China Focus: China's shipping industry propels shift toward intelligence
BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Scenes once only seen in science fiction -- ships plotting routes autonomously, identifying obstacles in real time, and docking at ports with fully automated cranes -- are quickly becoming the new normal in China's maritime industry.
Driven by a surge in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, the world's largest shipping nation is actively pivoting toward "smart shipping," which ex