Maritime transport is considered to be one of the most liberal and open industries having really complicated and sophisticated market systems. This sector is prominent in international spread and intensive in capital.
It significantly contributed to
the development of international
economy in general and to economic globalization in particular.
Maritime transport is known for embracing almost all new trends in information technology and telecommunication in which they have become the basic features that characterize the global maritime transport sector and essential factors to enhance and upgrade the capacity of seaports due to maritime need to speed in shipping and the follow up of shipments across the countries as well as accuracy and safety in the completion of loading and unloading inside the ports.
This research deals with information and communication
technology and its application in lattakia port in which study the real condition of IT in lattakia port with an analysis of the information system applied in lattakia international container terminal (Lict) and its utilization in internal and operational processes and the possibility to benefit from it in lattakia port.
Based on the results, this research will offer some recommendations to accelerate the automation of all joints of work at lattakia port to achieve an integrated electronic management of the port of lattakia.
