Disruptive Technologies Climate Change and Shipping
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CHAPTER 1
Shipping and distributed ledgers: Of paper, code and progress
Shipping and distributed ledgers: Of paper, code and progress
1.1 Introduction
Paper fills filing cabinets and empties forests. Because of its mutability, destructibility and propensity to get mislaid, it also on occasion gives lawyers nightmares. Electronics, by contrast, merely consume current. This chapter discusses how far paper can and should give way to electronics in the context of shipping law.