Digitalisation in Logistics and Maritime Transport

There is hardly anything in logistics and maritime transport that has had so rapid development in recent decades as digitalisation. Big data, cloud computing, blockchain, autonomous shipping, the Internet of Things, robotics and artificial intelligence are transforming maritime to something we have not ever seen before. At the same time, cybersecurity is becoming more and more important. In this chapter, we will give you a glimpse of logistics and maritime digitalisation and a view of the development in the next decade. The chapter is organised under the following sections: logistics and supply chain management, and intra-company and inter-company information flows. Thereafter, we will look at exchange of information at ports and intelligent transport systems, remote steering and autonomous shipping, and platform economy and customer applications.