Maritime Digitalization: Opportunities and Threats

ISBN-13: 9786203929089 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str.

Karim Aboul-Dahab

Opis

The digital transformation is happening at a fast pace in all industries. And this transformation imposes challenges to the Maritime industry Stakeholders too. For instance, the increased level of automation on board of vessel will reduce the number of crew required on board that could potentially be more efficient in terms of costs and human error. However, the implementation this will require highly qualified seafarer. Increased automation of tasks that have traditionally been undertaken by the ships' crews, raises interesting legal questions across the whole spectrum of maritime law. The absence of clear regulation and legislation of autonomous operations increase the risk and raise a concern over the reliability and efficiency of these operations. This book entails to shed the light on the main challenges and opportunities the shipping industry stakeholders are facing to adopt the digital transformation in the maritime industry.

O autorze

Aboul-Dahab, KarimKarim has successfully completed his Doctorate Degree in Business Administration (DBA) in March 2021 at the Graduate School of Business at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. Karim's DBA dissertation addressed the efficiency of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) Weighting System produced by the World Bank.