Recently, the 2026 Highlander Solid-State Radar Product Special Promotion Event, themed "Solid-State Navigation · Smart Vision Across All Waters," was successfully held at the Yuanzhou Phoenix Villa in Taizhou. The event targeted shipowners, shipping companies, ship design institutes, and maritime ancillary service providers across Taizhou and the eastern Zhejiang region. It showcased Highlander's self-developed core technologies for marine solid-state radar and its integrated navigation and communication solutions, focusing on the pain points of nearshore navigational safety and leveraging domestically produced, hard-core equipment to help the shipping industry reduce costs, boost efficiency, and upgrade intelligently.

The promotion event brought together over thirty leading local enterprises in shipping, ship design, and communication-and-navigation (CnN) support — including Zhejiang Xiehai, Dachen Shipping, Changchang Shipping, Milestone, Taizhou Ligong Design Institute, Xingyang Shipping, and Zhouling Communication & Navigation — with nearly 50 industry guests, including company executives, veteran shipowners, and shipowner supervisors, gathering on-site to exchange new ideas on upgrading communication and navigation equipment for nearshore and oceangoing vessels.

After the event officially began, the host took the stage first to deliver a welcome address. Drawing on the realities of the eastern Zhejiang nearshore shipping lanes — congested waterways, frequent fog, and rough seas — the host analyzed the shared industry challenges of traditional magnetron radar: large detection blind spots, susceptibility to wear, and high maintenance costs, then shared insights around the core value proposition of Highlander's solid-state radar. Following this, Mr. Chen, a representative of Highlander, took the stage to systematically introduce the company's deep technical expertise accumulated over years in the marine communication and navigation field, its full-industry-chain R&D capabilities, and its globalized service footprint. He also articulated a long-term vision of deepening Highlander's presence in the Taizhou shipping market and continuously providing highly reliable, domestically produced marine navigation equipment for local ship enterprises.

During the core product presentation, technical experts provided an in-depth breakdown of the principles behind solid-state radar technology. Using live-action video and data charts, they offered an intuitive comparison of detection performance between traditional radar and Highlander's solid-state radar: Highlander's products eliminate the wear-prone magnetron components and are equipped with a proprietary sea clutter suppression algorithm, enabling precise capture of small boats, small buoys, and similar targets even under adverse conditions such as heavy fog and rough seas. This eliminates near-range detection blind spots and significantly reduces the risk of ship collisions and scrapes. The entire unit offers a longer service life and an extremely low failure rate, reducing from the source the high operational costs associated with frequent component replacement and high-altitude maintenance. At the same time, it can seamlessly integrate with a full suite of navigational equipment including GPS, AIS, and ECDIS electronic chart systems, making it suitable for new builds and retrofit projects across fishing vessels, nearshore cargo ships, engineering vessels, and other vessel types.

The event also featured live demonstrations of the solid-state radar's multi-target tracking and real-time imaging under harsh sea conditions, combined with real deployment cases from vessels across multiple locations nationwide, giving attending shipowners a direct feel for the product's all-weather, high-precision detection advantages. At the close of the presentation, Highlander's service department introduced the full-lifecycle after-sales support system, further underscoring the benefits of partnership.

The interactive Q&A session was met with enthusiastic engagement. Shipowners and CnN vendors actively raised practical questions on equipment installation, retrofit compatibility, after-sales maintenance, and procurement pricing. The technical and sales teams provided thorough, item-by-item responses while simultaneously collecting customers' genuine technical requirements and procurement budget ranges, laying the groundwork for precise follow-up collaboration. The event concluded with a group photo of all attendees.

After the meeting, Highlander hosted a networking dinner, creating a relaxed platform for relationship-building. Attendees freely exchanged views on market conditions and vessel equipment upgrade experiences, and explored the collaborative potential for deploying domestically produced solid-state radar in practice.

This Taizhou special promotion event was precisely anchored in the real-world usage scenarios of eastern Zhejiang's nearshore shipping, directly addressing the core pain points of marine communication and navigation. It fully demonstrated Highlander's solid-state radar's comprehensive advantages in safety, durability, low cost, and intelligent operation. Following the event, the sales and marketing department will promptly follow up with attending customers and track the expressions of interest collected during the event. Looking ahead, Highlander will continue to iterate on its marine solid-state radar and its series of navigational communication equipment, and will keep advancing into key coastal shipping markets such as Taizhou, Ningbo, and Zhoushan — safeguarding vessel navigational safety at sea with self-developed, domestically produced intelligent marine equipment, and supporting the high-quality, intelligent development of the eastern Zhejiang shipping industry.