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The sceptics in the shipping industry are plenty as well, though. And it has been awfully quite around that pilot. Many wonder if the real challenge is really t

• jacobush 9y ago
  Back in 2000 I was on a team of eight, digitising a freight system. (Handling about 50% IIRC of all foreign air freight to and from Sweden.) For a "parcel" of goods, I counted 17 paper copies of the same shipping form, being sent to and fro. Back then IATA also used a custom text field format instead of a standard XML format I think they use now. So while this was a long time ago, I too expect shipping to be fraught with lots of weird edge cases.
• greghinch 9y ago
  > incompatible data formats and plenty of non-digitized data This is exactly what many with a cursory knowledge seem to think a blockchain will solve. Unfortunately, these are generally challenges people have to talk about and resolve via mutual agreement and compromise; you can't simply throw code at the issue.