全球航运商业网络（GSBN）宣布，与中远海运集装箱运输有限公司（中远海运，COSCO）、东方海外货柜航运有限公司（东方海外，OOCL）和上海化工院检测有限公司（上化检，SICIT）合作，利用区块链技术提高化工货物运输的安全性。四家公司联合托运方、电器制造商美的集团，实现了利用区块链技术加强航运安全的首个行业概念验证。通过GSBN区块链平台，可设立一个全新的证书鉴定流程，以确保从源头上验证安全运输证书并保证其内容的准确和可靠。这将减少人为错误，提高货物运输安全性并加快整体流程，也便于存储在区块链上的鉴定证书在多方之间进行流转，更有助在未来进一步实现自动化验证。

        Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN) has announced a collaboration with COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCO), Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), and the Shanghai Research Institute of Chemical Industry Testing Co., Ltd (SICIT) in harnessing blockchain technology. The four companies have leveraged blockchain technology with shipper and electrical appliances manufacturer, Midea, to achieve an industry first proof-of-concept that helps enhance transportation safety in the shipping industry. A new streamlined process has been designed, by harnessing GSBN’s blockchain-enabled platform, to ensure that safe chemical transportation certificates and the information they contain can be verified from the original source, and that the information is accurate and reliable, according to GSBN. This is anticipated to reduce human error, enhance security of the cargo, and accelerate the process overall. It is also expected to facilitate the advancement in automated verification in the future, as well as the circulation of reliable certificate data stored on the blockchain among multiple parties.

block n. 街区 

美 /blɑ:k/ 英 /blɒk/ 

chain n. 链条

美 /tʃeɪn/ 英 /tʃeɪn/

blockchain n. 区块链

blockchain是一个合成词，由单词block和chain组合而成，最初用chain of blocks来表示区块链，直到2011年才用blockchain来表示。

Tips：区块链技术最初应用于比特币交易，具有去中心化、多方维护、时序数据、智能合约、不可篡改、开放共识、安全可信等特性。在实际应用中，区块链被视作一种去中心化的数据库以及一种分布式交易账本。在涉海领域中，其应用前景包括：基于区块链的海运证书无纸化，基于区块链的船舶报告、登记，基于区块链的船舶与海洋工程行业数据共享等。