Summarising
The package proposed was applied on the field for supporting statistical control in quality assurance process.
As first application in the harbour service area it provides very good results.
The necessity to continuously upgrade the reports requires highly integrated EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) structure and it is necessary to extend the number of controlled variables; so Web Technologies demonstrated to be an optimal approach.
The authors are working on parallel projects involving the development of distributed web-based simulators for other sectors in logistics (supply chain management etc.).