This deliverable is a report introducing the State-of-the-Art analysis and the infrastructure benchmarking, together with an evaluation of requirements and challenges of the ports community in general and the proposed pilots. The objectives of the deliverable are firstly to study the existing platforms that are found in the literature as well as the platforms that are already provided by the end users of the piloting partners in the maritime domain, in relation to all the other domains that DataPorts is going to address. Secondly, to elicit and evaluate the requirements from port community and pilots for each aspect of the DataPorts project.