TradeLens was founded on a bold vision for global supply chain digitization as an open and neutral industry platform. This vision centered on the ability to enable true information sharing and collaboration across a highly fragmented industry globally.
Unfortunately, such a level of cooperation and support has not been possible to achieve at this point in time and A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM have announced the discontinuation of the TradeLens platform.
We would like to express our sincere thanks for those that interacted with TradeLens since 2018. We are honored to have been part of your digitization journey.
The TradeLens team showed up at IBM’s THINK conference in San Francisco last week and were greeted by over 25,000 business and technically-focused attendees – from 3,900 unique organizations and 121 countries.
If you attended, we hope you enjoyed the fun! But if you weren’t there to connect with us - here’s a quick recap.
Karen Oldfield, the CEO of the Halifax Port Authority joined Natalie Dyenson, VP of Food Safety at Dole, Roberto Mancone, COO at we.trade, and Marie Wieck, blockchain General Manager at IBM on stage for a session that focused on the digital flow of goods, information and money with blockchain. Karen discussed her organization’s ambitions and goals in becoming a truly globally connected port and the reasons they have joined TradeLens to support that ambition:
Mike White joined Marvin Erdly to discuss the latest advancements and news pertaining to TradeLens. Watch the video of Mike and Marvin's session.
Todd Scott, VP Global Trade at IBM, spoke to a select group about the questions shippers and NVOCCs have in digitizing their supply chains – and the reasons they are making moves to join platforms like TradeLens.
The team from IBM and GTD Solution Inc. also showed up to demo the latest from the offering and answer questions from conference attendees.
The TradeLens booth at IBM Think 2019
Those at the conference who were looking to better understand the TradeLens platform and how blockchain technology is being applied heard from Aaron Lieber and Ana Biazetti.
Check back here the 3rd week of February, where we will recap my session, plus others TradeLens is hosting, at IBM Think 2019 February 12–15 in San Francisco, California. If you're planning to be at Think, we’ll be at booth 535.
If you’re interested in learning more about Think or would like to attend next year check out the website.
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