Demo Project on satellite-based sustainable services

The EUROPORT project aims at providing sustainable services based on the use of satellite assets to end users involved in intermodal freight transport through European ports in order to optimize the intermodal transport chain. The existing high level service concept is of a system integrating existing systems and technologies with space-based assets to provide timely notification of relevant events in the intermodal transport chain, optimization of operations through the use of new technological solutions and through information exchange between the involved actors, and prediction of circumstances (weather and oceanographic forecasts for instance) to support decision and planning processes. The main users of the service are shipping lines, haulage companies and ports. The service uses several space assets such as satellite communication, satellite navigation and Earth observation technologies.