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One of the main objectives of the EU funded project EURIDICE is the development of a platform with distributed business process intelligence relying on the vision of intelligent cargo. The final paper will provide a short overview how the concepts of mobile agents are utilized for fulfilling this vision, and how the agents are organized. By using existing or new information and communication infrastructures (e.g. GPS, Galileo, UMTS) it is possible to define a uniform Information triple Item (time, place and status) for all transported goods in Europe. The use of these data limits itself currently, nevertheless, in primarily to easy 'tracking and tracing'-functionalities. In the project EURIDICE, based on this information, added value services should be defined, allowing an individual control of the transport goods in the European home market. For an effective implementation the data acquisition and decision-making should result to a very great extent on mobile devices, being able to react on one hand without delays to logistic events and on the other hand to reduce communication expenditures. The mobile devices within EURIDICE therefore offer services for accessing different data by any authorized party in the logistics chain utilizing the platform built around these mobile services for integrating them with legacy systems and orchestrating them to build whole new logistic processes. To fulfill these requirements two main concepts of the project are SOA in combination with web services and mobile agents. In this paper we will concentrate on a possible architecture for the mobile services using mobile agents, modern mobile communication infrastructures and the capabilities of today's available devices. We would like to discuss some design decisions for the mobile application running on different mobile devices, installed within containers or cargo items. The EURIDICE agent application architecture was designed to ensure flexibility, scalability, robustness and maintainability in and mobile, resource-limited environment.