Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that it plans to start demonstration tests from April this year for its “Suiso*1 Platform”, a digital management system that the company has been developing to enable centralized hydrogen distribution management and support hydrogen trading both domestically and internationally. As the practical application of hydrogen supply and utilization moves forward with the goal of realizing a carbon neutral society, hydrogen trading is expected to increase on an international scale. However, in regard to actual hydrogen supply chain operations, hydrogen distribution is geographically and temporally extensive, including diversification of production sources and international transportation, and the players involved are diverse as well. As a result, the management of information on attributes such as sources of hydrogen production, distribution routes, emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) including CO2 in each process of the supply chain becomes highly complex. (....)