WEB-BASED AND MOBILE SOLUTIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT
WITH LOGISTICS AND MARITIME APPLICATIONS

Eberhard Bluemel
Fraunhofer IFF
Sandtorstarsse 22, Magdeburg D-39106, Germany
E-mail: bluemel@iff.fhg.de

Leonid Novitsky
Riga Technical University
Kalku str. 1, Riga LV-1658, Latvia
E-mail: idc@balva.lv

Svetlana Vinichenko
Logitrans Consult
Kellamae str. 18-34, Tallinn-Maardu, Estonia
E-mail: logitrans@hot.ee

Egils Ginters
Latvian Intelligent Systems
Sveices str. 13, Sigulda LV-2150, Latvia
E-mail: egw@lis.lv

KEYWORDS
Transport Logistics, Web-based Solutions, Mobile
Solutions, Maritime Applications, Modelling.

ABSTRACT
Maritime transport is a rather fragmented sector with
a quite significant number of different players involved.
During recent years, substantial efforts have been made
to overcome this fragmented structure and to build an
integrated maritime research community. Large and midsized
logistics and transport organisations often consist
of many decentralised business units. The challenge is to
balance the benefits of decentralisation with group
optimisation and volume advantages. The Web,
WML/WAP and GPRS solutions are becoming a
corporate communication infrastructure for setting up
integrated information services and mobile collaborative
processes in logistics and transport with maritime
applications. In 2004, the EU-funded project has been
started, which is called eLOGMAR-M.