Blockchain to revolutionize post-pandemic shipping industry, suggests Huang

Allen HUANG, associate professor of accounting at the HKUST and IEMS Faculty Associate, believes that the global shipping industry will need a revolutional increase in efficiency after the pandemic subsides, and the blockchain technology will be the key to such a transformation.  

Citing the example of TradeLens, a global shipping blockchain solution offered by IBM in collaboration with Maersk, he explains two major aspects in which blockchain helps traders and shippers increase efficiency.   

Read his opinion piece published on 16 April 2020 on Hong Kong Economic Times (Traditional Chinese only) . 

 


 

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