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eLOGMAR-M Chinese European Forum on eLogistics

Shenzhen, P.R. China, 29-31/03/06

CONCEPTS OF A WEB-PORTAL FORTRANSPORT SERVICES CONSUMERS

WEB-PORTAL


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1st presentation

CONCEPTS OF A WEB-PORTAL FOR

TRANSPORT SERVICES CONSUMERS

Prof. Leonid Novitskis (Riga Technical University, Latvia)

E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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General Information

A Web portal provides transport services` consumers with advanced IT and

Mobile solutions to solve their logistics tasks.

It was created under eLogmar M project within the Sixth Framework Programme

(DG INFSO) of the European Commission.

www.elogmar-m.org

The transportation freight route China Mediterranean Western Europe Baltic

Sea CIS is selected for demonstration of Web based and Mobile services with

maritime & transport logistics applications.
http://www.elogmar-m.org/http://www.elogmar-m.org/


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Cargo Group Transportation Group

A Web-portal as Collaborative Tools

Actors from Cargo Group: Actors from Transportation Group:

Cargo owners;

Forwarding companies, as

representatives of goods owners

(manufacturers or buyers);

Traders; Exporters / importers;

The industrial companies and trading

houses, dealing with delivery system just

in time.

Shipping lines (deep sea and feeder lines,

ship-owners) and Lines Agents;

Block train operators;

Road carriers;

Forwarding companies;

Multimodal transportation operators.


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If you are an actor from Transportation group

You can:

Promote your services placing corresponding information at the Web portal. In this case youwill benefit from the use of Web portal by attracting new customers and as a result by

increasing container cargo turnover

Please, make a Registration and select My Services


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If you are an actor from Cargo group (Cargo owner, exporter / importer, trading house, broker

etc.)

You can: Calculate a start-to-finish transportation rate of cargo delivery in containers taking into

account terms of a Contract of sale / purchase;

Estimate expected transportation time from a point of delivery to a point of destination;

Select suitable Cargo carrier from Transportation group (shipping line, block train operator,road carrier, multimodal operator) taking into account two basic and several additional (soft)

criteria;

Estimate of carriers` service level;

Receive information regarding shipping lines, railway and road carriers services (Sailings,

timetables, characteristics of terminals etc.);

Receive necessary information via Internet (full set) and Mobile (restricted set) connections.

Please, select Initial Information or On-Line Transport Request


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Cargo Group

Forwarding

Company

Port Authorities

Transportation

Group

Deep SeaShipping Lines

Feeder ShippingLines

Port Container

Terminals

Railway

Container

Terminals

Block

Trains

Multi-Modal

Transportation

Operator


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Other Issues

Besides actors from Cargo and Transportation groups the other users categories can also

find useful information regarding maritime & transport logistics area:

Advanced IT&T solutions

Legislation & regulation

Education & training

Please, select Useful Information


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2 Information regarding solutions in transport logistics Initial Information for transport logistics

Transport logistics solutions*

1 General information

2 Information regarding decision-making in transport logistics

3 Links to adjacent Web-sites

1 General information

Overview of IT and Mobile Solutions withtransport logistics and maritime applications

Overview of EU regulations, internationalstandards and national laws

Overview of opportunities and computer-based solutions fortraining

* In accordance with

essential logistics

principles formulated in

Deliverable D4 the basic

transport logistics solution

will be demonstrated:

estimation by actors from

cargo group of a start-to-

finish transportation rate of

cargo and selection ofmore suitable actors from

transportation group, who

meet the required criteria


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Web-portal Central DB

(MySQL)

Users

Cargo group

Transporta-

tiongroup

InternetMobile

phone

Mobile

actor 2

PDAMobile

actor 1 Wi-Fi GPRS

Bluetooth


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Database Structure Model


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Mobile Access

Logistics

DB

Logistics Portal

(Classic)

HTML/PHP mySQL

Trans-

formed

to WML

PDAWAP

HTTP

PC


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PDA

Portal

(HTML/PHP

or

WML)

WiFi

GPRS

GPRS

Bluetooth

WAP

or

HTTP

Mobile Access


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Web-services

Special Web-service Freightrates

(three functions) was created to

communicate with railway portal

and to integrate the calculation of

Block Trains freight prices on

eLOGMAR-M tariffs calculating

algorithm.

Cargo group

1

DB of Transportation

Group Services4

Freight Forwarder

2

Transportation group

3

Block TrainOperator

ShippingLine

Road carrier

Railway DB

External IS

Web service

www.containeronlineshop.de


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Demonstration Scenarios

Ocean / FeederTransportation

Port ofDeparture

Port as the Point ofdestination

Railway

TransportationPoint of

Departure

Point of destination

RoadTransportation

Point ofDeparture

Point of destination

Railway

Transportation

Port of

Departure

Point of

destination

Ocean / Feeder

Transportation

Port of

Departure

Ocean / Feeder

TransportationRoad

Transportation

Point of

destination

Unimodal Transport

Intermodal Transport

1. Ocean / Feedertransportation

2. Railway

transportation

3. Roadtransportation

4. Ocean /Feeder &

Railway

transportation

5. Ocean / Feeder

& Road

transportation


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Live presentation of eLOGMAR-M follows

DEMONSTRATION OF THE eLOGMAR-M

WEB-PORTAL

Ms. Svetlana Vinichenko (Logitrans Consult, Estonia)

E-mail: [email protected]

Mr. Kestutis Staniulis (SONEX, Lithuania)

E-mail: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Documents

Web Portal Concepts