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Beibu Gulf Port launches waterway AI model, extending lock agents to 20 Xijiang ship locks

Source: Dangdai Guangxi · 2026-08-24
Summary

The Western New Land-Sea Corridor smart waterway model was released at Beibu Gulf Port Group on 24 August after a joint build by five organisations led by the Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering. Its ship-lock scheduling agent was piloted at the four locks of Xijiang's Changzhou hub and extended to 20 locks across 13 cascades; the port-group agent runs at Qinzhou and five group terminals. Plans now take minutes.

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