The Fòrum Telemàtic is a working group made up of representatives from all Port Community stake holders. It is tasked with defining procedures to simplify and speed up the information interchange processes between companies and the authorities involved in the maritime transport of goods.

It was first conceived of when, within the framework of the Port of Barcelona's Quality Plan, a Commission for the Guarantee of Information was created with a view to speeding up and modernising the Barcelona Port community by implementing and extending the Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) to all documentary processes required of the community's member companies and organisations.

By the late 1990s, the participation of private actors, the lack of transparency identified by end clients in the different surveys conducted, the sheer variety of systems in use, the exclusive focus on maritime transport with little to no regard for the commercial transactions required, etc., all pointed to a need to rethink the objectives in order to overcome the limitations of solutions geared toward the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system.

The creation of Portic Barcelona, SA was approved in 1997 as a set of information system services exclusively for the Barcelona port logistics community and its clients. The challenge: to facilitate and speed communication and the exchange of documents. The speed of goods clearance depends to a large extent on the agility of certain documentary circuits that are used for the exchange of over 40 different documents among a variety ofagents: authorities, shipping agents, forwarding agents, customs brokers, ship owners, etc.

In 1988, the Port of Barcelona's first Strategic Plan was drawn up, and the Steering Committee for Quality came to be known as the Steering Committee for the Strategic Plan and Quality.

To implement the new strategy, 8 working groups were set up in the different strategic areas. One of them, called the FÒRUM TELEMÀTIC, was to deal with the role of telecommunications and new technologies in international trade. The former Commission for the Guarantee of Information was dissolved and this replacement embarked on a new stage that retained the essence of its forebear whilst at the same time incorporating additional challenges and broader objectives.