DLT-BASED SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY Henríquez Larrazábal, Ricardo Daniel, Martínez de Osés, Francesc Xavier, Martínez Marín, Jesús Ezequiel International Journal of Transport Economics, 2021 This paper explores how distributed ledger technology (DLT), aka blockchain, might function as the technological basis for sustainable business models (SBM) in the shipping industry. More specifically, it examines the role that DLT can have in generating circular economies for information resources as well as inter-firm collaboration inside shipping.