Everyone’s talking digital in shipping these days. Board meetings and conferences are full of people trotting out shallow truisms as they grapple to convince colleagues and investors they know how to deal with the challenges ahead.
Yet amid the cacophony of high-sounding tech speak, there is a widening gulf between words and the real world.
Shipowners labouring with thick paper files and creaking legacy technology is more the reality than the data-enabled future of which many speak.
