
Ground Handling Firm to Use a Blockchain Document Solution at 28 Saudi Airports

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11 February 2023 03:09, UTC
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-based airport floor dealing with providers agency, Saudi Floor Companies, has stated it plans to implement a blockchain-based doc resolution that enables it “to situation over 10,000 digital paperwork yearly together with licenses.” In response to the agency’s Ayman Alghamdi, utilizing this resolution permits SGS to not solely simply confirm paperwork and licenses however to enhance prospects’ expertise as properly.
Overcoming the Doc Verification Problem
The Saudi airports floor dealing with providers agency, Saudi Floor Companies (SGS), lately stated it plans to implement a blockchain doc resolution at 28 airports throughout Saudi Arabia. In an announcement collectively issued with IR4LAB, a Saudi-based innovation-driven firm, SGS stated the answer often called Doc Certs blockchain administration resolution will enable it “to situation over 10,000 digital paperwork yearly together with licenses.”
Commenting on the bottom dealing with providers agency’s plans to make use of an answer that allows it to beat the worldwide problem of verifying paperwork, Ayman Alghamdi, the Vice President of human sources at SGS characterised the announcement of the settlement as a historic second for the aviation business.
“We’re more than happy to be saying this groundbreaking resolution at LEAP 2023. This can be a historic second and it’s the primary initiative of its type within the aviation business. SGS delivers providers to over 88 million passengers on 690,000 flights a 12 months,” Alghamdi stated.
Alghamdi added that using the blockchain resolution at Saudi airports will enable SGS to not solely simply confirm paperwork and licenses however to enhance prospects’ expertise as properly.
The Collaboration Between Blockchain Startups and Established Firms
For his half, Majd Jamal Alafifi, the co-founder and CEO at IR4LAB characterised the settlement with SGS for example of what he known as a “fruitful collaboration” between blockchain startups and established native corporations “within the adoption of recent applied sciences resembling blockchain.”
The CEO stated he’s hopeful IR4LAB, which is described as Saudi oil large Aramco’s “first blockchain expertise funding in Saudi Arabia,” will safe comparable agreements with different native firms.