Blockchains for Smart Ports
Résumé
Blockchain technologies are generating a craze for developing smart ports through the digitalization of their logistics transactions. Blockchain technologies ensure that these transactions are completely secure, which is crucial for restoring confidence in new digitalization procedures. The automation of this security is a key factor in improving the fluidity of port passage. But these blockchain technologies also give rise to concerns linked to the complexity of understanding them, energy costs, and uncontrolled speculation in the digital currencies needed to validate transactions, particularly on public blockchains. This chapter aims to demystify these technologies in order to better understand their real added value and to take stock of the obstacles that still need to be overcome to ensure their sustainable deployment on a large scale.