To Antwerp the Blockchain technology is being experienced for the management of the container in the harbour area



The Harbour Authority of Antwerp, through the T-Miming start-up, has under consideration uses it of the Blockchain technology, based on logic of the distributed database, in order to inside return the management of the container of the Belgian port more efficient and sure. The initiative has lead to the start of a specific project pilot who currently involves a limited number of operators.

Remembering that in order to carry out the single transfer of a container from a point to another of the port the involvement of beyond 30 subjects for a medium total of 200 contacts carried out via email, telephone is often necessary and also fax, the managing director of T-Mining, Nico Wauters, have explained that scope of the society is to reduce lessened this exchange of information and to return the activity surer: "this start-up of Antwerp - it has announced - has developed a solution for very a problematic note inside of the port. When a container arrives in port - it has specified - to the terminal is taken in cargo from a hauler or a shipper. In order to guarantee that the container goes to the right person it uses a code pin data. However the code pin data is transmitted to a series of subjects and this naturally does not happen without risk. Some malicious user one could simply copy the code pin data and this could certainly cause great problems".

"Therefore - it has continued Wauters - we have developed a very sure solution. Currently when we want to transfer a valuable, generally in order to carry out the transfer we make use of a reliable intermediary. For example, when a house is wanted to be sold, the notary public is not only charged to elaborate all the documentation, but he moreover assures that the money arrives on the just bank account and that meanwhile the buyer has full load title of the property, without some disagreeable surprise for both the parts. However, obviously, this intermediary does not work free of charge and moreover this ulterior step determines other delays".

"With our platform blockchain - it has emphasized Wauters - the reception of a determined container is granted only to the just hauler, without some possibility that the procedure is violated. Moreover our platform blockchain uses a distributed net so that the transaction can proceed only if there is the consent of all the parts participants, excluding every attempt of swindle or undesired manipulations".

Wauters has explained that currently the project pilot involves terminalista society PSA, the company of navigation MSC and a hauler: "we want to verify - it has specified - if in the practical one all it works well". The managing director of T-Mining has announced that the society has also an office to Singapore that is working in order to introduce the solution developed from the company in the port of the Asian city state.