On December 4th, the “AI Risk Control Platform for Dangerous Goods in Foreign Trade Containers on Ships at Shanghai Port” (hereinafter referred to as the “Platform”), developed by the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, was officially launched at the 5th Intelligent Shipping Development Conference themed “A New Era, Great Navigation, and the Dream of a Maritime Power”. At the event, representatives from the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, the Pudong New Area Commerce Commission, the Pudong Maritime Safety Administration, and Shanghai E-Port International Co., Ltd. jointly participated in the Platform’s launch ceremony.
Ensuring the safe transport of dangerous goods on ships has always been a key and difficult challenge in maritime regulatory work. Due to the enclosed nature of containers, some shippers, for their own interests, frequently misdeclare or conceal dangerous goods, posing a constant threat to shipping safety and urban security.
The Platform launched this time is an outstanding example of AI empowering maritime regulation. It was developed by the Pudong Maritime Safety Administration in response to the deployment requirements of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, in collaboration with Shanghai E-Port International Co., Ltd. The Platform incorporates AI technologies, integrating natural language processing, machine learning, and other functions to form a new generation of intelligent risk control models. These models are built upon databases such as the “Product Name Database,” “Commodity Code Database,” and “Historical Enforcement Data,” and use real-time data from maritime and port operations to capture suspected dangerous goods from multiple dimensions, actively pushing risk warnings to law enforcement personnel.
It is reported that the intelligent risk control model has conducted in-depth learning on the regulatory information of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration over the years, thus being able to quickly adapt to the changing characteristics of hazardous goods risks, solving the drawbacks of traditional regulatory platforms that cannot adapt to complex situations and cannot upgrade automatically. At present, the platform is capable of analyzing more than one million standard containers per month and can achieve “instant checks” in multiple regulatory scenarios such as “misdeclaration and concealment of hazardous goods, abnormal packaging of dangerous chemicals, and abnormal VGM data reporting.”
“The platform has established a scientific and quantitative risk assessment mechanism, continuously improving the effectiveness of the risk control model. Through comprehensive judgment logic, it categorizes suspicious containers into three risk levels: high, medium, and low, achieving graded risk control,” said Xie Xin, director of the Department of Pollution Prevention and Response of Pudong Maritime Safety Administration. Since its launch, the platform has achieved a detection rate of over 80% for high-risk containers, effectively assisting the maritime authorities in safeguarding the bottom line of major risks.
A person in charge of the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration indicated that the introduction of the artificial intelligence risk control platform will greatly enhance the safety level of the port, effectively combat illegal acts such as misdeclaration and concealment, and safeguard the safe export of China’s “new three” goods. It will also inject new vitality into the continuous prosperity of the city and the steady growth of the economy.
Source from: China Transport News