Despite accounting for about 90% of global trade – and therefore being at the core of worldwide economy– the shipping sector is far behind other industries in matters such as adopting new technologies. Still devoted to pre-digital, obsolete procedures, it has reputation of being slow and inefficient.
Nonetheless, more and more tech companies are coming to its rescue. As of the past few years, new tech companies – ranging from British logistics company Zencargo to Israeli business and technology...