Huawei Releases Smart Plan and Smart Security Solutions for Ports to Advance All-Domain Intelligence

[Shanghai, China, September 16, 2026] During HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei unveiled its Smart Plan and Smart Security Solutions for Ports at the roundtable AI to Supercharge Smart Port Advancement. Powered by large models, agents, and Huawei's V-Turbo platform, the solutions transform port production planning and security management, helping ports advance from "single-point intelligence" to "all-domain intelligence."

Bill Wang, Director of Huawei's Industry ICT Solution Development Mgmt Dept, stated in his opening remarks that Huawei serves more than 100 port customers worldwide, leveraging 5G and AI to advance port automation and global intelligence. He noted that smart ports require more than just equipment automation; they also depend on comprehensive collaboration, intelligent decision-making, and greener, more efficient operations. To address the challenge of single-point intelligence struggling to drive up efficiency across the board, Huawei has partnered with organizations such as Shandong Port and Tianjin Port to develop a unified intelligent port architecture, which extends AI across the upstream and downstream supply chains.

Bill Wang, Director, Industry ICT Solution Development Mgmt Dept, Huawei

Feng Xiaojian, Deputy Director of the Three Gorges Navigation Authority, shared insights on AI-enabled inland waterway transportation. He stated that the industry is shifting from quantitative digitalization toward qualitative intelligence, marked by three major transitions: from reviewing post-event video footage to making pre-event predictions, from showcasing technology to delivering practical application, and from direct adoption to solutions tailored to industry requirements. To advance this transformation, the Three Gorges Navigation Authority has developed a safety supervision agent guided by the philosophy of "smaller breakthroughs, deeper implementation, and greater achievements." The agent supports early analysis, proactive warnings, and intelligent control. Feng highlighted four key factors for successful AI implementation: systematic thinking, demand-driven approaches, foundation consolidation, and data enablement. He also expressed a desire for greater industry collaboration to accelerate the widespread adoption of AI.

Feng Xiaojian, Deputy Director, Three Gorges Navigation Authority

Zhu Jianguang, General Manager of Shandong Port Technology Group, shared the group's pioneering AI applications. In 2025, Qingdao Port was designated as China's first AI application pilot base in the transportation sector, identifying 80 AI application scenarios across 10 distinct categories. Today, AI is deployed across the port's production, safety management, and daily operations. For example, an AI-powered belt conveyor monitoring system detects misalignment, foreign objects, and material blockages with an accuracy rate of 99%. Meanwhile, the berth allocation agent integrates 132 parameters to generate optimal berthing plans in just 30 seconds. Visual recognition of ton bags lifted by portal cranes has also fully automated tallying. According to Zhu, the group is committed to openness, collaboration, and shared success. It will collaborate with universities, research institutions, and industry leaders like Huawei to develop demonstration scenarios and world-class solutions for smart and green ports.

Zhu Jianguang, General Manager, Shandong Port Technology Group

Daniel Medou MOLLE, Chairman of Innovendi smart port project, shared a vision for the digital transformation of the Port of Douala, Cameroon's core hub. As a key hub for China-Africa trade, the Port of Douala is constrained by limited space, shallow waterways, and saturated capacity. Its traditional operational model has reached its limits, making intelligent transformation an urgent priority. The port is advancing operation automation and centralized information management. To overcome technical bottlenecks, Innovendi has entered into a partnership with Huawei to deploy IoT devices and establish a robust AI data foundation, developing a modern smart port serving the region.

Daniel Medou MOLLE, Chairman, Innovendi smart port project

Zhao Lei, Deputy Director of the Digital Transformation Office at Tianjin Port Group, shared the group's experience in developing a next-generation intelligent horizontal transportation system. Back in 2021, Tianjin Port pioneered the large-scale commercial deployment of autonomous driving, establishing a benchmark for automated terminal operations. To address four critical challenges—spatial constraints, complex mixed traffic, intricate scheduling, and intersection collisions—Tianjin Port partnered with Huawei to adopt an integrated architecture with "powerful cloud platforms and vehicles." This approach has helped transform mixed traffic operations from independent vehicle intelligence to global intelligent planning. The partnership has delivered four major breakthroughs: precise sensing of manual tractor trailers, cloud-based global scheduling, AI-powered adaptive signal lights, and full-process integration. Crucially, the intelligent horizontal transportation solution can also be adapted to conventional container terminals worldwide without requiring large-scale site reconstruction, helping ports go intelligent with lower capital investment.

