Internet has been acknowledged as a source of competitive advantage. For development countries as Brazil, the Net can bring new possibilities for companies and for national economy insertion in global markets. For this reason, Internet strategic use was analysed in a Brazilian Port. This research aims to understand how a company of the ports industry in Brazil can obtain competitive advantages through Internet-based applications. For this purpose, the following questions should be answered: (i) How a Brazilian company can use Internet-based applications to establish differentials from its competitors in ports industry?(ii) How the characteristics of the Brazilian environment like economic instability, laws, taxes, workforce, creativity biased on-line strategies of this company? In order to clarify these points, concepts about strategy and information technology were analysed. The applied method was case study, performed in a container terminal in the Brazilian Port in Santos, which had used Internet intensively in its operations.
Internet; logistics; value system; e-business
