Huawei to work with autonomous truck startup for smart port logistics business

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On Jan. 17, Huawei and Trunk, a Chinese autonomous truck startup, entered into a partnership for the R&D and market promotion of the products related to smart port.

The signing of the agreement will further deepen the partnership after a long-time collaboration between the two companies in smart port field, said Trunk. They will co-work on developing and validating benchmark intelligent driving solutions, and expanding market.

Huawei, Trunk sigining agreement; photo credit: Trunk

The first smart port project co-developed by Huawei and Trunk was unveiled at the same time. At the Beijiang Port Area of Tianjin Port, a self-driving truck equipped with Huawei's MDC (Mobile Data Center) intelligent driving computing platform successfully carried out a whole-vessel operation under the uniform instruction delivered by TOS (terminal operating system). It completed many specific actions such as route planning, precise parking and obstacle response in the absence of human intervention.

Trunk's autonomous truck; photo credit: Trunk

As an autonomous trucking solution provider, Trunk has been vigorously pushing ahead with the commercial usage of its technologies in port logistics area.

On Nov. 2, 2020, Truck announced it had handed over 13 autonomous trucks to Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, hitting a record-high speed in the volume production of self-driving trucks.

Last month, the startup inked an agreement with WorldEx, China's leading integrated logistics service provider, to team up on building an industrial cooperation platform for smart port logistics business, and promoting the applications of relevant new technologies using WorldEx’s intelligent logistics information system and Trunk's smart driving & transport systems.