Huawei and Tianjin Port Group Jointly Develop Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 Solution

During MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei and Tianjin Port Group announced the collaborative development of the Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 Solution.

Centring on mixed traffic, the solution addresses the challenges of horizontal transportation automation at traditional terminals. It provides a cost-effective, highly adaptable, and innovative path for the smart transformation of global ports, marking a shift in port automation from operating in closed scenarios to more open collaboration.

The solution has evolved from conventional independent vehicle intelligence to a vehicle-road-cloud synergistic architecture, establishing a triple-intelligence system comprising a smart cloud, intelligent roads, and autonomous vehicles. It creates an efficient closed loop through collaboration among cloud-based global scheduling, roadside sensing, and onboard real-time decision-making.

The solution adopts a microservice architecture design based on cloud-native principles. The cloud-based brain performs global path planning, smart decision-making, resource configuration, and exception handling. The onboard system is capable of high-precision environment sensing, obstacle avoidance, and precise control, while the roadside sensing system detects surrounding conditions and synchronises traffic information. This architectural design helps ensure overall operational efficiency while maintaining the safety and reliability of large-scale fleets operating in complex environments.

Huawei and Tianjin Port Group jointly develop Intelligent Horizontal Transportation 2.0 Solution

Core Competitiveness: All-Domain Mixed Traffic with Global Optimal Scheduling

This solution helps customers achieve progress across several fronts, most notably in all-domain mixed traffic. It enables AI robots of transportation (ARTs) and manual container trucks to operate safely and seamlessly together. Leveraging multiple roadside sensors and cloud-based smart scheduling algorithms, the system identifies the driving routes of manual container trucks in real time and dynamically plans operational paths. This moves beyond the limitations of physical isolation traditionally used in automated terminals.

The solution also supports the coordinated management of large-scale fleets by allowing 300 vehicles, including ARTs and manual container trucks, to operate together efficiently. The cloud-based smart scheduling mechanism ensures system stability and efficient operations when large numbers of vehicles are working simultaneously. The solution also significantly reduces manual intervention, with the ART intervention rate dropping below 0.1 per cent. This helps resolve deadlocks commonly encountered at intersections.

Industry Benefits: Solving Mixed Traffic Challenges and Supporting Traditional Terminal Transformation

The solution delivers tangible benefits to customers. It allows traditional terminals to adopt digital and intelligent capabilities at lower cost, without the need for re-planning or large-scale infrastructure reconstruction. This provides a cost-effective, highly adaptable, and easy-to-implement transformation path for the many terminals worldwide that still rely on traditional manual container truck operations.

Chen Haiyong, President of Huawei Smart Port Business Unit, pointed out that 5G is no longer an option but a foundation for ports worldwide to become automated and intelligent. Traditional Wi-Fi and 4G cannot meet the demands of modern ports. For key smart port scenarios such as smart horizontal transport in mixed traffic, millisecond-level remote control, and emergency communications, 5G’s reliability, low latency, and high bandwidth are basic requirements. It serves as the digital backbone for stable and continuous automated operations and helps create a fully connected environment where data flows smoothly, and systems work together more effectively.

Looking ahead, Huawei and Tianjin Port Group will continue to deepen their cooperation, driving the application of 5G-A, AI, and other advanced technologies in ports to support the digital and intelligent transformation of the global port industry.

To date, Huawei has served more than 100 ports worldwide. Moving forward, the company remains committed to its vision of “driving mobility and logistics into the intelligent world”. Guided by its “platform + ecosystem” strategy, Huawei will match technology to specific operational scenarios, applying technologies such as 5G and AI to advance the digital and intelligent transformation of global ports.