Digitalization of the Bunker Industry Has Been Delayed for Too Long: Toyota Tsusho by Ship & Bunker News Team Tuesday March 9, 2021 Digital products may be able to increase the efficiency of the bunker industry. File Image / Pixabay Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and changing working practices to adapt to it have led to the bunker putting off its much-needed push towards digitalization, according to Japan's Toyota Tsusho. "Amid the rising necessity for workstyle reforms and the building of non-contact and non-face-to-face logistics systems toward productivity improvement and the maintenance and strengthening of international competitiveness, the delay of digitalization in the bunkering industry has become an issue," the company said in a statement on its website last week.