It was a really interesting month full of hard work! We were developing the great project all this time and now ready to submit it for the Qtum Hackathon. The idea of Ice Chain project came to us a month ago when the team met the opportunity to participate in…

See the first part here. To prevent financial losses, the parties usually appeal to such instruments as a bank letter of credit (if there is no trust among them) and cargo insurance (if they beware of damages while transportation). Letter of credit (LC) is extremely common within international trade and…

One could say there are too many blockchain projects and ICOs related to logistics. We have conducted a survey of actual ICO market to clarify the features of Ice Chain. First of all, we did not meet any project with the similar business model. …

The Ice Chain team is permanently working on the product developing it to the final stage. QTUM Hackathon is a great opportunity to get some feedback and experience for our growth as experts in the field. In this article we’ll show you our developing processes, how our TDL prototype works…

Ice Chain deals with the sensitive cargo which requires the exact temperature conditions of transportation. There may be different types of sensitive cargoes. For example, perishable goods such as vaccines and other types of sensitive medicine or it may be expensive brands of alcoholic drinks. To deal with the field…

The Ice Chain team has been created by a synergy of like-minded people. There are 3 members for now and all 3 have experience in business and financial development, inventing and engineering, iOS and solidity smart contracts developing. Dan Kalinichenko, a fan of a deep analysis research, is a leader…

Ice Chain makes an accent on three significant problems of the supply chains: Hard to find out who is responsible for the cargo damage The company’s’ working capital gets trapped on accounts of their partners for the time of legal proceedings Mistrust on the markets which, on top of everything…

This is part 2, see part 1 here. As we showed in our previous publication, both transport operator and cargo owner meet many serious problems if they deal with a damaged cargo and can’t easily define who’s responsible for that. Therefore, they obviously need an instrument to make it clear…

We think it’s time to tell you something about how it works, but we prefer to start in a roundabout way, so… As a first step, a little bit of theory. Two things you have to know about logistics At first, in logistics, we deal with chains. The way from a manufacturer to a customer is the flow…