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Re:Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled... by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:29AM (#33802033)
> had there been a will for "collaboration" (and in many cases there should be)

The problem is, collaboration is seen by many as a danger to their business: common standards make it easier for clients to, sorry for the pun, jump ship; transparency / auditability makes it harder to hide internal fuck-ups and as a result provide an incentive for customers to jump ship.

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Re:Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled... by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:32AM (#33802080)
International shipping involves multiple countries by definition, as well as ports, ships, containers, etc. How could it not also involve "collaboration" ?
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Re:Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled... by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:34PM (#33804267)
Why do you think that e.g. Deutsche Bahn is active in sixty countries with their logistics subsidiary DB Schenker? Or why Deutsche Post subsidiary DHL is active virtually worldwide? Or why Amazon has shifted a large amount of parcels to their own logistics networks instead of using the national shipping services like USPS?

Vertical integration offers way better profits than cooperating with intermediaries, and the ultra large logistics giants want to make as much profit as possible.

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