China's Ministry of Transport has issued guidance on AI application scenarios in
the water-transport sector, directing development of AI-based safety management
systems that leverage knowledge graphs, large language models (LLMs) and process
automation for automated compliance checks, autonomous hazard detection and
online personalized training to raise port safety controls. The guidance targets
high-risk scenarios — human–machine joint operations, ship–shore hazardous-goods
handling, hot work and confined-space operations, and severe-weather operations
— and mandates scenario-based risk simulation and quantitative assessment models
integrating video recognition, multi-source data collection and pervasive
intelligent sensing to enable early risk identification, dynamic monitoring,
intelligent analysis and automated warnings.
