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THE MARNET NETWORK, PROPOSAL FOR AN INTER-REGIONAL MARITIME INFORMATION NETWORK

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The Marnet mission statement is to provide a set of open and globally accessible information services to support logistic and multimodal transport operators. This is aimed to enhance the competitiveness of the European and Mediterranean maritime ports, and of the transport sector. To achieve this, the MarNet Project will set the basis for the creation of a multi-regional real time logistics information network. We can summarize the main results in the following way: There exist needs for data interchange between port communities. Those needs were grouped together around 12 services, which were the object of information systems developments and pilot operations The Marnet network has experimented different techniques and allows the standard data interchange without consideration of telecommunication means or of data formats. The use of Internet techniques allows us to set-up a distributed architecture based upon the concept of Marnet Node. A network like Marnet will find its economic balance if between 20 and 30 Port Communities are the potential users what means about a hundred of transport operators. Investigations and pilot operations made in the Marnet Framework have demonstrated the utility of interport data interchange. The use of New Information and Communication Technology (Internet, Java) together with by a low utilisation cost make data interchange easy and useful. Those conclusions were not obvious before the realization of Marnet, and in 1996, it wasn't proved that there were needs for such services and that those needs could be satisfied in acceptable technical and economic conditions.

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