On October 14th, the "2026 Smart Port Technology Exchange Conference" hosted by the China Port Association was held in Tianjin. As a cutting-edge technology case, the Dalian Container Terminal "Terminal Resource Coordination Intelligent Platform Based on AI+Global Spatiotemporal Inference" developed by Liaogang Group was officially released at the conference, providing a practical and replicable example for the construction of smart and green ports in China.
As the first DCMM (Data Management Capability Maturity) Level 4 certified enterprise in the domestic port industry, Liaogang Group's data governance and application are at the leading level in the industry. It has won the honor of innovative application of data elements from the Ministry of Transport and the National Data Bureau four times, and is also the only port enterprise selected as an excellent case of dual development cooperation by the Cyberspace Administration of China. In 2026, it was successfully approved as one of the first data element innovation application laboratories in Liaoning Province and listed as a typical case of artificial intelligence in the country by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The intelligent platform for dock resource coordination based on AI+global spatiotemporal inference is one of the important achievements of Liaogang Group's AI construction. The platform research and development follows the AI+port architecture system of "digital intelligence base - intelligent brain - intelligent application", and its "work balancer invention patent" has been officially authorized by the China National Intellectual Property Administration. Unlike systems developed specifically for a single terminal, this platform's business constraints and operational parameters can be flexibly configured, innovatively reconstructing the production organization mode of the terminal and promoting terminal operations from single point local optimization to global overall optimization. It has the foundation for industry replication and promotion.
From the perspective of implementation and operation, the value of the platform has been transformed into quantifiable operational results, mainly reflected in three aspects: customer service, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and operational management.At the customer service level, the efficiency of single machine operations at the terminal has increased by 4.5%, the rate of ships arriving and berthing has increased by 2%, and the duration of ship berthing and container truck operation in the port has both decreased by 4%. This effectively reduces the waiting time for ships and container trucks, and significantly improves the operational experience of market entities such as shipping companies and transportation fleets. At the level of cost reduction and efficiency improvement, under the unified scheduling of AI, various production equipment at the terminal is more fully utilized, achieving a 1.7% -10.2% increase in single shift operation volume. The energy consumption of shore bridges and yard bridges is reduced by 5% and 7% respectively, while ensuring operational capacity and reducing production energy consumption, achieving a two-way balance between quality improvement and efficiency improvement and green cost reduction. At the operational management level, there has been a profound transformation in the working mode of terminal dispatch positions. Staff are no longer tired of dealing with various on-site emergencies, and the focus of work has shifted to global production planning, risk assessment, and pre planning, fully unleashing the decision-making value of management positions and promoting the upgrading of the overall terminal operation management mode.
Feng Xiaorui, the manager of the Operations Department of Dalian Container Terminal Co., Ltd., said: "Smart ports are not just a simple stack of high-end hardware. Hardware is like the hands and feet of a port, and the AI resource coordination platform is the intelligent brain of the terminal. Because the core of this platform lies in algorithms and operational logic, rather than relying on specific expensive hardware, it has strong universality and promotional value. ”
Text/Photo by Liu Zhibin and Zang Yongliang/Provided by Liaogang Group
