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Majority of shipping/trading documents are formalized under EDIFACT standard for example, this is the layout of Bill of Lading/Shipping Instruction, so called IFTMIN https://service.unece.org/trade/untdid/d04a/trmd/iftmin_c.ht...

One of the possible reasons for TradeLens demise is that they choose to ignore them and came up with their own data structures (Json) i.e. partners that are usually EDIFACT capable had to practically start from scratch to comply with TradeLens format.

At some point TradeLens realized that and started partially accepting EDI feeds, but it was too little, too late I guess.