ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews major port Management Information Systems (MIS) and Information and communication technology (ICT) applications in ports focusing in particular on emerging technologies for terminal operations and management. Classification is based on the underlying technology or programming language used, for example file management, database management, C++, HTML and Visual Basic. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is essentially a computer to computer exchange of business and administrative documents in a standard electronic format between two or several organisations. EDI is also used to refer to the standards used for data interchange and to the operating systems that create, transfer and receive these data. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a generic term that is used to describe a system that transmits the identity of an object using radio waves. An RFID system offers high-speed and remote electronic identification of equipment. RFID technology has been used extensively in port operations for automatic data capture and storage.
