People talk a lot of how archaic banks are, but I must say that the shipping industry is probably even worse. There are always a huge number of papers involved in each transaction (like clear payments, contracts, inventory, etc), so I'm sure the blockchain will make a huge difference for this business, and this move from Samsung doesn't surprise me. They are actually very committed to the blockchain, by first entering the asic industry, and will now actually use the blockchain technology to simplify their shipping department.
I don't think that much is going to change about this. there will still be a lot of paper being involved in shipping industry even if they all switch to the blockchain technology. the process is always the same too, the tools are changing and this change which would be usage of blockchain technology can make it so much faster and secure.
although depending on whether it is a distributed ledger or a centralized database it can be a very different approach. I am very interested to see how blockchain technology is going to be implemented by other areas other than currencies.