Establishing a National Maritime Single Window in Small Coastal Countries

This paper researches and identifies the optimal model for establishing a National Maritime Single Window in small coastal countries, respecting their limited resources and thus building upon existing legacy maritime information and communications systems. Specifically, the authors analyze the current state of the available ICT capabilities in maritime sector of Montenegro, which is a representative of a small coastal country, and their integration into the general National Maritime Single Window platform operated on a national level by the Montenegrin Administration for Maritime Safety and Port Management. Based on this, a model for establishing a National Maritime Single Window in Montenegro is proposed, together with the system's cost-benefit analysis. The proposed model of National Maritime Single Window architecture provides a comprehensive network and two data centers layouts, development, deployment and exploitation, overall maintenance, and security requirements.