Huawei Unveils Smart Transportation Solutions and Showcases

[Shanghai, China, September 18, 2026] During HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, at the Global Digital and Intelligent Transportation Summit, Huawei released the China West Airport Group Global Smart Airport Showcase, the COSCO SHIPPING Logistics & Supply Chain Management Intelligent Document Recognition Showcase, and the Intelligent Construction Solution 1.0 for Tunnel D&B. These practical examples and technical solutions support scenario-specific innovations within the transportation industry.

With industrial and supply chains around the world being reshaped, a new round of technological revolution is underway. This is also driving profound transformation across the entire transportation industry. Speaking at the summit, Ma Yue, Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei's Smart Transportation BU, emphasized the importance of recognizing these trends, seizing the moment to upgrade digital and intelligent strategies, refine technical architectures for transportation and logistics enterprises, and optimize organizational forms and talent structures in the intelligent world. These initiatives are designed to enhance travel safety, boost management efficiency, cut transportation costs, improve service quality, and reshape the industry ecosystem. Huawei remains committed to strategic investment in digital and intelligent transportation. The company will team up with all ecosystem partners to drive scenario-based innovations, build a digital and intelligent foundation, integrate industries, develop talent, co-create standards, and share best practices for a more prosperous future.

Ma Yue, Vice President, CEO of Smart Transportation BU, Huawei

Eng. Silas M. Kinoti, Director General of the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), noted that through close collaboration with Huawei, Kenya is building digital and intelligent transportation capabilities spanning perception, analysis, and dispatching. This partnership will effectively ease traffic congestion, reduce accident rates, and stimulat economic growth. The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) project they are jointly implementing in Nairobi has won the The Pyramid Award 2026 from the World Transportation Sciences Academy. Moving forward, Kenya will continue to advance its ITS development and strengthen China-Africa cooperation in digital and intelligent transportation transformation.

Eng. Silas M. Kinoti, Director General, KURA

Ahmed Naeemi, CIO of Gulf Air, the flag carrier of Bahrain, highlighted the company's self-developed digital visualization platform alongside its four strategic pillars of AI. By embedding AI into its core operations, Gulf Air has eliminated data silos and achieved real-time, global management of fleet operations, finance, and passenger journeys. Gulf Air will continue its collaboration with Huawei to enable predictive operations in smart aviation.

Ahmed Naeemi, CIO, Gulf Air, the Kingdom of Bahrain

To overcome bottlenecks on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), Zhanna Akzhanova, CIO of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), proposed a collaborative model using federated information architecture. This approach allows national parties to maintain their own systems while fulfilling their roles. Thanks to a unified event model, cargo data is shared ahead of physical shipments, improving supply chain predictability.

Zhanna Akzhanova, CIO, KTZ

He Feng, President of China Southern Airlines Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., stated that the group is dedicated to integrating AI across all aviation production and operations, implementing 39 high-value use cases across nine domains. In partnership with Huawei, the company has developed applications like passenger flow prediction, air route network optimization, and recovery from irregular flight operations. Additionally, it has created China's first multimodal aviation safety dataset, which has successfully passed the authoritative assessment by CESI, significantly cutting manual analysis costs. China Southern Airlines Digital Intelligence Technology will continue working with partners to build an open industry data ecosystem and will further adopt AI to drive smart civil aviation's high-quality development.

He Feng, President, China Southern Airlines Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.

Li Haoyuan, General Manager of the Tech Innovation Dept at Sinotrans Limited, noted that Sinotrans empowers Chinese industries to go global through smart logistics and warehousing. Together with Huawei, it has advanced smart warehousing applications to enhance the efficiency and security of supply chains outside China. Sinotrans looks forward to collaborating with Chinese enterprises to maximize their strengths, jointly building global supply chains with complementary capabilities.

Li Haoyuan, General Manager, Tech Innovation Dept, Sinotrans Limited

Todd Sun, Director of Smart Transportation BU MKT & Solution Sales Dept at Huawei, explained that AI is evolving from a single tool to multi-agent collaboration, fully transforming the transportation industry. As AI agents take on core operations, it is essential to share knowledge context, unify business rules, and clarify collaboration mechanisms. To these ends, Huawei has introduced its Agent, Knowledge, Data, and Infrastructure (AKDI) reference architecture, which employs unified ontology modeling to eliminate AI hallucinations. It also uses a data flywheel to enable agents' self-evolution, accelerating AI adoption in transportation. Huawei will continue to strengthen the integrated compute, network, and storage foundation, working with industry peers to create a safe, efficient, and sustainable future for smart transportation.

Todd Sun, Director of Smart Transportation BU MKT & Solution Sales Dept, Huawei

Benchmark Guidance: Huawei and Customers Set New Models for Digital and Intelligent Transportation

At the Global Digital and Intelligent Transportation Summit, Huawei, together with China West Airport Group (CWAG) and COSCO SHIPPING, presented two showcases. Powered by the 4A architecture, CWAG has established a reliable and secure digital and intelligent foundation, fully migrating core systems to the cloud and implementing comprehensive data governance. This supports more than 35 AI algorithm applications, greatly enhancing operational efficiency, safety, and service quality.

Release of the China West Airport Group Global Smart Airport Showcase

In the logistics sector, the COSCO SHIPPING Logistics & Supply Chain Management Intelligent Document Recognition Showcase highlights intelligent document processing. Integrating multiple models and using AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to form a closed loop, the showcase tackles challenges like complex document recognition and inefficient, error-prone manual data entry. It delivers end-to-end automated document processing with 95% accuracy, establishing a scalable model for industry-wide document digitalization that lowers overall logistics costs. Next steps will explore advancements in intelligent scenarios such as route optimization and vessel-cargo matching.

Release of the COSCO SHIPPING Logistics & Supply Chain Management Intelligent Document Recognition Showcase

Huawei and China Railway Tunnel Group jointly released the Intelligent Construction Solution 1.0 for Tunnel D&B. This solution creates a three-tier digital and intelligent architecture spanning the tunnel face, project department, and enterprise. At the tunnel face, tunnel construction equipment is connected via a 5G and Wi-Fi 7 integrated bearer network. The project department uses Kunpeng and Ascend edge computing for business and data management and collaboration. And, at the enterprise level, a cloud data center integrates the Pioneer · Tunnel Large Model with multimodal sensing technologies to develop Tunnel Harmony intelligent, connected construction equipment and the Tunnel Hero AI Agent. This solution accelerates the evolution toward intelligent, green, and integrated tunnel and underground construction.

Release of the Intelligent Construction Solution 1.0 for Tunnel D&B

To date, Huawei has served more than 100 ports, more than 210 airports and airlines, over 300 urban rail lines, over 180,000 kilometers of railways, road networks extending over 200,000 kilometers, ITS projects across over 70 cities, and more than 200 logistics enterprises across the globe. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue practicing the "platform + ecosystem" strategy. The company specializes in developing transportation hubs, transportation networks, passenger/freight flows, and low-altitude air systems to establish a digital and intelligent foundation for comprehensive transportation and logistics. Huawei is committed to "driving mobility and logistics into the intelligent world," empowering smart transportation.