Blockchain
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-based airport floor dealing with providers agency, Saudi Floor Companies, has mentioned it plans to implement a blockchain-based doc answer that permits it “to situation over 10,000 digital paperwork yearly together with licenses.” In keeping with the agency’s Ayman Alghamdi, utilizing this answer permits SGS to not solely simply confirm paperwork and licenses however to enhance prospects’ expertise as effectively.
Overcoming the Doc Verification Problem
The Saudi airports floor dealing with providers agency, Saudi Floor Companies (SGS), lately mentioned it plans to implement a blockchain doc answer at 28 airports throughout Saudi Arabia. In an announcement collectively issued with IR4LAB, a Saudi-based innovation-driven firm, SGS mentioned the answer generally known as Doc Certs blockchain administration answer will permit 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 permits 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 trade.
“We’re more than happy to be asserting this groundbreaking answer at LEAP 2023. This can be a historic second and it’s the primary initiative of its type within the aviation trade. SGS delivers providers to over 88 million passengers on 690,000 flights a yr,” Alghamdi mentioned.
Alghamdi added that the usage of the blockchain answer at Saudi airports will permit SGS to not solely simply confirm paperwork and licenses however to enhance prospects’ expertise as effectively.
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 instance of what he referred to as a “fruitful collaboration” between blockchain startups and established native corporations “within the adoption of recent applied sciences corresponding to blockchain.”
The CEO mentioned he’s hopeful IR4LAB, which is described as Saudi oil big Aramco’s “first blockchain know-how funding in Saudi Arabia,” will safe related agreements with different native corporations.
