On April 12, SINOTRUK put into use the world’s first unmanned electric truck in Tianjin Port, marking the important step forward for the unmanned L4 electric truck to move from the conceptual phase to commercial use.

The journalist saw that, without human intervention, the unmanned electric vehicle, equipped with laser radar, HD camera and intelligent calculation unit, made the designated movements including road driving, accurate parking, container loading/unloading and response to barriers. It realized the whole-process automatic driving and transportation ranging from container handling to storage yard.

According to Mr. Zhu Lianyi, the Vice Director of Technology & Telecom Department, Tianjin Port (Group) Co., Ltd., the success of trial operations not only marks China has made new breakthroughs of intelligent driving of unmanned electric truck in port working conditions. It also provides the feasible solutions to solving the problem of automatic transportation in container dock. Moreover, it makes positive attempts to promote innovative development of green and smart logistics in China.