2018 Terminal Intelligent Solution Forum was held in Bangkok Thailand by ZPMC on November 7th and more than 200 persons of 80 terminal operators in the globe were present at the Forum. On the Forum, ZPMC released the unmanned straddle carrier of a new generation, intelligent container truck system solution and UAV tour inspection system. It also shared the deep integration and innovation of Internet of Things, big data, cloud platform and artificial intelligence in the port industry with partners.
The 2-day Forum was intended to make common discussion on the AI terminal solution for the development of ports in the future. ZPMC would promote the intelligent construction of terminals with wisdom and strength of customers and partners in the world.
Zhu Lianyu, Secretary and Chairman of ZPMC, expressed welcome to guests in the opening address and made review on the development of the Company in the past year. He appointed that AI would be used in ports and terminals gradually at present, enabling every fields of ports as a new engine to promote the intelligent port construction of the whole globe. Zhu made three initiatives on the development in the future, namely, increasing promotion of the upgrading of the global terminal systems with the best use of Internet of Things, bid data, cloud platform and AI to meet the requirements of large vessels, energy saving and environment protection as well as intelligent automation; mutual promotion of establishing technical standard system of the global ports, terminals and equipment as well as scientific, standard and efficient management on the terminal operation in the world; making the Forum the globally leading cooperation and exchange platform for intelligent terminals to provide Zhenhua Program and industry intelligence for the development difficulties of terminals in the world.
Huang Qingfeng, President and Vice-secretary of ZPMC, expressed in the banquet speech that the Forum was quite meaningful, on which industrial elites and experts shared overall development achievements with unique understanding and foresight and sagacity, made the promising blueprint for intelligent terminal construction, inspiring new thoughts of ZPMC and providing new direction and ideas for the global port development. He thought the future world would be intelligent, cooperative and shareable and wished ZPMC would be the community of common future in the strategy and capital with partners in the world. ZPMC would adhere to the development strategy called as one body and two wings and establish the community of common future with more partners on the basis of advantages of capital and brand, realizing the advantage complementation and sharing the development achievements, thus, making contribution to the development of intelligent ports.
Zhangjian, Vice-president of ZPMC, made the theme speech on promoting the construction of intelligent terminals with all wisdom and strength during the Forum. Related persons in responsible of ZPMC Terminuxus, SAP and Maersk shared on Terminexus integrated spare parts service.
Three sub-forums were held during the Forum, namely ZPMC Care+, New Upgrading of Horizontal Transportation System and Intelligent Upgrading Solution for Traditional Terminals. ZPMC shared the new achievements on terminal intelligent solution, including multiple automation systems and solutions of ZPMC Care service, AGV technique, unmanned driving technique of straddle carriers, intelligent storage yards, simulation planning, port intelligent energy, Internet of Things of ports, UAV tour inspection, intelligent truck fleet control system, equipment state intelligent monitoring and STS automation.
Recently, ZPMC has been transferring from a single equipment supplier to a system integration general contractor and from a traditional port machinery manufacturer to a supplier of modern intelligent terminal integration solution. ZPMC held the first forum in Shanghai on November 7th last year and has signed contracts with Adani Automatic Terminal of India and phase II of Qingdao Automatic Terminal. ZPMC, adhering to the idea of focusing on users' requirements and creating maximum value for customers, has been promoting the construction of intelligent terminals in the new AI technical revolution on the basis of providing the one-stop solution on terminal simulation planning, port machinery, system integration and operation maintenance.