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Today a new consortium for the development of blockchain technology for the certification of seafarers has been presented.
Participants include Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL), Maersk Line, the tank operator Heidmar, the management company of the PTC Holdings crew, the charity mission of the marine personnel Mission to Seafarers and the C-technology suppliers. LOG, Navozyme and Hanseaticsoft.
The project was funded by the Lloyd & # 39; s Register Foundation, which, with the blockchain BLOC developer, founded Maritime Blockchain Labs.
"It aims to streamline and accelerate the processes that can be ruined by the lack of verification for security documentation, the management of paper certificates and the lack of access to validated safety certifications and training of seafarers".
It will focus on an end-to-end demonstration of a digital certification and approval process that uses a digital repository for verified crew documentation, training records and approval system.
"In particular, the focus will be on the STCW [International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers] issue of relevant certificates and supporting documentation from engineering officers located in multiple jurisdictions and approval of a maritime authority for embarking and disembarking the ship, "said the consortium .
The project participants hope that this will "allow individual mariners to manage their certificate archive from the original issue, so that maritime administrations can manage the renewal and approval between the various jurisdictions, for management of the crew for the management of seafarers for the crew of ships and owners of their crew's panoramic ships, certificates and specializations ".
Gary Pogson, of Lloyd's Register Foundation, said: "In such an international and distributed industry, it can be difficult to achieve robust mechanisms to provide a unique and accurate record of education, training and education. crew experience and this has the potential impact on safety.
"One way to deal with this is to bring together the many parties involved in the processes and build a system that works for them, creating trust across the network," he added.
Graeme Thomson, head of the Northern Europe management office in Maersk, said: "Blockchain has the potential to significantly improve transparency, authenticity and ease of working with crew certification; both for the owner / operator and especially for the crew itself Building and maintaining an intuitive and easy-to-use platform for the management of the crew certification will bring enormously significant benefits to all the parties involved ".
Deanna MacDonald, CEO of BLOC, explained why such a large number of project participants were needed.
"Blockchain is essentially a collaborative technology, and so we need to build with industry rather than taking a top-down approach, and therefore an essential ingredient for this project is to start with building a consortium that represents everyone in the chain. of value, from ship owners to seafarers themselves.
"Blockchain properties make it in a unique position to offer these value propositions: as a whole, the distributed digital ledger, timestamping (and hashing) to tamper with information and documentation and the network peer-to-peer verification tests enable a locally available and locally accessible respiratory system of verified and validated documentation. "
