The development of information technology is accelerating the digitalization of information exchange in logistics systems. Due to its nature, global reach, and significant role in economic processes, maritime transport is an area for the implementation of state-of-the-art IT solutions. These include shipping visualization systems based on AIS (Automatic Identification System) signal transmission used in national maritime safety systems, commercial applications dedicated to entities in the maritime economy, and applications supporting operational management at the level of basic logistics processes. This study is an attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues related to the use of shipping monitoring systems and the identification of IT systems used in land-sea logistics chains. The article focuses on presenting commercial applications based on the available AIS signal, addressed to maritime economy entities, including logistics operators, to improve management at an integrated level, as well as applications supporting processes within land-sea logistics chains.COMMERCIAL SHIPPING MONITORING SYSTEMS AND MARITIME TRANSPORT APLICATIONS
Abstract
Due to the advancement of the information technology (IT), the process of digital information exchange in logistics systems has lately become much faster. Maritime transport, due to its characteristics, global reach and an important role it plays in economical processes, is now an area of implementation of the newest and most advanced solutions in the field of IT. Some of the solutions are: systems of shipping monitoring based on AIS signal transmission, used in national systems of shipping safety; commercial applications dedicated to subjects in the field of marine economy; as well as applications supporting the operational part of the logistics procedures. This paper is an attempt at providing a complex grasp of the issues regarding the usage of maritime monitoring systems as well as an attempt at stocktaking, as it were, of IT systems used in land-marine logistics chains of supply. In this paper the main attention will be paid on presentation of commercial applications based on the available signal AIS, addressed to maritime subjects, including logistics providers to improve the management on integrated level and application supported processes in the land and sea logistics chains. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 3/2012