The European STARS project participants travelled to Italy to participate in the Blockchain Acceleration Event, a triple-day training and debate. 

The conclusions of the session point to the fact that this new technology can bring very important advances in transport cybersecurity and multimodal logistics. It also opens up excellent business opportunities for SMEs in all these areas.

The 17 partners involved in the European STARS project met in Marina di Carrara (Italy) to better understand blockchain technology and its benefits to the rail and logistics sector. There were about 30 interventions at the highest level in which a set of current use cases of blockchain in the railway and multimodal sector by operators, administrations and other stakeholders were presented. Work was also done on potential new blockchain use cases to deliver more efficient, secure and resilient European value chains. To complete the session, practical and hands-on learning sessions were held on the network itself.

The overall objective of the workshop was to discuss and promote ideas for joint projects with ecosystem stakeholders (ports, multimodal cargo terminals, freight operators, customers, supplier industries, and research centres) that can subsequently use the STARS project's own blockchain network.

The event was organized by ERCI (EURail Clusters) and DITECFER (District for Rail Technologies High Speed, Networks' Safety & Security).