Will Samsung’s Blockchain Strengthen the Security for International Trade and Commerce?

Colleagues, with the goal of reducing shipping costs by 20% while increasing the security of imports and exports, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics is building a building a distributed ledger system (DLS) to track international trade. Samsung is partnering with the Samsung is partnering with Ktnet, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries , the Korea Customs Service, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, IBM Korea and Hyundai Merchant Marine. South Korea is surely an early adopter of cryptocurrency tokens, exchanges and mining. This initiative represents a major test as the country seeks to extend Blockchain technology to international trade via a private-public sector consortium. Simultaneously the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) intends to increase the number of Blockchain pilot projects in 2018 from six to twelve. While the financial services sector is the target of most high profile cybercrime, international trade and shipping is a “high value” target for opportunistic cyber criminals. We will report in late 2018 on the implementation of this project.

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