Autonomous Trucks
A newly-built smart port zone with three berths, located close by the manless operation zone of the port, will soon be put into use. Chu said that the new port zone will save energy by 20 percent and cut operating costs by 25 percent. “The rainbow-colored port zone will become a new beautiful scenery.”OLD PORT, NEW AMBITIONThe sea transportation of Tianjin Port dates back more than 1,000 years to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when grains were shipped via the port to the northern border army. Tianjin Port serves the megacities of Beijing and Tianjin, as well as the emerging Xiong’an New Area in Hebei. Cheng Zeming, the son of truck driver Cheng Weidong, is fascinated with the new autonomous driving container cranes at Tianjin Port.