could jeopardi...

Big Data Boom, Big Benefits

By The Maritime Executive

October 16, 2017

In the not so distant past, the torrent of data flooding the maritime industry had probably only set pulses racing among information and communication technologies (ICT) enthusiasts. However, in recen...

Beyond Borders

By Wendy Laursen

October 7, 2017

Around 1,200 men and women graduated from maritime academies in the U.S. in the first half of this year. The academies that trained this new wave of seafarers are increasingly looking beyond local b...

Engineers Not Ready for Blockchain

By The Maritime Executive

September 28, 2017

A new report published by The Alan Turing Institute and Lloyd’s Register Foundation identifies significant potential for engineers to use distributed ledger (blockchain) technology to improve sa...

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