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Mika Lammi, the head of IoT business development at Kouvola Innovation. “O ptimising the various functions of the ship, starting with fuel con- sumption, can be improved a great deal via digitalisation,” says Lammi. According to Gartner, IoT and block- chain are emerging new technologies in the logistics context that will become mainstream within the next 5 to 10 years. 16 seatec 1/2018 “ These technologies can do wonders.