In collaboration with the Rice, Unruh, Reynolds Company of Philadelphia, PA, Tekquest developed and launched the maritimetools.com site. Maritimetools.com will focus on providing the bulk shipping industry with online management tools. The inaugural of this effort is the PortFolio application suite.

PortFolio provides shipping agents, charter parties and vessel owners with the ability to use a browser to track vessel position and port activities from the originating port to the final destination. Port Log and Statement of Fact reports can be generated shortly after sailing for near real-time status. Custom reports can either printed or downloaded in multiple exportable formats. A Port and Terminal application provides customers with port, terminal and dock information that is updated daily by port agencies based internationally.

The maritimetools.com site and PortFolio were built using ColdFusion 5, MS SQL Server, Crystal Reports Server and Flash. Data is entered and maintained online by RUR personnel in field offices at all the major ports in the U.S. Clients either using the online reporting facilites of PortFolio or receiving copies of those reports include British Petroleum (BP), British Gas (BG), Shell/Texaco and Exxon Mobile. The site has been in production since April 2001.