New-Generation Productivity | HIRI FUTURE Successfully Overcomes the Challenge of Fully Automating the Four-Rope Anti-Sway Tire-Gantry Crane

Release time:

2025-10-04

New-quality productive forces

HIRI takes the lead in intelligence.

HIRI FUTURE takes the lead in overcoming challenges in the smart port industry.

The Automation Challenge of Four-Strand Non-Swaying Spreader Rubber-Tyred Gantry Cranes

Maintaining industry leadership with outstanding anti-rolling performance and efficiency.

Project Name

Suzhou Modern Container Terminal Co., Ltd. Tire-Gantry Crane Fully Automated Retrofit Project

Difficulties in renovation

Four-rope Spreader, and does not have anti-sway function

Project Highlights

1. Overcoming the challenge of automating four-rope, anti-sway Spreader gantry cranes

HIRI FUTURE has taken the lead in overcoming a long-standing industry challenge in the smart port sector—the anti-sway function of spreaders is the foundation for achieving automation. Among them, automated retrofitting of rubber-tired gantry cranes equipped with eight-rope spreaders and featuring anti-sway functionality poses the lowest difficulty, while automated retrofitting of rubber-tired gantry cranes equipped with four-rope spreaders and lacking anti-sway functionality presents the highest difficulty.

2. Maintain industry leadership with outstanding anti-rolling performance.
By employing a two-stage intelligent control approach—open-loop and closed-loop—ensure that the Spreader moves from its current position to the target position, with its swing amplitude within one oscillation cycle not exceeding ±5 cm.

3. Achieve a dynamic grab-and-place box effect with anthropomorphic manipulation.
During the process of picking up and placing containers, the Spreader uses AI machine learning to simulate human operations, comprehensively analyzing the spreader's longitudinal swing amplitude, time cycle, and landing position to achieve a dynamic container-handling effect that mimics human operation, significantly improving the efficiency of automated container handling.

4. The automation efficiency metric outperforms the average level of manual operations.
Through repeated testing under various operating conditions, with multiple container types and different chassis configurations over an extended period, the average time from when the large vehicle reaches the work position to when the container is successfully placed onto the chassis or in the yard is 135 seconds. The efficiency metric exceeds 26 moves per hour, surpassing the average level achieved by manual operations.

As of September 2025, HIRI FUTURE’s intelligent products have been deployed in over 70 large-scale ports both domestically and internationally. Domestically, they cover ports such as Tianjin Port, Ningbo Port, Guangzhou Port, Xiamen Port, and Beibu Gulf Port in Guangxi. Internationally, they have been implemented at key ports including those in Brazil, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong—totaling more than 3,000 sets—and HIRI FUTURE boasts industry-leading global service capabilities.

Fujian Electronic Port

Fujian Electronic Port Co., Ltd. is a leading high-tech enterprise in China's port sector, specializing in the application of artificial intelligence. Its brand, “HIRI FUTURE,” is a pioneer in AI products and solutions for the port industry. The company focuses on technological innovation that integrates algorithm research in the field of artificial intelligence with software and hardware development, providing ports with comprehensive solutions covering automation of port machinery and equipment, intelligent security in port areas, intelligent port processes, and scientific optimization of production and operations.

Innovative strength

The company is a key high-tech enterprise receiving provincial-level support and has published over 20 cutting-edge academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence. It has accumulated more than 50 invention patents and software copyrights in the field of AI-powered port applications, and has successfully developed over 30 intelligent port products.

Professional R&D team

Our company team has over 100 members, with product design and R&D personnel accounting for more than 80%. Most of our team members hold master’s degrees or higher from 985 universities, and we have several staff with over 10 years of experience in port project management.

Global service capabilities

The company’s intelligent products have been deployed in multiple large-scale ports, with nearly 3,000 sets of port-intelligent products already implemented. The company boasts extensive practical experience in the field of terminal intelligence.

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