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Automated container terminal at Shanghai’s Yangshan Port, with red SIPG gantry cranes handling containers above transport vehicles
Maritime Industry

Shanghai wants AI to run more than its container terminals

Shanghai port AI ambitions extend beyond automated terminals to cargo coordination, inland transport and data governance, raising questions about efficiency, technological autonomy and competition between global ports

Conceptual illustration of a container ship crossing the ocean, its wake transforming into a flowing ribbon entering a black cube, symbolising AI’s growing control over maritime knowledge

AI and the battle for shipping’s knowledge

Artificial intelligence promises to transform shipping. But as algorithms absorb decades of maritime expertise, a more consequential battle is emerging over who controls the knowledge that gives companies their competitive edge

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