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

Yan Lei, General Manager of Implementation and Delivery at Nezha Technology, shared the company's cutting-edge practices in intelligent transformation and AI innovations. Yan noted that, by the end of 2025, Shanghai International Port Group's (SIPG) container throughput surpassed 55 million TEUs, underpinned by remarkable efficiency gains from intelligent applications. Smart gate processing times were reduced from 2 minutes to just 18 seconds. In addition, Huawei's advanced F5G technology enabled the establishment of a remote control center, allowing port machinery to be operated remotely and reducing daily commuting time by 40 to 50 minutes per trip. SIPG has launched the future-ready "Lotus Seat" agent platform to upgrade its AI Terminal Operating System (TOS) and deploy advanced applications, including mechanical maintenance and an integrated business-finance agent.

Yan Lei, General Manager of Implementation and Delivery, Nezha Technology

Gu Shengqun, Director of the Technology Innovation Center at Chenglingji Port, introduced an innovative logistics model integrating ports, fairways, locks, warehouses, cargo, vessels, vehicles, and railways. To address persistent challenges like high logistics costs and imbalances in transportation structures, Hunan Province has established a port-centric integrated multimodal transport service system. The system consolidates water, road, and rail transport capacity, as well as essential data from fairways, locks, and ports. It supports unified scheduling of eight multi-stage locks across the province, enables port-lock coordination, and facilitates seamless data connectivity with SIPG and Jiangsu Port Group. Looking ahead, the port plans to partner with Huawei to develop a data-driven logistics model capable of automatically generating logistics solutions.

Gu Shengqun, Director, Technology Innovation Center, Chenglingji Port

"The true value of AI lies not only in improving internal efficiency, but also in strengthening supply chain resilience and enabling new service models," said Chen Haiyong, President of Huawei's Smart Port BU, in his closing remarks. He believed that this goes beyond a mere technological upgrade—it is a transformation of operational models. He added that building smart ports is never a solo performance by a select few, but a grand symphony for the entire industry. Huawei will continue to open up its AI, computing, and cloud capabilities and work with customers and partners to build safer, more efficient, and greener ports.

Chen Haiyong, President, Smart Port BU, Huawei

At the roundtable, Chen Haiyong, together with seven guests, unveiled two innovative solutions:

From "Experience-Dependent" to "Data-Driven": Smart Plan Solution for Ports

Huawei's Smart Plan Solution for Ports adopts a plugin-based, hierarchical agent architecture to support the end-to-end execution of the "5+1" planning framework. At its core is a full-element scheduling agent that coordinates operational plans for five key domains: pilotage, berthing, quay cranes, container yards, and stowage. Together, these capabilities cover the entire production planning lifecycle. Powered by Huawei's V-Turbo platform, the solution converts manual scheduling expertise and business constraints into model algorithms, enabling the automatic generation of globally optimized operational plans. This reduces planning time from hours to minutes, achieves a plan acceptance rate of more than 90%, and extends the planning horizon from three days to one month, significantly improving resource utilization and operational efficiency.

From "Post-Event Tracing" to "Proactive Control": Smart Security Solution for Ports

Huawei's Smart Security Solution for Ports, powered by a computer vision (CV) model, accurately identifies personnel, vehicles, and cargo from elevated vantage points above 20 meters and across multiple viewing angles. Trained on a dataset containing more than one million port-specific samples, the solution achieves recognition accuracy of over 95% and boasts self-evolution capabilities, improving its accuracy through ongoing use. It shifts security management from passive post-event tracing to proactive prevention and real-time intervention, substantially mitigating operational risks.

Huawei releases the Smart Plan and Smart Security Solutions for Ports

To date, Huawei has served more than 100 ports worldwide. Moving forward, the company will continue to advance its "platform + ecosystem" strategy, guided by its vision of "driving mobility and logistics into the intelligent world." By working closely with customers and partners, Huawei aims to build a new smart port and shipping ecosystem and accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of ports worldwide.