Huawei Releases the Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 and Port Operation AI Agent

[Shanghai, China, September 17, 2025] During HUAWEI CONNECT 2025, Huawei successfully held its smart port roundtable, titled "Ceaseless Smart Port, Endless Cargo Flow." The roundtable aimed to enhance the integration of ports with advanced technologies like AI to boost operational efficiency and enhance safety control. During the event, Huawei released the Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 and Port Operation AI Agent. Both solutions work on accelerating industry intelligence by providing the port industry with a digital and intelligent foundation.

Chen Haiyong, President of Huawei's Smart Port BU, delivered a welcome speech to more than 100 global port enterprise representatives, experts, and partners. Chen noted that the port industry is facing challenges from supply chain volatility in 2025, while 5G and AI are accelerating the shift from traditional to intelligent operations. He emphasized that true port intelligence is not about stacking technologies—it is about building a closed-loop awareness-decision-process system centered on safety, intelligence, and high efficiency. According to Chen, the convergence of 5G and AI is driving three key transformations: evolution from experience-based decision-making to data-driven intelligent planning, an upgrade from single-point automation to intelligent full-link collaboration, and an extension from efficiency and safety improvements to intelligent operations and collaboration between logistics services and port economies.

Chen Haiyong, President of Smart Port BU, Huawei

Zhao Lei, Deputy Director of Digital Transformation Office at Tianjin Port Group, highlighted Tianjin Port's focused efforts in driving breakthroughs in core scenarios as part of its digital and intelligent transformation journey. Through the deep integration of AI and 5G industrial private networks, Tianjin Port Group, in collaboration with Huawei, has successfully deployed the L4 autonomous driving system. Zhao also shared its PortGPT-CV Large Model, which enables precise recognition of port elements and closed-loop management of safety risks. These innovations, he noted, are actively cultivating new forms of productivity for the group.

Zhao Lei, Deputy Director of Digital Transformation Office, Tianjin Port Group

Zhu Jianguang, General Manager of Shandong Port Technology Group, emphasized that Shandong Port's digital and intelligent transformation demonstrates a deep integration of technology into its core scenarios. Leveraging its extensive operational practices, the group has created the "Tianhe" Intelligent Port Solution, which is comprised of one technical foundation, seven core modules of the terminal operating system (TOS), six intelligent management scenarios, and one service platform. Combined with Huawei's technical experience in AI and cloud, the solution helps build innovative smart ports.

Zhu Jianguang, General Manager of Shandong Port Technology Group

Mohamed Eddoujaji, Head of Operational Information Systems and Production at Tanger Med Port Authority, shared the port's steady growth trajectory since its launch in 2007, noting that the port's container throughput target for 2023 was achieved four years ahead of schedule. Despite this success, Eddoujaji acknowledged ongoing challenges, including decarbonization, emission reduction, port congestion, and security risks. Looking ahead, he expressed hope for deeper collaboration with Huawei: "With the help of Huawei's extensive expertise in the port industry, we will focus on port digitalization, and use AI, blockchain, and IoT as core technologies to build a smart and green port."

Mohamed Eddoujaji, Head of Operational Information Systems and Production, Tanger Med Port Authority

Liu Jiantao, Vice General Manager of HIRI Future, emphasized that their core development philosophy is to root technology within port operations. At present, HIRI Future is going the extra mile to build a collaborative system that integrates its port foundation models with AI agent. This two-pronged system will automate the end-to-end operations of heavy cargo handling machines, significantly boosting precision and efficiency. In addition, it will provide intelligent dispatching solutions for terminals to streamline data flow and optimize resource allocation, thereby fostering an efficient, precise, and collaborative smart port ecosystem.

Liu Jiantao, Vice General Manager of HIRI Future

In response to common challenges faced by ports, including improving efficiency, mitigating risks, and achieving sustainable development, Huawei unveiled its Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 and Port Operation AI Agent at the roundtable. These cutting-edge solutions tackle critical bottlenecks through robust technological innovations, injecting fresh momentum into the industry's high-quality growth.

Official release of the Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 and Port Operation AI Agent

The Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 solution addresses the key challenge of mixed traffic from driver-operated and driverless vehicles at ports. Based on a vehicle-road-cloud synergy model, it employs an architecture centered on powerful vehicles and cloud platform. By combining precise vehicle-side sensing with cloud-based global scheduling, it enables both vehicle types to collaborate efficiently and operate safely.

The Port Operation AI Agent is built on innovative technologies. It uses large models to analyze complex scenarios and solvers to optimize decision-making, significantly boosting efficiency in intelligent production, security, and office operations.

Guided by a "platform + ecosystem" strategy, Huawei will accelerate joint innovation with port customers and partners worldwide. From initial R&D to real-world deployment and from customized solutions to long-term operations support, Huawei remains committed to supporting every stage of customers' digital and intelligent transformation journey. This joint effort is dedicated to overcoming obstacles, unlocking new growth potential, and building a more efficient, secure, and sustainable future for global port and maritime ecosystems.