Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
How can that be? By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!<p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ibm-maersk-tradelens-blockchain-alliance-cuts-shipping-times-40-percent/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ibm-maersk-tradelens...</a><p>Seriously though I believe the blockchain has always been hidden behind an API hosted by IBM (access to those who got approved and paid a fee), blockchain was an implementation/marketing detail and the whole thing could have been done with Sybase/MDB etc.  If they had promoted this as a standard/open way of describing shipping data it might have been beneficial.