The purchaser can track purchase order status. Marine suppliers other than Unitor which join the system can still utilise Unitor's logistics and delivery infrastructure if they choose. Plans are in place to develop alternative trading formats, including reverse auction, quote serving and support initiatives. There are plans to add product availabilty checking, fleet management data, information access via WAP and Palm Pilot. There are plans to add information from other marine content providers, including market news and reports, shipbuilding applications, crew travel services, chartering and brokerage services and marine insurance.
Discussions are ongoing with other potential partners likely to participate with equity investments.
The management of the company will be responsible for business development, marketing and future technical innovation. Unitor, in turn, will continue to be open to working with other maritime e-commerce companies. Visma has already announced plans to work with maritime e-procurement company Arena in addition to e4marine.